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he now ubiquitous Arduino sparked

a revolution in digital making

when it was launched in 2005. It’s

gone through a few revisions since

then, but the basic board of the

flagship model (currently the Uno

Rev 3) still retains a similar look and form factor.

It was cheaper and easier to use than any other

embedded platform at the time, and it came from

an organisation committed to making it a great

platform for designers and artists.

Just as Arduino looked like it was about to

achieve world domination, a rift between the

organisation that designed the boards and the

company that manufactured them (at this point

both organisations called themselves Arduino)

erupted into a legal battle that confused customers

and took the team’s attention away from their core

focus of making great hardware and software.

After a tumultuous few years of legal battles,

Arduino emerged united once again at the end of

2017, with a new CEO and new backers (in the form

of ARM Holdings). Since then, they’ve been hard at

work on the hardware and software offerings. Now,

the newly reinvigorated Arduino is set to release a

whole host of new boards and software.

We spoke with new boss Fabio Violante to get the

inside story on these new releases and find out what

Arduino has in store for the future.