Hi,
Is there any statistics on number of available Arduino libraries ? I tried to search with Google but nothing came up ... I want to mention Arduino in my thesis and need to have some reliable statistics.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Shahab.
Shahab:
Hi,Is there any statistics on number of available Arduino libraries ? I tried to search with Google but nothing came up ... I want to mention Arduino in my thesis and need to have some reliable statistics.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Shahab.
Funny, when I search on "arduino libraries" I get:
About 584,000 results (0.06 seconds)
Lefty
retrolefty:
Funny, when I search on "arduino libraries" I get:
I get 3,100,000 results (0,17 seconds) ... Although it is an indication, but it is not statistics :~
Shahab:
retrolefty:
Funny, when I search on "arduino libraries" I get:I get 3,100,000 results (0,17 seconds) ... Although it is an indication, but it is not statistics :~
Well at least my indication is more useful then your "but nothing came up ..."
Your request for thesis help is similar to a lot of homework request we see and while we can help, you have to do the real work. 
Lefty
Hehe. Yep, but the fact that I am here and trying to find information and coordinate it with the rest of my conclusions is working 
I am trying to prove the fact that an active open source community is an important issue when choosing a development platform in any project.
For this I am bringing numbers of post and members in Arduino Forums. In addition to that I would like to add the number of existing libraries that is a stone hard fact that how active the project is and how much work has been put into it.
I am trying to prove the fact that an active open source community is an important issue when choosing a development platform in any project.
For attracting hobbyists, students and general population I think it's one of the most critical components. For industrial professional, users not as much.
Lefty
retrolefty:
For attracting hobbyists, students and general population I think it's one of the most critical components. For industrial professional, users not as much.Lefty
I agree. I am discussing the academic prototyping.
Shahab:
I would like to add the number of existing libraries that is a stone hard fact that how active the project is and how much work has been put into it.
I seriously doubt you're going to have much success with regards to 'stone hard fact'. A typical side affect of an open source community is that it isn't terribly organized. The libraries available for the Arduino are scattered across the net. You not only have the libraries made available by the Arduino team itself, but you have numerous libraries made available by third parties (most typically in association with some form of Arduino shield that party has created). You've got the popular examples like Sparkfun and Adafruit, but you also have a variety of either smaller team or individual efforts out there as well. There's no central location for all libraries, and as a result there's no hard data on the total number of libraries available.
Carl Sagan could have figured it out.
jraskell:
Shahab:
I would like to add the number of existing libraries that is a stone hard fact that how active the project is and how much work has been put into it.I seriously doubt you're going to have much success with regards to 'stone hard fact'. A typical side affect of an open source community is that it isn't terribly organized. The libraries available for the Arduino are scattered across the net. You not only have the libraries made available by the Arduino team itself, but you have numerous libraries made available by third parties (most typically in association with some form of Arduino shield that party has created). You've got the popular examples like Sparkfun and Adafruit, but you also have a variety of either smaller team or individual efforts out there as well. There's no central location for all libraries, and as a result there's no hard data on the total number of libraries available.
No matter what it is, or where it comes from, it gets the job done & as long as it is open-source, it is a base for further development. This is the beauty of open-source, the people develop for people