Chris Green wrote:
Brian Reay wrote:

It is a competitive market. Besides there being no shortage of suppliers
of genuine arduino products and numerous r pi (re)sellers, the Chinese
turn out arduino copies/clones by the container load.

Since one of the main points of Arduino is that the hardware design is
open source there really isn't such a thing as 'genuine' Arduino.


You may care to watch the Julian Ilett video on YouTube where he discusses
the various Arduino originals and clones.


The problem with the €˜open source culture, everyone forgets there is no
such thing as a free lunch.