Arduino says more than 270,000 UNO Q boards have shipped worldwide in the board's first year. The company published the figure on October 8, 2026, in a post titled "One year of UNO Q: built together, open by design", and dated its numbers to September 29, 2026. The board is shipping: the UNO Q 2GB (SKU ABX00162) is listed at $59.00 USD and shown as in stock on Arduino's US store as of October 20, 2026.
The figures are Arduino's own, and the company did not define what it counts as a board "shipped".
The numbers Arduino reported
Alongside the shipment figure, Arduino reported these ecosystem numbers, all dated September 29, 2026:
- 400+ events across the ecosystem
- 4,000+ contest participants, who delivered 250+ official builds
- 850+ topics about UNO Q on the Arduino Forum
- Project Hub shares nearly doubled year on year
- Library downloads grew roughly 50%, to 244+ million in the last 12 months, from 165+ million the previous year
- 35+ million Arduino IDE downloads
- A community of 33M+ Arduino developers
Some of these figures cover more than the UNO Q. The library download count, the IDE download total and the 33M+ community figure describe Arduino's wider ecosystem, and the post does not say how much of that activity came from UNO Q users. The board-specific figures are the shipment count, the forum topic count and the contest numbers. The contest, Invent the Future with Arduino UNO Q and Arduino App Lab, was run with Hackster; Arduino said its winners would be announced on October 9, a date that has now passed.
The board in brief
The UNO Q pairs a Linux-capable application processor with a separate microcontroller on one board in the UNO form factor. Arduino's product page lists the following for the UNO Q 2GB:
- MPU: Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210, quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 @ 2.0 GHz, Adreno GPU
- MCU: STM32U585, Arm Cortex-M33 up to 160 MHz, 2 MB flash, 786 KB SRAM
- RAM and storage: 2GB LPDDR4, 16GB eMMC
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi 5 (2.4/5 GHz), Bluetooth 5.1, onboard antenna
- Power: USB-C, 5 V max at 3 A; VIN input 7–24 V
- Dimensions: 68.85 mm x 53.34 mm
The UNO Q was announced a year ago in the same news as Arduino joining the Qualcomm Technologies family, and the board's application processor comes from Qualcomm's Dragonwing line. Arduino App Lab launched alongside the board. A couple of months before the anniversary post, Arduino introduced VENTUNO Q, which the company says brings "substantially more computing and AI capability to Arduino developers."
Software milestones over the year
Much of the post is about software released or updated during the UNO Q's first year.
Arduino Core on Zephyr 1.0.0. The project maintainers tagged release 1.0.0 of the Zephyr-based Arduino core on September 2, taking it out of beta. Arduino describes it as an RTOS foundation for MCU-based boards, including UNO Q and VENTUNO Q. The headline items in the 1.0.0 release notes are:
- support for the VENTUNO Q board
- an update to Zephyr 4.4.1
- camera support for Nicla Vision
- many bug fixes and CI improvements
The detailed change list also makes all RAM available on VENTUNO Q, fixes a VENTUNO Q forced reboot, adds MKR SPI to the Portenta C33 variant, and changes Portenta H7 Serial pin mapping to match mbed, adding UART7 and UART8. UNO Q support first appeared in the core's earlier 0.51.0 release. Other boards named in the core's release notes include the Nano Matter, Nano RP2040 Connect, Portenta H7 and C33, Giga R1 WiFi, Opta, Nicla Sense ME and Nano 33 BLE.
Operating system options. Arduino added Debian Linux for UNO Q and Qualcomm Linux for UNO Q as OS options for the board's MPU side.
IDE and Cloud. Agentic Mode, which Arduino says brought AI-assisted development to an Arduino desktop IDE, arrived in August. Arduino Cloud also received an update that added multi-page dashboards.
Hardware add-ons and partners. Arduino released eight new Modulino nodes during the year: Motors, Joystick, Latch Relay, Light, LED Matrix, Vibro, Hub and Extender. It also launched a Works with Arduino program.
What It Means for Makers
The UNO Q is built for projects that split work between a Linux application and real-time microcontroller code. Arduino App Lab packages an Arduino sketch running on the MCU together with a Python program running on the MPU as one application, and Arduino says App Lab is available on GitHub. On the Linux side, the store page lists Docker and Docker Compose support.
For MCU firmware, the Zephyr-based core is now at a non-beta 1.0.0 release. Its UNO Q support dates to 0.51.0, while most of the board-specific fixes in 1.0.0 target VENTUNO Q, Portenta and Nicla boards. Before upgrading, check the 1.0.0 release notes for changes that affect your board.
The Works with Arduino program lets partners certify System on Modules. Arduino says developers can move UNO Q or VENTUNO Q apps to compatible hardware "without changing a line of code." The post does not name which modules have been certified.
Arduino's store also links to a 4GB version of the UNO Q alongside the 2GB board.
