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Pradumn Joshi, Technical Enthusiast and Professionally a geek 20 Votes by Samarth Patel, Ryan Gill, Parikshit Joshi, Dinesh Prasad, and 15 more. Well as said before hobbyist are excited about arduino but the problem here in india is that hobbyist base size is quite low in comparison to other countries , in recent years although there is a surge in demand of arduino in india but when we compare it to other countries we can clearly see what is happening around, some reasons are:-

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courtesy:-google trends 1) no awareness about open source technnology be it arduino/beagle board/r pi ,the indian govt take tax and custom duties on these products ,there are seminar's and workshop conducted in many colleges but mostly are useless. 2) these are generally targeted to pre college or school students to develop there interest in technology and programming, infact the project raspberry pi is targeted to school kids in UK,while Indian education system does not have curriculum to support creativity even at college level. 3) Custom parts and availability of material is one of the biggest issue beside skills and training, you will have to search bazillions of websites before you can actually get the product which will be still at a higher price than the forign markets ,even burge wire will cost you 3-4 time's the same in united state's, the part's that come here in india have a lot of issues infact 1 in 5 is actually pre used particularly in microcontroller like 8051 they have there fuse bits already locked and damaged ports if you buy from local vendor. 4) Electronics hobbyist and hardware hacking require's much higher level of dedication and financial back up , it's very often that you will end frying your parts or the buying something which is useless. 5) Although situation has drastically improved in a year with new start up's mushrooming and manufacturing and in fact developing electronics hobby kits but right now it's in nascent stage , but still comparing to other countries it is expected to be status quo. 2 Comments Share Thank Report 8 Dec, 2012 Ajay Sharma, cercatore conoscenza Votes by Shashank Katkar, Shaurya Chopra, Nalin Bhatara, Sravan Neerugatti, and 1 more. Because most people are still after top grades, rather than top explorations. Because most college students worry more about recent developments in fashion, rather than recent developments in their respective fields. 1+ Comments Share Thank Report 3 Mar

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Priyank Patil Suggest Bio Votes by Sumit Bisht and Anonymous. The hobbyists are certainly excited! The professionals? Not so much. The micro controller upon which Arduino is based, has been in use even in India long before Arduino became popular. Arduino is a great prototyping platform for professionals, but beyond that, they won't use it in a product...not the board at least. They may choose use the software though. Sometimes Arduino stack can come in the way of fully utilizing the hardware capabilities of the micro. For example, it blocks one timer/counter peripheral which you could use with the standard software stack. Comment Share Thank Report 8 Dec, 2012 Anonymous Votes by Sumit Bisht and Shikhar Vaish. Apparently, there is some excitement (I posted the question):

Comment Share Thank Report 7 Dec, 2012 Muneendra Bhardwaj, Ambivert, living my life to the lees, I too read more than i write/speak. Votes by Gamin Inganela and Nalin Bhatara. The main reason is the lack of knowledge and our engineering colleges syllabi. the colleges dont give the necessary boost to students to pursue the technology. moreover most of the colleges have teachers who are freshly out of their colleges. most of them have no experience in research. Comment Share Thank Report 5 Apr Sravan Neerugatti, Student in Arts Vote by Shikhar Vaish. The cost I think is the most important reason. 1 Comment Share Thank Report 14 Aug Anand Tamboli, A smart-simple-real solution provider... 1 Besides education system being contributor in the lag seen there are many other issues related to it. Here the priorities are different for career and daily bread earning. Electronics hobby, if has to be maintained well, needs basic finances in place to buy / use / destroy components regularly. Therefore, seen as somewhat costly hobby by many. Custom parts, etc. won't be a problem since many local vendors do have good equivalent platforms for the same. However, awareness has been somewhat problem as you say. But workshops and awareness programs are not going to make too much difference if system is not supportive. In all - it won't be steep change...it will evolve in due course. The only hindsight is, by then, rest of the world would have moved ahead ! Comment Share Thank Report 8 Jul Anonymous Vote by Gamin Inganela. The resurgence of the "DIY" ethos in the last 10 years has been largely based on a highbrow rejection of industrialized, factory-produced goods. India isn't there, yet, as an economy -- Indians still desire factory-produced goods MORE than homebrew

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alternatives since the quality is higher. It will be decades of economic development before Indians are fed up with factory-made, uniform goods. If Arduino takes off in India before then, it will be for the true commercial applications of it, not the just-for-fun hobby crowd that dominates Arduino use today. Comment Share Thank Report 21 Feb Ashish Kumar
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