Arduino has become one of the key building blocks of the open hardware movement. Arduino, the platform, is designed to be modular, affordable, and eas

Arduino’s CEO on the Commercial Future of Open-Source Hardware

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2024-09-08 04:30:03

Arduino has become one of the key building blocks of the open hardware movement. Arduino, the platform, is designed to be modular, affordable, and easy for virtually anyone to use. The company behind it has rolled out development boards in droves over the last decade and a half and the software to program them all.

Besides students, tinkerers, and other makers, it’s also widely used by engineers for rapid prototyping of IoT and other electronic projects, with the goal of turning them into commercial products down the line.

“Today’s new generation of engineers grew up building with Arduino,” said Massimo Banzi, Arduino’s co-founder and chairman, when the company announced plans to expand its U.S. operations around a year ago.

But with many of these engineers now moving into high-level engineering and product development roles, CEO Fabio Violante wants to make it as easy as possible for them to take Arduino’s hardware along for the ride.