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Do commercial products use Arduino?
Can Arduino be used in commercial products? Yes, with the following conditions: Physically embedding an Arduino board inside a commercial product does not require you to disclose or open-source any information about its design. You may manufacture and sell the resulting product.
Is Arduino used in real world?
Absolutely not! Arduino has some great strengths that can make your life easier, but those strengths are not what you need if you want to develop a real life product. You are learning how to use Arduino to build your own projects? Check out Arduino For Beginners and learn step by step.
Is Arduino reliable for industry?
Arduino itself is not good for industrial applications due to lack of proper protection & shielding. But it is possible to make industrial-grade AVR-based controllers: You should have shielding, power filtering/regulation/protection, optopairs to drive external things, decent decoupling caps on each digital chip.
Can a Arduino be used in a commercial product?
Using the Arduino core and libraries for the firmware of a commercial product does not require you to release the source code for the firmware. The LGPL does, however, require you to make available object files that allow for the relinking of the firmware against updated versions of the Arduino core and libraries.
Can a commercial Arduino board be open source?
Physically embedding an Arduino board inside a commercial product does not require you to disclose or open-source any information about its design. Deriving the design of a commercial product from the Eagle files for an Arduino board requires you to release the modified files under the same Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.
Is the Arduino board used in real life products?
You can get more than 10 times the performance of an the micro-controller used on an Arduino board, for the same (or lower) price. Also, robustness is really important. The lifespan of an Arduino board is not as high as the lifespan of enterprise level micro-controllers.
Is the source code for Arduino open source?
The source code for the Arduino environment is covered by the GPL, which requires any modifications to be open-sourced under the same license. It does not prevent the sale of derivative software or its inclusion in commercial products. In all cases, the exact requirements are determined by the applicable license.