The general public will be allowed to use these Arduinos and sensors for their own creative purposes while they are in space.
[1] ArduSat is created by NanoSatisfi LLC, an aerospace company which in the words of Phil Plait[2] has "the goal to democratize access to space" and was founded by 4 graduate students from the International Space University in 2012.
ArduSat is the first satellite which will provide such open access to the general public to space.
[5] The ArduSat project currently consists in two identical satellites: ArduSat-1 and ArduSat-X.
Both satellites have a Morse beacon (FM-modulated 800 Hz tones) that is transmitted at 20 WPM every two or three minutes on 437.000 MHz.