Arduino has positioned itself as an open source electronic prototype development platform, and the software and hardware design materials are fully open, forming a development environment for users to build robots or various electronic projects.
So why do you want to do Arduino, or why do you want to do open source hardware? "Because open source hardware makes it easier for people to develop their own products." Banzi said, "People can now carry out initial prototype development on Arduino or BeagleBone (similar products). Finally, if the design wants mass production, they can also buy the corresponding processor and then use our design in the product. "
The difference between Arduino and raspberry pie
Arduino is a project that Banzi started to do in 2005. In the past 18 months, another similar platform, Raspberry Pie, was extremely popular, but Raspberry Pie did not open its hardware.
Banzi explained the difference between the two: Raspberry Pie allows people to learn programming in the form of PC, while we (BeagleBone and Arduino) provide a complete platform.
BeagleBone and Arduino, two mutually supportive open source hardware platforms.
Banzi often talks about BeagleBone, a similar platform, although there is direct competition between the two companies in business. However, Sakako said that they are very close in concept. Recently, they also jointly developed Arduino Tre, which is expected to be released in early 20 14.
Arduino Tre and BeagleBone Black both use the 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor. Gerald Coley and Jason Kridner, founders of BeagleBoard, helped Banzi's team design Arduino Tre.
Their collaboration on Arduino Tre originated from a discussion-"How to let more users unfamiliar with Linux know the benefits of embedded Linux, which is not limited to students, including designers, artists, sociologists and people without CS/EE background.
Let every project have an Arduino behind it.
At the beginning of Arduino's development, Banzi taught in a design school in northern Italy. The project was launched only because his students didn't have suitable learning hardware.
Arduino's original intention is a very subdivided application scenario, but now its market has been greatly expanded. At present, there are about 654.38+billion official boards in the "outside world", and there will be tens of millions of unofficial devices.
The forest is very big and there will be all kinds of birds. Banzi mentioned that there has been too much publicity about "Arduino compatibility" in the market. The company's website also lists many inferior products under its banner.
But beyond that, the development of Arduino is quite natural. The new products based on ARM and Intel are expanded on the original Arduino Uno.