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“Wiring’s Reach by 2005” graphic, provided by Collin Reisdorf
Arduino is where it all begins before the flourishing of various types of boards since 2005.
Under an open-source environment, a community of engineers, hackers, and innovative people, all came together to build the first Arduino board called Arduino Serial in 2005.
The very first Arduino board released (in 2006) was the Arduino Serial which didn't even have a USB port, but (as the name implies) had an older, Serial port for communicating with the chip.
Years later, in 2007, Tom Igoe released the first edition of the “Making Things Talk” book published by O’Reilly3, which presents the use of both Wiring and Arduino.
Arduino itself celebrated this milestone back in 2007, with a predecessor to the UNO called the Arduino Diecimila, meaning “ten thousand”. Interestingly enough, this was also the board that introduced automatic software resets when uploading a sketch, so you no longer had to press a reset button.
The LilyPad Snap Simple is so easy to use that it doesn't require any soldering. It used the Atmega168 chip which was the microcontroller used on the Arduino boards of that time, however, it was then updated in 2009 with the Atmega328.
2010 saw the release of the Arduino Uno, a culmination of 4 years of development, iterations, and hardware changes.
It was the new Arduino. It wasn’t just the Arduino UNO that was unveiled at the Maker Faire New York in 2010.
Whilst wearables were around then, it wasn't until post-2011 that the idea of wearables really took off.
Massimo going to Ted Talk – candid (2012-08-06)
Three new LilyPad boards were released in 2012: LilyPad USB, LilyPad Simple, and LilyPad Simple Snap.
In a 2013 interview by Dale Dougherty with Massimo Banzi, once again the story changes:
A 2014 article from Circuits Today has a very confusing opening:
Boards that share common form factor with female headers and sizes with the Arduino Uno are ideal for those looking to add IoT functionality to an existing project and move to something that is still familiar to them. It didn't really take off though, and there was a lull in the IoT development until 2016 where a spree of IoT boards was released: MKRZero, MKR1000, Uno Wi-Fi, and then the Primo and MRKFox this year.
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Arduino competitors
| Company Name | Founded Date | Revenue | Employee Size | Job Openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Khronos Group | 2000 | $1.8M | 12 | - |
| Orbees Medical | 2007 | $340,000 | 5 | - |
| satis&fy, USA | 1993 | $6.8M | 40 | - |
| Vii | - | $1.3M | 50 | - |
| Asian Neighborhood Design | 1973 | $5.0M | 30 | - |
| Engineering Economics | 1984 | $8.4M | 83 | 14 |
| NOAO | - | $800,000 | 15 | - |
| DiscoverE | 2002 | $120,000 | 3 | - |
| GVI DC | 1983 | $284.9K | 5 | - |
| Global Ties U.S. | 1961 | $10.0M | 21 | - |
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