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Connecting the dots: When Qualcomm announced its acquisition of Arduino in October, the move was met with lukewarm enthusiasm. Since then, the UK chip designer has ...

Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chief Analyst & CEO, NAND Research. Qualcomm, a company built on selling chips to companies like Samsung and Apple in volumes of ...

The chipmaker’s acquisition brings its Dragonwing-powered board and new AppLab development environment to a 33 million–strong open-source community. Qualcomm will acquire Arduino, the open-source ...

Smartphone processor and modem maker Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, the Italian company known mainly for its open source ecosystem of microcontrollers and the software that makes them function. In its ...

[ChrisJ7903] has created two Ardiuno programs for reading Victron solar controller telemetry data advertised via BLE. If you’re interested in what it takes to use an ESP32 to sniff Bluetooth Low ...

Pagers may have largely gone out of fashion in the age of the smartphone, but the T-LoRa Pager from LILYGO puts a modern spin on the class communications device. It’s a portable device with a 2.33 ...

Since it began in 2014, Arduino Day has been an annual celebration of creativity, open-source hardware and a thriving community of engineers, developers and makers looking to showcase their latest ...

Billions of Devices at Risk of Hacking & Impersonation Due to Hidden Commands Your email has been sent Billions of devices worldwide rely on a widely used Bluetooth-Wi-Fi chip that contains ...

A hot potato: The ESP32 chip, found in over a billion devices worldwide, contains undocumented vendor-specific commands that could potentially be misused to access device memory and manipulate ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...