Diecimila (Ten Thousand)
Diecimila in italian means “ten thousand” and this marks a moment I would never thought we would reach. Over ten thousand Arduino USB boards have been sold by our manufacturer. It’s a great success and we have to thank all the users who have liked our work and supported us from the beginning.
Arduino is an interesting experiment in the world of open source because we are making an open source software combined with a piece of hardware released under a Creative Commons license. The sales of the hardware have been used to manufacture more hardware and, while adding more and more features to the board, keeping the price more or less the same.
You can see some pictures of the different boards and prototypes we made in this flickr set
and read a bit more about the history in this short paper we presented at the Alt.Chi conference.
Well, thanks to all of you Arduino supporters, it’s a great experience and we want to keep bringing out new ideas and products to make it easier and cheaper for you to work with electronics.
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congratulations! although i haven’t had much time to fiddle around with them, i love my two NG boards i got a few months ago.
Congratulations! If only I could find a use for one I’d be 10,001.
Congratulations!
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If you load your Diecimila with Simple Message System
from the archives at arduino.cc, and you use linux,
you should get my package of shell scripts: run
wget http://207.14.167.161/SMS1.tgz
Full IO & PWM control, AD is scaled to mV and
formatted for import to most spreadsheets.