{"id":219,"date":"2017-12-17T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T23:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2017-12-17T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T23:35:12","slug":"whither-the-arduino-star-otto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.falatic.com\/index.php\/219\/whither-the-arduino-star-otto","title":{"rendered":"Whither the Arduino STAR Otto?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From what I’ve gathered (e.g., from the forums<\/a> as well as the complete lack of information since May) it seems the Arduino STAR Otto is no more.<\/p>\n

It’s too bad, really – Arduino as a product is moribund, focused solely on relatively slow boards and slow processors. Even the Due – once ahead of its time – seems to be in short supply, and still at a high price to pay for a relatively slow clock. The Espressif ESP32 is currently king of the hill in terms of connectivity, raw speed, and even dual cores; the Teensy is making an impressive 180MHz ARM showing with their 3.6 boards; and even STMicro’s own STM32 boards have a friend in STM32Duino.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the boards actually produced by the recently merged Arduino.cc remain slow and overpriced – and mostly out of stock. It’s not clear what’s going on there at this point.<\/p>\n

I had hoped the STAR Otto, for all its flaws (security as an afterthought, and not-quite-open design) would still have been the vanguard of a new era in the Arduino family. Now it appears it will simply be a footnote in a product line that increasingly trails the very ecosystem it inspired.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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