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State of Arduino by Massimo Banzi at Maker Faire B.A. 2019

jomoenginer

This was posted by Make where Massimo Banzi from Arduino gave a State of Arduino speech at the recent Maker Faire Bay Area 2019. 

 

Some highlights I pulled out of the speech.

  • 30M downloads of the Arduino IDE per year but less purchased licensed products.
  • New Head of Open Source and Communities - Badly needed
  • Working closer with the Open Source Communities
  • Donating $50,000 to support Open Source projects
  • Intro to the new Re-imagined Nano line including some with multiple sensors
  • Arduino IoT Cloud updates
    • New features including SIM support for the MKR GSM 1400

            https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/05/21/arduino-sim-the-new-cellular-connectivity-service-for-the-arduino-iot-cloud/

    • Maps
  • Arduino Science Kit Physics Lab
  • Arduino CTC GO!
    • STEM Program for 14 to 17 year olds.
  • More work on FPGA support including FPGA IDE

 

I'm sure I missed some but it was quite informative

 

  • Thanks for sharing Jon.

     

    Treated myself to an extended coffee break (30 mins) while watching this. It's pretty good and as you say informative.

     

    From my perspective I picked out these additional points:

    • Started with a view on what makes Arduino IDE special (idea was to maintain just 6 or 7 buttons) despite pull for feature creep
    • Philosophy throughout is "Keep it Simple"
    • He sees great value in the "patron model" hence contributing back to the community and encouraging others to do the same - is he aware of patreon.com, I wonder image
    • As part of their contributions they are also now members and supporting RISC V (hardware architecture) foundation
    • Continues to build on "Arduino Core API" (CHAINSAW) which looks pretty good and I think it opens up options to use other IDE's. Also encouraging other hardware architectures to pursue similar approach (and they're doing the same) to develop their own core API framework
    • As part of intro to Nano line he mentioned an integrated sensor option for the BLE version and revealed something about a machine learning option
    • Loved the iterative approach to developing a new IDE for FPGA's (we tried something then threw it away and tried something new etc.). What he revealed looked pretty awesome - drag n drop blocks etc.
    • Then, LOL - although it will be pretty cool image, he mentioned at the end of talk the new Arduino IDE 2.0, which will have a "PRO" button. Looks like all the tugging for new features is about to take place as we will be given a new "complicated" PRO IDE option with debugging features and the rest...

  • Thanks, I would have missed this.

     

    I have to admit that I use the Arduino IDE a lot.  Mostly for ESP boards and I recently used it for an Spresense board.  And even for Arduinos image.

     

    Lots of nice improvements on the horizon.  I like the new “pro” features for the IDE and the FPGA interface looks great.

     

    I’ll need to get some of the new Nano IOT boards to try.

  • I subscribe to a few newsletters. This popped up earlier today and thought wow, nice to see Massimo's ideas being implemented for this new low cost RISC-V dev board...

     

    From SeeedStudio... "In April, we added the full ArduinoCore-API interface to support Arduino IDE, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and other development environments in so that all k210-based development boards can run Grove Arduino Library. "