Arduino Genuino UNO Board Info

The “Get Board Info” pop up will list information about your Arduino microcontroller board.

The board info above shows it’s an “Arduino/Genuino UNO”.

The reason we see “Arduino/Genuino UNO” rather than just “Arduino UNO” is because there was a trademark dispute between the original founders of the Arduino boards and they split.

This meant for a time there was two separate companies producing the boards under different brand names: Arduino and Genuino.

They resolved the trademark dispute and Arduino and Genuino merged.

In simple terms it’s an Arduino UNO board.

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