I found this article the other day. It is short but it is interesting to see that the "professional" embedded industry is taking notice. http://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2011/02/what-is-arduino/

Arduino's expanding influence

TonyD March 3, 2011, 11:08am 3

I'm a professional embedded system developer and I've been using Arduino for the last 18-months

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