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So basically the Arduino the Software Company (IDE), and Arduino the hardware supplier broke ties?

I use the ESP8266 which I do believe is an Arduino (Hardware) Killer. However, the Arduino IDE has amazing support for the ESP8266 among other hardware components.

This isn't a bad thing, at least for consumers, since I feel like Arduino (the hardware) is a few cycles behind (eg. Particle, CHIP, bbc micro, pi zero, nodemcu/esp8266... etc)

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I dunno about the ESP8266 being a Arduino killer- it doesn't handle analog very well last I checked.

But as for details over what happened, check this [1]hackaday article.

[1]http://hackaday.com/2015/02/25/arduino-v-arduino/

It has one analog pin, it seems to be very limited, I agree. But you can get an ADC breakout and talk to it via SPI.

But I can buy an ADC that communicates over SPI for like 3 bucks. Then I have two chips, but then also I have a total of like 10 dollars worth of electronics, which is far more capable than a 25 dollar arduino.

Yeah, I pretty much threw all my Arduino gear in the trash after I bought an ESP8266. I kept some Micros just for the analog pins, but I haven't had any use for them since.

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