Next week, we’ll be in London at Hack The Hackathon‘s developer competition to support the teams in experimenting with “smart” devices. After the great hackathon we had during the Arduino Camp in Torino, we’ll move to London for the 48-hour...

“Anastatica sensibile” is an installation created to study around natural processes as medium for interactivity. It was designed last year by the italian artist Daniela Di Maro in collaboration with the Software Architecture Laboratory of Milan.The...

Smart Textiles Salon was the last event of the Smart Textiles Week organized by the Textile department of the University of Ghent in the beautiful town of Ghent, in Belgium at the beginning of June:Smart Textiles Salon is an attempt to bring topical...

Some days ago David Watts posted an unexpected but very welcome video on Arduino G+ Community, a poem dedicated to the Arduino community itself and commenting with these words:Sort of a thank you to all the people who helped me learn about electronics...

The Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) is a small falcon at the center of HORUS, a project aiming to develop a system for automatic real-time monitoring of colonial falcons at Doñana Biological Station, a public Research Institute in Spain.The falcons...

(en español a continuación)Last April we launched the first of a series of video tutorial in german language with the aim of exploring cool projects with Arduino boards. Now we are happy to announce we are starting a collaboration with Pablo Murillo...

When I was a kid I got into electronics because I started reading specialized magazines on the topic. At the same time it was hard for me to learn electronics from them because the content was not really “beginner friendly” and the projects were...

Last weekend at Fondazione Achille Castiglioni Massimo Banzi held a workshop called “Arduino and the light” where participants learned the basics of Arduino and created an interactive lamp digitally manufactured and designed by Habits Studio.The...

Last saturday we had a great day celebrating the Arduino Camp, hosting the traditional hackaton inside Officine Arduino and Fablab Torino spaces and the huge courtyard of Toolbox Coworking. Many people, cool projects, and a theme: “Reinventing...

Mr. Oyvind from Oslo sent us a cool  hack of a 75-years-old radio into an iPhone dock using an Arduino.On his website you can read the complete tutorial or download the code and below you can have more details on the way...

L’estate non ferma l’appuntamento con l’Arduino Tour che, dopo Alessandria, continua il suo percorso verso Trento. Questa volta saremo ospiti della  Fondazione Bruno Kessler, una fondazione incaricata di mantenere la Provincia di Trento al...

Next weekend Arduino Verkstad in Malmö  is organizing a one-day workshop in collaboration with Sony Mobile to experiment on programming from the Arduino IDE on Sony SmartWatch.You don’t have to be a programmer to participate because this...

Sabato e domenica prossimi presso la Fondazione Achille Castiglioni a Milano, Massimo Banzi terrà un workshop dal titolo “Arduino e la luce” in cui i partecipanti realizzeranno la Tinker Lamp (nelle foto) fabbricata digitalmente...

Thanks to Lance who created a project on Instructables,  you’ll be able to create remote-controlled eyes using Arduino Uno, two servos, some plexiglass and a couple of doll’s eyes.If you like animatronics,  watch the video below: the...

Segui la diretta con Massimo Banzi, Riccardo Luna e altri ospiti che, in occasione dell’Arduino Camp stanno animando l’incontro intitolato “L’Innovazione dal Basso” e parlando di idee e persone che stanno cambiando il mondo senza chiedere il permesso a nessuno!Dalle 19 in diretta da Toolbox a Torino:Questi i temi e i protagonisti:Open source, open hardware, peer-to-peer, creative commons: idee (e persone) che stanno disegnando un mondo che delle regole e dei modelli economici precedenti non sa che farsene, dove l’innovazione non passa solo dai laboratori R&D ma anche dalle scrivanie di un coworking, dove al mito del prodotto perfetto si sostituisce il concetto del sempre-migliorabile, dell’eterno beta,...

Open source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community. Arduino and many other projects share a similar philosophy of creating free open source tools...

Kris Temmerman, a freelance creative developer based in Belgium, just published a nice report on how he built a painting machine running on an Arduino Due and an Android tablet.I was always interested to remove the perfection from computer graphics....

Next to our Arduino booth at Makerfaire Bay Area we had a cool project created by Antipodes, a girls robotics team headquartered in Pacifica, California, USA. It’s a Do It Yourself (DIY) remote controlled (RC) model maglev with electromagnetic...

The Open Source Hardware Association invites submissions for the fourth annual Open Hardware Summit, to be held September 6, 2013 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The Open Hardware Summit is the world’s first...

A nice report on abc local news about Arduino and Maker Faire Bay Area with a short interview to Massimo Banzi saying: “Our angle is to really have people who have no experience in electronics and software, and make them able to create these kind...

Knitic is an open source project which controls electronic knitting machines via Arduino. To be more precise, Knitic is like a new ‘brain’ for the Brother knitting machines allowing people to create any pattern and modify them on the fly. Knitic...

(message originally posted by Massimo Banzi on MakerfaireRome.eu)Dear MakerFaire and Arduino friends,In the past months we’ve been running around Europe with the Maker Faire tour to meet makers from many cities and for the first time we had a concrete...

Adobe’s evangelist Renaun, created a video to explain how to use Chrome’s serial API to talk with an Arduino board as well as receive data from it. You just need to run this sketch file on your board and then run the code in Chrome. Watch...

Venerdì 14 e sabato 15 giugno 2013 si terrà a Torino il tradizionale Arduino Camp Italia, evento completamente gratuito ideato per coinvolgere la community e organizzato da Officine Arduino in collaborazione con Toolbox.L’evento di due giorni prevede...