Where did the name Espruino come from

Posted on Wed 10th, December 2014

• #1

mhoneywill

Just interested thats all :-)
• #2

Gordon

It's just a mix of Espresso - because of the whole Java/JavaScript coffee connection and it being smaller, and a little bit of Arduino - because it's a microcontroller board, and to a lot of people just starting out, 'Microcontroller' and 'Arduino' mean exactly the same thing.
• #3

mhoneywill

How would you pronounce it "X pr we no"?
• #4

Gordon

es-prew-e-no

I think sometimes I don't pronounce the U very well, making it 'Es-pree-no' - but then people get confused and search for 'Esprino' instead :)

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