Around 70.000 people attended the 2013 World Maker Faire, NYC this past weekend.

We want to thank all the people vising the Arduino booth (in the Arduino Zone powered by Atmel) and give a special thank to all the amazing volunteers helping us transmitting the passion for making, discovering and tinkering  with Arduino boards.  Temboo team spent the whole weekend with us: it was their first time at MakerFaire and they were astonished at the positive energy of the event.

Take a look at the collection of pictures below to discover also the cool friends coming by, like LadyAda, Phil Torrone, Joey Hudy, Josef Prusa… (if you have pictures to share use the hashtag #arduino or post the link in the comments below)

We’ll be back soon at Maker Faire Rome! Have you booked your ticket yet? Click and book it now with a discount code.

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 and is filed under Announcements, MakerFaire.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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This year, once again we are participating at World Maker Faire for the whole weekend. You can come and visit our booth at the Hall of Science. We’ll have  4 hands-on demo tables allowing you to know more about Arduino boards, try using the IDE and experiment with the hardware yourself.
We’ll be demonstrating the new Arduino Yún and how to use Temboo. We also set up a special table to experiment with the Arduino Robot and allow visitors to try its wonderful capabilities live.

On Saturday afternoon there’ll be a couple of presentations you can attend:

- Massimo Banzi: The state of Arduino
Where: Innovation Stage
When: Saturday 2:30 PM    3:00 PM

- Michael Shiloh: Getting Started With the Arduino Yún
Where: Electronics Stage
When: Saturday    4:30 PM    5:00 PM

Looking forward to see you all at the Electronic Pavillion, ZONE C (check out the Makerfaire MAP in PDF)

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Friday, September 20th, 2013 and is filed under events, Exhibition, MakerFaire.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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( Originally published in Make)
In early July we spent a couple of days going through all of the submissions received to participate in Maker Faire Rome — the European Edition, taking place Oct. 3-6 in Italy. It was a great experience for us to discover makers’ projects from all around Europe, and the MakerTour gave us the chance to meet some of them and to produce 69 video clips to share this experience with all of you. You can watch the videos on the Maker Faire Rome channel on YouTube. Among those is a video of a visit to the Arduino factory in Ivrea.

On the blog we said thank you 320 times to everyone who submitted her or his ideas to Maker Faire Rome, and we published a map showing a total of 200 Italian projects and 120 from other countries participating in the Call for Makers, which ended on June 30.

To give you an idea of the diversity of projects we received, I chose three from Italy, France, and Spain.

BitCave is a project focused on local and homemade cheese production created by Guido Cortese, a technician based in Italy who likes bees and plein air. After self-producing beer and bread, it’s now possible to experiment with cheese making. If you don’t have a cellar or basement to age cheese, you can reproduce the optimal conditions to let raw cheese ripen by adjusting seasonal parameters with the help of Arduino. The parameters of temperature and humidity are governed by ripenINO, the brain of BitCave. The airflow is constantly cooled and humidified through the cell, and is corrected in case of microclimatic variations depending on the program you choose.

Shhh. Cheese sleeping inside.

FabSkate is a project designed as a proof of concept for digital manufacturing and developed by Luciano Betoldi with Fablab Barcelona team, in Spain. Their goal was to develop a system that delivers fully customized, high quality skateboards and longboards for the price of an off-the-shelf model. Initially trained as a product designer, Luciano became interested in digital manufacturing techniques while designing, developing, and prototyping high-end furniture for large European manufacturers. He quickly changed direction as he realized how these techniques would soon become the manufacturing process itself, and he focused on learning as much as he could about it, working closely with the Barcelona FabLab for the last five years.

An early FabSkate design.

Bionico Hand is an open source, affordable 3D printed robot hand adaptable for upper limb amputees with muscular interface. Nicolas Huchet started the project for himself, working together with the team of Labfab, a fablab in Rennes, France. Now the project is getting bigger as the team is collaborating with people around the world, especially from Brazil and the U.S. They also work in synergy with Gael Langevin, the creator of the incredible Inmoov Robot, which is coming to Maker Faire Rome as well!

You can watch a cool video interview of both below.

It’s going to be a great Maker Faire, full of surprises, and engaging activities. Are you coming to Italy?

