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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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nobody wants corporate speak. They are saying they are cutting ties and it's not their fault. No harm in that if it's true.

> No harm in that if it's true. Same as saying "Behringer is a convicted paedophile": no harm if it's true, right?

Are you saying they're lying? That's a different issue than what I understood him to mean "it's unprofessional". It's flat out illegal.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Yeah - I don't really consider this comparable for my uses which rely heavily on the DSP and processing power of the Teensy itself either. Drama and whatnot aside I'm not really sure why anyone would buy the (considerably more expensive) Teensy over something RP based if RP was suitable for their needs already. Interestingly despite being a Teensy fan I have found myself reaching more towards the RP when I can becaus…

I've been interested to hear more about use cases for these "hybrid" MCUs, can you share a bit about why you chose that over something like a Cortex-A running linux, or an SoC with -A and -M cores?

It's a good question - unfortunately I don't really have a good answer...

Almost all of my embedded activities are for a my own hobby purposes, and I just like the ability to go 'as low as I can' with projects on MCUs. It's nice to be able to use the device's peripherals as much as possible (hardware DSP etc) and I'm not confident in how I'd do that on a Linux based system. I'm in to building my own ham radio Software Defined receivers and it's nice to keep it completely real time.

If I were to be doing this stuff professionally (and I am very close to people who do at work) then yeah I'd probably be using Zephyr or something.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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nobody wants corporate speak. They are saying they are cutting ties and it's not their fault. No harm in that if it's true.

There certainly could be harm if it's false though, which is the whole point. And they did not give any information to affirm who's fault (if anyone) it was besides hearsay

that's not the point as far as I can tell. The parent was saying the remarks were oversharing, not false.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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it seems like if i do not reply, it's worse? i totally get what you are saying, however i think we're part of this hackernews community too, and not here to litigate past issues, and i will probably always get a little too worked up when it comes to what i believe is a long history of a "competitor" doing things outside of "it's just business, get thicker skin" ...

> it seems like if i do not reply, it's worse? Yes, it really does seem that way to you. But only to you. :)

That's not necessarily correct. If you leave something standing without gainsaying it there is a substantial fraction of the viewers of the interaction who will come away with the impression that that party that did not speak up against the last comment lost the discussion because they ran out of arguments. This is so widespread that there are multiple names for the phenomenon and lots of good interaction has been ruined by it.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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"they could open themselves up to a libel lawsuit." They already have.

I think in this case it would be Defamation. But the claim is generic enough to be provable (ie private matter, private emails, CoC violation)

Libel is a type of defamation. Just to be pedantic.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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I've been interested to hear more about use cases for these "hybrid" MCUs, can you share a bit about why you chose that over something like a Cortex-A running linux, or an SoC with -A and -M cores?

It's a good question - unfortunately I don't really have a good answer... Almost all of my embedded activities are for a my own hobby purposes, and I just like the ability to go 'as low as I can' with projects on MCUs. It's nice to be able to use the device's peripherals as much as possible (hardware DSP etc) and I'm not confident in how I'd do that on a Linux based system. I'm in to building my own ham radio Softwar…

Ah interesting! I work on (very expensive) SDRs and we make pretty heavy use of Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale SoCs. They combine Cortex-A, Cortex-R, and FPGA fabric all in one package, with some fancy interconnects. So you can handle the hard realtime stuff on an RTOS or in the FPGA, then send the data over to the application processor with a hard float ALU to crunch some numbers (or build some kind of dsp IP into the FPGA, idk much about that side of it).

I've also seen some cool stuff with the BeagleBone products, which have a few TI custom architecture DSPs and "realtime units" which you can communicate with via Linux.

But yeah, I can certainly see how just doing it all on a super fast MCU could be easier and cheaper without the backing of commercial enterprises.

I've always thought it would be cool to design a "poor man's zynq" hat for a SBC. Stick a RP3050 and a Lattice FPGA on there and set up some SPI / UART connections.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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I laughed way too hard at this. Also, I can't even read some of these statements with a straight face because all the project and company names sound completely ridiculous when placed in serious sentences, it's like reading about embezzlement charges for Sesame Street characters.

Levar Burton did get into some hot water over the Reading Rainbow app.

Hah, really? He's a treasure, met him a few times at poetry readings and such. A quick search isn't bringing anything up but google has been failing me a lot lately. Or I'm failing at google a lot lately.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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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 i…

> I know many are scared off by the closed bootloader of the teensy (though I feel it's a fair thing to do).

Why is it a fair thing to do?

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…

Hi phil, appreciate the supposed candor here. I'm just an uninvolved HN observer interested in piecing together all the details of this dispute, here are some follow-up questions:

- The first public claim is that you engaged in targeted social-media harassment of an individual ('discatte') [1], linking various personally-identifiable information to their public profile without consent (name, email and gmail profile pic), and further intentionally misgendering/dead-naming them after being made aware that this was harmful. Do you have any sort of public response to these claims, denying or apologizing for this behavior?

- The second public claim is that the email report you sent to Sparkfun [2] was not simply a 'report' of harassing actions, but itself crossed the line into further harassing behavior ('hi jerks', 'you monsters', etc). Did you really, as claimed, copy the former employee's fiancee's current employer in these email threads as well? Any other context on why this unrelated employer needed to be brought into your dispute?

- Not only SparkFun, but it appears you were also banned from Fossoton [3] for CoC violations related to the dispute with discatte, correct? Any other context on this ban?

- It appears that you also sent another user harassing messages to their Etsy account [4] after objecting to your 'doxxing' of discatte's personal information and blocking you elsewhere, and they reported to you Etsy's trust and safety team. Any other context on this separate incident of alleged harassment?

[1] https://digipres.club/@discatte/115600253924804026

[2] https://gist.github.com/NPoole/df0ec196ac1db7e6eecfd2496b9b4...

[3] https://gist.github.com/NPoole/8e128edb6e32986755450da9285b5...

[4] https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/115599931317645220

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