From an official arduino seller in Belgium I bought an arduino due.
I have never seen another arduino with these 'greyish' looking headers.
Is this normal?
thank you!
That board has the company name "arduino.org". You are posting on a web site of "arduino.cc".
Right now the official board in EU would be labeled "Genuino". Whether or not that board is authentic is the subject of a lawsuit currently in process.
Oh I see, I apologize for posting in the wrong place..it's confusing though,
the shop I bought it from is mentioned on arduino.cc...
Understood. Arduino is open source, hardware and software, so any color is possible.
Your Due will probably work fine and a reputable dealer will support a warranty. You may not be able to get an authentic arduino.cc product in your region, for now, and some dealers treat their stock of .cc and .org products as interchangeable parts.
This is clumsy of you to ask about the beloved brother became enemy.
But you do not have to apologize for being aware.
Your Due will probably work fine
Your DUE is exactly the same as if it were arduino USA.
Before Arduino split, All official DUE **were manufactured by SMART-**PROJECT Italy, now Arduino SRL,
Everyone on this forum say they were the only official and praised them as the best in the world.
The same today say that they are copies, and suppose they could not function.
I can not understand as much bad faith from people, who are able to think and have their own ideas, that overnight go from absolute admiration to absolute hatred.
It is normal that the two Arduino to fight each other.
But customers do not have to outbid: they can buy where they want.
Many who systematically denigrate Arduino Italy does not buy to Arduino USA, but buy on Ebay, for me it's hypocrisy.
Arduino / Genuino
Today :
- Arduino USA can use the name Arduino only in the USA. Everywhere else it uses the name Genuino.
- Arduino Italy has the property of Arduino name everywhere except in the USA
68tjs:
Everyone on this forum say ...
I do not see anywhere in this thread anything about Arduino SRL being an enemy or display of any animosity, except perhaps in your reply. I think the huge majority of people just think the 2 companies are simply 2 different suppliers of Arduinos (which they are). Not much hatred or praise one way or the other in the forums. When getting down to the details of colors of the board components or markings, it may be useful to point out there are 2 different Arduino companies, as not everybody has noticed. Both of the companies are probably fairly small suppliers compared to all the other clone and derivative manufacturers which are turning out boards by the thousands (or perhaps millions).
Hello N871,
This gets complicated because the hardware design is "open source". You or I are within our rights to download the "Eagle" files, get the boards made, and buy and install the parts by hand on the board. At retail prices for small quantities this would probably cost more than the price of a genuine assembled board, and the circuit board might be purple rather than blue, and there might not be any silk-screen printing on the board.
There are in circulation "counterfeit" boards made by fly-at-night companies that underprice the genuine Arduino products and also counterfeit the artwork and name of the board. The quality of these is unknown, and the lower price may come from using inferior or "diverted" parts. It doesn't seem possible to avoid them. Your best assurance is to buy from a reliable source.
I see, thanks for the many replies.
I just checked the packaging of mij arduino.cc's and arduino.org's and there are just the same.
Same box, booklet, stickers,...price, interesting..