History of the Arduino

Precursor to Arduino, Wiring, is proposed

2003

Wiring enters initial production

Mar 25, 2004

Wiring is tested and used by the creator's collegues

Wiring used to help students create devices

Dec 16, 2004

Wiring is used by a university in a new experimental course that is regarded as extremely successful. The students used Wiring modules to create embedded devices that were creative in nature

Wiring offshoot "Arduino" is created

2005

Negative: The Arduino fork did not properly attribute the efforts of the Wiring, the direct ancestor of the project.

Misattribution: Arduino Doc omits mention of Wiring

2010

Negative: The Arduino project did not mention that the code is forked from even though the Wiring project was a direct ancestor to the Arduino project.

Official IEEE Paper does not recognize the Wiring Project

2011