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Post #1925624

2025-10-07 16:37 UTC

Qualcomm owns Arduino, Hackaday is owned by Siemens My teenage electronics hobby landscape is now owned by the companies that would never supply datasheets to me back then

Replies (5)

  • @arch@floofy.tech 2025-10-07 16:39

    @benjojo Hackaday is owned by Siemens??? Alright :floofWhat:

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  • @maxxcan@mastodon.social 2025-10-07 17:11

    @benjojo ESP32?

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  • @leo@60228.dev 2025-10-07 17:40

    @benjojo huh, siemens owns hackaday?? seems like they really wanted tindie and hackaday was incidental but that's still kind of weird

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  • @fivey@mastodo.neoliber.al 2025-10-07 18:46

    @benjojo it is painfully funny how often this happens. These companies go through phases where they realize they need outreach to students/hobbyists but their corporate structures make it hard to let students/hobbyists have access to their products so instead they do random acquisitions in the hobbyist space which doesn’t actually help much.

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  • @ktims@nonexistent.ca 2025-10-07 18:56

    @benjojo And Raspberry Pi has (always had) a much too close relationship with Broadcom, one of the worst offenders... This is weird though, what does Qualcomm get out of Arduino? It's completely disjoint from their market... Sucks.

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