Ten years ago, on the 28 March 2005 the first Arduinos hit the market. There'd been maker boards before, and the early days of computing were full of machines that gave users access to the IO ports.

Microsoft has released the first Windows 10 IoT preview for Raspberry Pi 2 and other small computing devices, but it’s far from a full-blown version of the operating system. While the Raspberry Pi 2 ...