Arduino Labs is a new open development playground for the Arduino. Open development is when in-progress source code, design files, and documentation are available to anyone. It’s the norm in open source software, where design is almost always public and collaborative.
Open hardware shops usually like to keep new stuff under wraps until it’s “ready” for release. We think this is a mistake. It seems inconsistent with our roots in open source software, and secret projects don’t benefit from community review.
We’re strongly in favor of open hardware development. Thumbs up to projects like Arduino Labs, it’s great to get insight into your hardware design process.
Today we open Arduino Labs, a new website we have been working on for a few weeks that will allow us to post documentation about projects we are working on that are not ready to be “official” yet.
We want to have a more open development process within the Arduino project and this is one of the many steps that are getting us there.
Via Adafruit.