Arduino Tour con tappa a Verona: missione compiuta

on Monday, April 29, 2013

Il weekend del 20 aprile scorso l’Arduino Tour si è fermato a Verona. Condividiamo con voi le foto dell’evento da cui traspare l’entusiasmo dei partecipanti  che, non solo hanno potuto sperimentare le potenzialità dello Starter Kit, ma hanno...

An interactive corset teaching you how to breath

on Saturday, April 27, 2013

RUAH is an interactive corset powered by Arduino Lilypad and created by Giulia Tomasello for her BA graduation project. Its main aim is to help people into learning the importance and the benefits of a deep diaphragmatic breathing.The circuit...

Makerfaire Rome – Hangout on-air with Massimo Banzi on monday

on Thursday, April 25, 2013

Last february we announced the official dates of  MakerFaire Rome – The European Edition – taking place next October and finally, also released  the Call for Makers to invite tinkerers to enter projects and take part to this event celebrating...

Arduino meets Wearables: workshop at Codemotion Berlin

on Thursday, April 25, 2013

After  participating to Codemotion Rome last month, from the 9th of  May we’ll be spending a couple of days at Codemotion Berlin,  an innovative tech event engaging developers of all languages and technologies.We’re having an...

Turning drawings into a music game

on Thursday, April 25, 2013

Gilda Negrini and Riccardo Vendramin, two young product designers from Italy, wrote us to share their last work, designed during a course called Autoproduzioni at Politecnico of  Milano. It’s called MusicInk, it runs on an Arduino Duemilanove...

Arduino’s cameo appearence in The Following

on Thursday, April 25, 2013

The Following is an american TV Series which premiered last january and telling the story of former FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) and his attempts to recapture serial killer Joe Carroll following the latter’s escape...

The joystick that changed a life and could help many more

on Thursday, April 25, 2013

Robert Book is a tinkerer by nature and works at Silicon Valley Bank with Ian McCutcheon, a geek by nature. One day they were talking and Robert shared his big problem: his son Jerry, who suffers from Muscular Dystrophy, couldn’t use a keyboard...

Talking about hacking secondary school education in Spain at Coderdojo conference

on Thursday, April 18, 2013

Coderdojo is a global collaboration providing free and open learning to young people, especially in programming technology. Last weekend David Cuartielles from the Arduino team went to Slane Castle in Ireland  to make a brief presentation...

Lego’s stress test reveals the magic number is 37,112

on Thursday, April 18, 2013

The question was simple: ”How many times can I assemble LEGO bricks before they wear out?” And Phillipe Cantin found the answer  after building a machine to test it: it took 10 days and 37,112 assembling and disassembling...

Instagram fan makes a DIY wooden photo-booth

on Thursday, April 18, 2013

Photographer and Instructables user Alexander Morris created a giant Instagram inspired photo-booth and published all the steps to make one yourself. It’s the perfect solution to pimp-up your parties!What’s inside of the box? An Arduino...

Equipping teens with hands-on approach to robots

on Thursday, April 18, 2013

Hello, I am Frank Magazu. I am 16 years old and go to school in Pasco, Florida. I make robots with the Arduino and got interviewed by my school district. Here is a video of me. Thanks for helping me become proficient at robotics as well as electronics...

Let’s go german with Arduino video Tutorials – auch auf Deutsch

on Thursday, April 18, 2013

(Den Text auf Deutsch findet Ihr weiter unten)Today we are announcing the first of a series of video tutorials in german created in collaboration with our friend Max, founder of MaxTechTV and published on Arduino channel on Youtube.The tutorial...

Arduino, open-design and Makerfaire at the Design Week in Milan

on Saturday, April 13, 2013

If you happen to come to Milano this week the city is hosting a lot of events  organized in different locations for the 6-day Salone del Mobile dedicated mainly to furniture design but offering a lot of other initiatives taking place around...

Arduino goes to Shenzen: the Hollywood of hardware products

on Saturday, April 13, 2013

Last week-end we just had a good time at the Maker Faire of Shenzen, hosted in the wonderful OCT District.We were invited by Eric Pan from Seeedstudio (thanks Eric for the good time!). The Maker Faire has been a priceless experience to get in touch...

L’Arduino Tour atterra a Napoli – 3-5 maggio

on Saturday, April 13, 2013

Il nuovo Arduino Starter Kit, lanciato oramai qualche mese fa, sta entusiasmando grandi e piccini con il suo libro di tutorial, le componenti speciali e la serie di video in cui Massimo Banzi spiega come realizzarli. Se però preferite che i docenti...

Meowser: a laptop and Arduino for a led mineral cabinet

on Sunday, April 7, 2013

MEOWSER is a (M)ineral (E)lement Br(owser): a wooden display cabinet containing rocks and mineral samples with LED lighting controlled from a laptop computer.  The laptop can display either the periodic table or a layout of the cabinets....

A cicada warning system with Arduino

on Sunday, April 7, 2013

This spring, patches of the East Coast will turn buzzy and crunchy because of … bugs.  Periodical cicadas (or Magicicadas) usually live underground but after 13 or 17 years, they emerge synchronously and in tremendous numbers to look...

Vi aspettiamo all’Arduino Day a Roma

on Sunday, April 7, 2013

Sabato 6 aprile 2013 si tiene a Roma, l’Arduino Day – Think Make Share. Si tratta di una giornata interamente dedicata ad Arduino e alla prototipazione elettronica organizzata da DiScienza, un’associazione che dal 2009 si impegna nella divulgazione...

Meet the Maker: Jody Culkin

on Sunday, April 7, 2013

Imagine being an artist with an insane desire to learn the tools that would set your art apart, that would inspire you to create something closest to your imagination. Imagine a burning desire improve the lives of others with all the skills that...

Sabato si celebra il coworking: Toolbox Festival a Torino

on Sunday, April 7, 2013

Si prepara un fine settimana denso di eventi: a partire dall ‘Arduino Day a Roma, ospitato nella bellissima cornice del Cinema Palazzo, per permettere a chiunque fosse interessato di muovere i primi passi nel mondo di Arduino.  Se invece...

How to make something like “Makey Makey” using Arduino

on Monday, April 1, 2013

Many people asked Alpesh Vitha how to create something like Makey Makey using Arduino and he created this cool video, together with Mowgli, to share with all of us how to use an Arduino Leonardo to accomplish the task. He lives in Kolkata and  runs...

L’Arduino Tour fa tappa a Verona: presentazione + workshop!

on Monday, April 1, 2013

Dal 19 al 21 aprile Arduino atterra a Verona e aggiunge una nuova tappa dopo  Matera, Reggio Emilia e Milano.Il venerdì 19 potrete assistere  alla presentazione pubblica del progetto Arduino e nel weekend due giorni di full immersion...

Call for Arduino music at Gwendalyn Festival 2013

on Monday, April 1, 2013

(Italian version below)Are you a musician, music amateur, electronic bricoleur or maker who makes music by creating your own instruments and tools using Arduino?We are looking for your music tracks to be presented in a radio program entirely dedicated...

How close are we to doomsday? A clock is calculating it in real time

on Monday, April 1, 2013

Tom Schofield created an installation artwork which visualises the ‘Doomsday Clock’, a symbolic clock maintained by an academic journal, ‘The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ which:conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction–the figurative...

Kids and parents discovering the wonders of 3d printing

on Monday, April 1, 2013

Last weekend Arduino and Officine Arduino participated to  the third edition of Codemotion Rome, the international event focused on the art of programming.During the three-day event we organized presentations and lab sessions: Federico Vanzati...