<story><title>The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2017/07/25/the-end-of-arduino-101-intel-leaves-maker-market/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wiremine</author><text>I work on IoT projects professionally, and we see a large gap between makers-grade hardware and production-quality systems. Every week we talk with startups and enterprise customers who start off on something like an Arduino, only to hit a wall because there is no good way to take it to production.&lt;p&gt;IMHO, the market is ripe for a hardware&amp;#x2F;software platform that bridges the ease of Arduino with a path to production. A bunch of the silicon vendors are in this space, but they offer weak solutions, and things like AWS IoT are really bad on the hardware side.</text></comment>
<story><title>The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2017/07/25/the-end-of-arduino-101-intel-leaves-maker-market/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elijahparker</author><text>As someone who spent a bit of time trying to start a project based on the Edison, the most frustrating thing was the amount of bugs and the lack of documentation to be able to do anything about it myself, leaving me hopelessly waiting for them to release fixes.&lt;p&gt;For example, after several months of terribly slow and buggy SPI and no fix over multiple releases, I finally switched to ARM and am very glad I did. Intel did finally fix the SPI issue about 9 months after it was first reported.&lt;p&gt;With ARM, I had plenty of issues and challenges, but had the documentation and resources I needed to be able to fix things, as well as a better support community.&lt;p&gt;One of the key issues in the Intel support communities was a growing  lack of trust, now confirmed by Intel dropping out. It takes a big commitment to really understand a system, and the nice thing about ARM is that the community goes beyond a single company, so a company dropping out is not as significant as in this case with Intel.</text></comment>