Open Hardware With Arduino and Retro Restoration
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Arduino ☛ The 2023 Arduino Open Source Report is out
The Arduino community has clearly shown its love for open source too. During 2023, 1,068 new libraries were added (+20% in one year!) and 101 new versions of community board packages were released. On the content side, 205 new open-source tutorials were published on our new Project Hub.
The 2023 Report also includes a ranking of the most active library authors and maintainers, who provide an incredible service to the whole community with their hard work in the name of open source.
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Arduino ☛ Arduino: Open Source Report 2023
The Arduino name designates a company, an open source project, a community.
We’re tens of millions of people sharing a passion for embedded electronics. But we’re also thousands of companies who manufacture boards, shields and accessories, and develop software for them. We’re educators, students, hackers, consultants, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs. In these 18 years we have all been collaborating every day to share knowledge and solutions, building an incredibly vast amount of resources around which an entire industry has grown. As Arduino company, we believe in the values that make this community great: openness, transparency, collaboration, sharing. This yearly report documents our efforts and investments to support the growth of the ecosystem. As you will see in the document, 2023 has been an incredibly busy year in terms of open source development.
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Andrew Hutchings ☛ BBC Master 128 #2: Retro Restoration
I was recently chatting to a local friend about the course I’m setting up to teach local kids BBC BASIC and Logo. He mentioned that he had his brother’s boxed BBC computer in the loft and that he would donate it to me so that I had the final machine needed for the course. I’m going to be helping him with some work on his retro collection in return. What I didn’t realise at the time, was that the machine was a BBC Master 128!