Arduino’s Annual Open Supply Report Celebrates 5 New Boards, Main Progress, and Extra MicroPython

The Arduino crew has launched its annual Open Supply Report for 2023, capping off a busy 12 months which included no fewer than 5 board launches, deeper assist for MicroPython and an built-in growth setting for similar, and the discharge of a claimed 5,861 new library variations over the 12 months.

“Heaps has occurred in 2023 by way of open supply growth, and we’re excited to share our yearly recap of the varied contributions from the Arduino crew and the neighborhood,” the Arduino crew writes of the report’s launch. “Collectively, we’ve got launched new, essential open supply tasks – each {hardware} and software program – in addition to revealed and maintained a staggering variety of libraries, rising our shared assets at a record-breaking tempo.”

Arguably the largest highlights of the 12 months have been, after all, the brand new board launches, with 2023 seeing 5 new units in complete: the Arduino UNO R4 Minima and R4 Wi-Fi, a significant overhaul of the favored UNO kind issue; the GIGA R1 WiFi and its Show Protect; and the Nano ESP32, which — because the title suggests — is constructed round an Espressif ESP32 microcontroller. Every of the boards included the discharge of full schematics and CAD information — one thing which has not all the time been the case for Arduino boards up to now.

One other main milestone got here with the announcement of deeper MicroPython assist on chosen Arduino boards — marked by the discharge of a devoted cross-platform firmware installer and additional work on the corporate’s still-experimental “Arduino Lab for MicroPython” built-in growth setting (IDE). The Arduino crew has additionally revealed an inventory of MicroPython packages thought of helpful to Arduino customers, and — in-keeping with the ethos of the Open Supply Report — confirms it has been contributing code to the upstream MicroPython challenge itself.

Turning to the neighborhood, the report claims a 20 per cent year-on-year progress in contributed libraries with 1,068 added all year long to deliver the full to six,532. That is along with 5,861 total releases, a lofty determine which is dominated by updates to present libraries. The Arduino crew additionally named probably the most lively library maintainers and prime contributors of recent libraries all year long — together with software program engineers Rob Tillaart and Khoi Hoang, who topped each tables in first and second locations respectively.

The complete report is now accessible to obtain on the Arduino web site.