Mastodawn

Everyone with an Arduino project has, starting as of NOW, six months to look for a replacement.

If you don't start right away, I can point out someone who will be in a lot of pain in a few months.

Believe me...

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i

I know this will play merry hell with the 3d printer and mechanical keyboard scene. Innumerable hardware will die from this takeover.

#arduino #qualcomm

Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI

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acb Oct 7

@masek Who owns Teensy? (It’s a US company, IIRC?) Beyond that, there’s the Raspberry Pi Pico, and possibly some Chinese boards (which may or may not be an issue)

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Pete Prodoehl 🍕Oct 7

@acb I think @PaulStoffregen is still the person behind PJRC (Well, half of PJRC!)

The Teensy boards are great, but often overkill in terms of features and price for what I need. They used to have an LC (Low Cost) board but all their boards now are easily double the price those were.

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Paul Stoffregen

@rasterweb @acb SparkFun is now pretty involved in Teensy since we've partnered with them for manufacturing.

Before March 2025 Robin & I used 2 contract manufacturers, who soldered everything on consignment (we purchased all parts). With hourly workers we hired every Teensy was tested, packaged and shipped from Oregon, USA.

As Teensy grew that became unsustainable for us.

On paper, Robin & I still own Teensy. We still control the tech decisions. But reality is SparkFun deeply involved now.