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Defining open hardware - LWN.net lwn.net LWN.net Oct 18, 2023 13 facts

claimArduino is an open-hardware project that offers microcontroller boards with an accompanying open-source development environment.

quoteArduino's introduction page previously stated: "All Arduino boards are completely open-source, empowering users to build them independently and eventually adapt them to their particular needs."

claimArduino founders Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, David Mellis, and Tom Igoe endorsed and helped create the Open Source Hardware (OSHW) definition.

claimArduino makes electronic schematics and design files for its boards available under the CC-BY-SA license, which permits the recreation of the boards but prohibits the use of the trademarked 'Arduino' name.

claimThe Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) list of certified open-source hardware does not contain any official Arduino boards.

claimArduino Pro hardware, such as the Portenta H7, is released without the design files necessary for manufacturing, as noted by Adafruit in a 2021 blog post.

quoteArduino's current introduction page states: "The plans of the Arduino boards are published under a Creative Commons license, so experienced circuit designers can make their own version of the module, extending it and improving it."

claimRecent non-Pro Arduino boards, including the Arduino Nano ESP32 and the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi, do not mention "open" in their product pages or documentation.

claimArduino plays a significant role in the open hardware space through both its hardware and its software ecosystem.

claimAlessandro Ranellucci of Arduino stated that the company restricts design files for the Arduino Pro line to "prevent counterfeiters from blindly downloading a file and manufacturing it without any R&D effort or contribution to the community."

claimArduino releases its "products for makers" as open-source hardware (though not OSHWA-certified), but releases its Pro line boards, such as the Portenta C33 and Portenta X8, without design files.

accountAdafruit requested that Arduino certify its boards with the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA), but Arduino declined the request.

claimDevelopers who wish to build upon OSHWA-certified hardware have multiple alternatives to Arduino boards available to them.

Open Source Hardware - Devopedia devopedia.org Devopedia Jun 3, 2019 3 facts

claimArduino and its add-on boards called shields, as well as Raspberry Pi and its add-on boards called hats, are examples of successful ecosystems built on open designs.

claimSuccessful Open Source Hardware projects in 2013 included Arduino, Raspberry Pi, OpenROV, DIY Drones, LittleBits, Makerbot Replicator 2, Lasersaur, Robo3D, and Console II.

claimProjects that use the CC BY-SA license include Arduino, mBed HDK, BeagleBoard, Particule (formerly Spark), and Tessel.

Open-source hardware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia smoothieware.github.io Smoothieware Apr 15, 2016 3 facts

claimArduino has registered its name as a trademark, which allows the company to distinguish its products by preventing other manufacturers from using the Arduino name on their designs.

claimThe Arduino electronics prototyping platform and the Raspberry Pi are examples of specific open-source electronic components provided by non-profit organizations and companies.

accountOpen-source hardware activity experienced a resurgence in the mid-2000s due to the emergence of projects and companies such as OpenCores, RepRap (3D printing), Arduino, Adafruit, and SparkFun.

Open Hardware Licenses - P2P Foundation Wiki wiki.p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation Jun 17, 2015 3 facts

accountThe Arduino project, which is open source, uses trademarks to restrict the use of the name 'Arduino' to the original team, requiring clones to clearly distinguish themselves from the original product through attribution and trademark compliance.

quoteArduino and Freeduino developers acknowledge that Creative Commons licenses do not apply to physical production, stating: 'You don’t need to give attribution on the physical products that you might make with these files, as copyright in general, and CC2.5 in particular, do not apply to physical objects.'

claimArduino, Freeduino, Beagle Board, MultiMachine, and Openmoko utilize the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license for their hardware designs.

Open-source hardware - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia 3 facts

claimCompanies such as Sparkfun, Adafruit, and Seeed provide a large variety of open-source electronics, while organizations like the Arduino project provide specific open-source electronic prototyping platforms.

claimArduino utilizes a trademark-based business model where third parties may manufacture products based on Arduino designs, but they are prohibited from labeling those products as 'Arduino products'.

referenceChih-Lin Chen, Ting-Ru Chen, Shih-Hao Chiu, and Pawel L. Urban created a dual robotic arm 'production line' mass spectrometry assay system guided by multiple Arduino-type microcontrollers, published in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical in 2017.

What's the definition of "Open Source Hardware?" - WIRED wired.com Wired Jul 16, 2010 1 fact

accountOSHW Draft Definition 0.3 is endorsed by a group of individuals and organizations including David A. Mellis (MIT Media Lab and Arduino), Limor Fried (Adafruit Industries), Phillip Torrone (Make and Adafruit Industries), Leah Buechley (MIT Media Lab), Chris Anderson (Wired and DIY Drones), Nathan Seidle (SparkFun Electronics), Alicia Gibb (Bug Labs), Massimo Banzi (Arduino), Tom Igoe (Arduino, ITP/NYU), Zach Smith (MakerBot Industries), Bre Pettis (MakerBot Industries), Andrew "bunnie" Huang (bunniestudios), Becky Stern (MAKE), Windell Oskay (Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories), John Wilbanks (Creative Commons), Jonathan Kuniholm (Open Prosthetics Project/Shared Design Alliance), Ayah Bdeir (littleBits.cc/Eyebeam/Creative Commons), David Ford (Blue Labs), Vitorino Ramos (LaSEEB - Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering Lab, IST, Technical University of Lisbon), Charles Gantt (The Makers Workbench), Dave Hrynkiw (Solarbotics Ltd. / HVW Technologies), Raúl C Oviedo (Ayuda Electronica Company), Stephen Eaton (Strobotics), Brent Picasso (Autosport Labs), Will Pickering (FunGizmos), Ronen Kadushin (Open Design), and Aaron Nielsen (.:oomlout:).

Open Source Hardware Definition - P2P Foundation Wiki wiki.p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation Feb 9, 2019 1 fact

perspectiveBunnie Huang prefers PDF files over Eagle files for open source hardware documentation because he does not use or have the Eagle software installed, despite Eagle being a popular interchange format in the Arduino community.