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SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Weird that your STT doesn't handle capitals, but that's a good excuse. Sounds like you're having a challenging day, I hope my snarky joke wasn't too annoying.

> I hope my snarky joke wasn't too annoying Don't worry, he always writes like this.

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Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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I did check on archive.org, and the code of conduct is there on March 2025. So they didn't just add it in the last month or so, and then send this notice.

From the Code of Conduct: > Unacceptable behaviors include but are not limited to: offensive comments, insults, jokes or ridicule; gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they are nor other unappropriately aggressive behaviors; threats of violence or deliberate intimidation; creating additional online accounts in order to harass another person or circumvent a ban; harassment of any form. I c…

It's so the wrong opinion can be selectively enforced against.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Why is your "open source Teensy" [0] just an RP2350 on a Teensy shaped board? In my book, what makes a Teensy a Teensy is 1) hardware support, like 600Mhz clock, CAN, FPU, RTC, other hardware peripherals which the RP2350 lacks and 2) software compatibility with Paul Stoffregen's well documented Teensyduino libraries. I would not buy something else if I needed these features. Do you plan to do a port? Why not build ar…

hi, great question. we have to start with something and while the RP2350 is not going to beat a 600mhz m7 it is much less expensive, fast to get, has lots of nifty support libraries available, and will definitely do better than the teensy 3.2 which many folks loved so much (and was discontinued during the chip shortage). this is also a great time to add things that we always wanted in the teensy: SWD debug, built in…

Thanks for the answer. I know many are scared off by the closed bootloader of the teensy (though I feel it's a fair thing to do). The lack of on-chip debugging is another shortcoming the Teensys have.

I've been working on an audio project recently, and the the ease of use and feature set that TeensyAudio has is incredible.

Teensy 4 does currently fill a pretty unique niche in terms of processing power though. There isn't much like it outside of professional eval boards.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Typing in all lowercase makes you look more vulnerable, it's a pretty common rhetorical tactic in PR.

Uh, no, it makes you look careless and unprofessional.

How it's perceived is no doubt in the eye of the beholder. I can totally see how some people would associate this writing style with children, and so associate it with "vulnerable".

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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If it means anything, the first thought I had reading this post was "I wonder how SparkFun is exaggerating or misrepresenting this situation, because I can't believe Adafruit of all organizations is in the wrong here."

Yeah just to add to this pile, I've always found Adafruit to be one of the most reasonable companies in the space. I've been buying their products for a decade.

Reppin my free coaster and keeb board. Reminds me of Hitec who would send candy with their transmitters.

Also all their docs man great for noobs like me starting out and libraries.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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From the Code of Conduct: > Unacceptable behaviors include but are not limited to: offensive comments, insults, jokes or ridicule; gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they are nor other unappropriately aggressive behaviors; threats of violence or deliberate intimidation; creating additional online accounts in order to harass another person or circumvent a ban; harassment of any form. I c…

Commas are akin to thing(1|2|3) sometimes. So it's offensive comments, offensive insults, offensive jokes, etc, as I read it, with ; breaking the association.

You're absolutely correct and it's me who has mis-read that part. The point of the oddly relaxed wording on sexual images and behaviour still stands though!

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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valuing style over substance is folly.

It is clearly a deliberate choice to send the signal of conforming to a particular type of non-conformance. It’s a costly signal because most people will see it as having the emotional maturity of a child, it signals to others that given their social status they can afford that self imposed handicap.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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What’s the deal with 5v, 3.3v and 24v “standards” for sensors? It seems like there are really three different markets and it sucks because crossing “lanes” is really annoying. I like how you all made the qwik connectors “just work”, but now that I’m trying more industrial stuff I’m having a hard time figuring out how to get my 24v world to play nicely with the 3.3v world but of course my 24v world only wants to do SP…

> What’s the deal with 5v, 3.3v and 24v “standards” for sensors? Historical garbage and different manufacturing technologies. Be happy if you can get away with only 5V and 3V3 rails in your project. 24V is usually to interface with industrial sensors. And sometimes you see 12V as well, for stuff that's RS232 based. And on top of that you got a fifth standard, 4..20 mA current loops. That one is used for long range tr…

don't forget 0-10v and 2-10v analog signals.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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hi, phil here — post on adafruit here: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/12/discontinuing-the-teens... i’ll stop back and answer anything (sparkfun will not?). sparkfun is the exclusive maker and distributor of the closed-source teensy and informed us we will not be able to purchase the teensy. this happened after i sent an email reporting the founder, nate, for multiple harassing actions directed at limor, including…

I'm not sure I can trust someone who seems completely oblivious to capital letters.
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