Arduino powered by quad-core Qualcomm processor, Linux, and STM32. It’s about time that happened.

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/qualcomm-to-buy-arduino-powering-a-new-era-of-open-hardware/

 

I've had nothing but issues with Qualcomm (and Broadcomm) hardware documentation. My Snapdragon Windows dev kit PC is a brick with zero support.

 

Arduino powered by quad-core Qualcomm processor, Linux, and STM32. It’s about time that happened.

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/qualcomm-to-buy-arduino-powering-a-new-era-of-open-hardware/

Hi,

This smells of vendor takeover. Let's hope it stays friendly.

 

It's fast to get one I ordered today have it by friday

 

Definately pushing hard to move out of the "hobby" class...

 

It's fast to get one I ordered today have it by friday

Hi,

What exactly did you order?
I am really interested to find out.

 

When you say Arduino, I think of ATMEL and Microchip Technology's ATTINY AVR microprocessor chips. They originally needed an external clock oscillator but the newer chips include one internally. The Arduino NANO comes with the ATMEL ATMEGA chip so not quite sure what Qualcomm is doing but I'm thinking Snapdragon?

 

This is going to be a game changer.
Compare:

Arduino UNO R3
16MHz Atmel ATmega328, 32KB flash, 2KB SRAM

Arduino UNO Q
2GHz quad core Arm Cortex-A53 Qualcomm QRB2210, 16GB eMMC, 2GB RAM
160MHz Arm Cortex-M33 STM32U585, 2MB flash, 786KB SRAM

not to mention the connectivity and interfaces, audio, video, WiFi, bluetooth.

 

The arduino uno q they shipping fast uno with its own computer for less then 45 dollars they get cheaper as they go I was going to try there ide out but it don’t work without the board plugged in I been using a lot of pico’s for 4 bucks you can’t beat them this basically a arduino 4 core a53 and pico type micro for io it be cool

 

This is going to be a game changer.
Compare:

Arduino UNO R3
16MHz Atmel ATmega328, 32KB flash, 2KB SRAM

Arduino UNO Q
2GHz quad core Arm Cortex-A53 Qualcomm QRB2210, 16GB eMMC, 2GB RAM
160MHz Arm Cortex-M33 STM32U585, 2MB flash, 786KB SRAM

not to mention the connectivity and interfaces, audio, video, WiFi, bluetooth.

Hi,

I understand 'ai' will become part of this too, for better or worse. That will mean development using 'ai' in our projects if desired.

 

The arduino uno q they shipping fast uno with its own computer for less then 45 dollars they get cheaper as they go I was going to try there ide out but it don’t work without the board plugged in I been using a lot of pico’s for 4 bucks you can’t beat them this basically a arduino 4 core a53 and pico type micro for io it be cool

Yes it all does sound very interesting. Speeds like 2GHz I think.

 

Arduino UNO R3
16MHz Atmel ATmega328, 32KB flash, 2KB SRAM

I still have an Arduino Duemilanove 328P (2009 in Italian).

Never used the Arduino IDE neither its sketch style programming. Straight using the Atmel datasheet and avr-libc and avr-gcc (this approach made me gain more experience with its MCU).

BTW the UNO board was a redesign of the Duemilanove (don't know why this business strategy), which is obviously not comparable to the Q version. The UNO was also obsolete by that time: STM32F4 were released the same year. No way to compete in performance.

 

Well i got my order today and its been lots of fun lol getting the arduino q to even work first off you need a power hub 3 amps or more or wifi will not work good

 

Well i got my order today and its been lots of fun lol getting the arduino q to even work first off you need a power hub 3 amps or more or wifi will not work good

This is good information for future users of that product.

 

Well after getting what i need to use the computer on the arduino q I got a Ugreen USB C malfunction adapter give you 4 ports and hdmi using PD and a 3 amp PD wall adapter.
The thing is very snappy. The things i don't like is it using most of the drive space You only have 3 g left to add apps but I haven't tried a usb drive to see how well that works.
I'm thinking there deb setup would be great on my raspberry 2 zero without the app there using for the onboard MC I would like to do it with just python for the Uc the arduino app lab
is very beta.

 

My first thought after looking at Qualcomm was "Hey, they're trying to compete with R-Pi". Never got around to using the R-PI but it is a bit more than just a uP. Once released R-Pi quickly gained popularity and is still selling strongly.

 

My first thought after looking at Qualcomm was "Hey, they're trying to compete with R-Pi". Never got around to using the R-PI but it is a bit more than just a uP. Once released R-Pi quickly gained popularity and is still selling strongly.

I've been tinkering with them since the first model. It was pretty amazing back then.

 

 

My first thought after looking at Qualcomm was "Hey, they're trying to compete with R-Pi". Never got around to using the R-PI but it is a bit more than just a uP. Once released R-Pi quickly gained popularity and is still selling strongly.

My thoughts are that it could be good for us or bad for us, depending on the present goals they have and especially on their future goals. Financial goals always come first, unfortunately. This pushes us into tradeoffs between money and ethics. Since money comes first, ethics seem to become less and less a part of all the decisions. That puts us into a time frame of when things are better and when things get worse.

 

Definately pushing hard to move out of the "hobby" class...

My thoughts, exactly.
And fairly soon they might decide that the open source model doesn’t satisfy their corporate EBDITA criteria, and start charging a subscription fee for a proprietary IDE.