This entry was postedby Massimo Banzi on Monday, July 22nd, 2013 and is filed under MakerFaire.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Neil Gershenfeld, fondatore del Center for Bits and Atoms che ha dato vita all’idea di FABLAB, incontra i makers italiani all’Acquario Romano. In occasione di Atoms, Bits & People ci saranno anche Massimo Banzi, Riccardo Luna.  Per partecipare bisogna registrarsi gratuitamente, ma affrettatevi perchè i posti sono limitati e i makers sono tanti e molto interessati a partecipare.

L’evento è organizzato dall’Ambasciata degli Stati Uniti d’America e dal Global Shapers Hub di Roma in collaborazione con World Wide Rome e  Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition

Dove: Roma, Italia
Quando: venerdì 24 maggio ore 18

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 and is filed under events, MakerFaire.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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The world’s most diverse showcase of creativity and innovation in technology, craft and science is starting tomorrow in San Mateo, California and the Arduino team will be there with more than a couple of new things to present.

First of all, finally and officially the Arduino Robot will be alive and running around the Arduino tent to bring you into the world of robotics. Designed with Complubot, the 4-time world champions in Robocup Junior robotics soccer, the robot allows for endless hours of experimentation and play. It is a self-contained platform allowing you to build interactive machines to explore the world. As all the other Arduino products you can use it as it is, modify its software and even add your own hardware on top of it: it is perfect for the novice but also for those looking for their next challenge.

As you may have read in the article published on MAKE some days ago, The Arduino Robot is the result of the collective effort from an international team looking at how science can be made fun to learn and we loved to share its story. Connected with this aim, David Cuartellies – head of Arduino Verkstad, the Arduino office in Malmö (Sweden) – during Maker Faire Bay Area will present the Castilla Education Project  aiming at evaluating the use of Arduino and other open source tools in the schools of Spain. He’ll especially focus on the way content was created and validated in an experiment involving 24 schools, 30 teachers, over 500 kids, and a 6-members design team.

On the topic of education also Michael Shiloh — Coordinator of Education materials for Arduino, will be on the Education stage on Sunday  at 4.30pm for a Q&A on how to use Arduino boards and how to prepare material for teaching.

Then we’re happy to announce that Arduino is releasing the new version of the Arduino IDE and the new TFT screen. TCT LCD library relies on the Adafruit GFX and ST7735 libraries.   The Arduino specific library, named TFT, extends the Adafruit libraries to support more Processing-like methods. You can write text, draw shapes, and show bitmap images on the screen in a way that should be familiar to users of Processing.

If you want to hear all these news from the voice of Massimo Banzi, don’t miss the center stage of Maker Faire Bay Area, saturday 18th of May from 1.30 and come to visit us at the Arduino tent (see map below for directions).

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Friday, May 17th, 2013 and is filed under Announcements, arduino, Education, Ethernet, Hardware, IDE, MakerFaire, Processing.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Al periodico appuntamento con l’elettronica amatoriale presso Modena Fiere, che oggi e domani (19-20 Gennaio) ospita Expo Elettronica, i makers e gli hobbysti emiliano-romagnoli non possono rimanere delusi per il calibro degli ospiti in programma. Officine Arduino, assieme ai ragazzi del FabLab di Reggio Emilia, offrono un’occasione unica per confrontarsi con il mondo dei makers e con la prototipazione DIY, grazie a numerose varianti di stampanti 3D esposte e funzionanti, assieme alla possibilità di provare e “toccare con mano” alcune delle novità più interessanti del mondo Arduino, come l’Arduino DUE.

Lo stand del FabLab di Reggio Emilia.

Alcune delle novità più interessanti riguardano i prossimi eventi in programma, fra cui troviamo l’importante “Makre Faire – The European Edition”, che verrà ospitata per la prima volta in Italia nei giorni 3-6 Ottobre 2013 a Roma e che vedrà coinvolta l’intera comunità di makers provenienti da tutta Europa. Fra gli eventi in programma vi saranno conferenze, workshop hands-on e numerosi speech, in aggiunta alla fiera “vera e propria” che si terrà nel week-end.

Per partecipare come espositori, a partire dal 18 Febbraio si aprirà una “Call for makers” alla quale chiunque sia interessato potrà inviare la propria candidatura e i propri progetti, che verranno accuratamente selezionati per costituire il programma delle numerose esposizioni previste. Stay tuned sull’home page della fiera per i prossimi aggiornamenti!

Costantino e Davide presentano la Maker Faire di Roma.

Fra gli imminenti eventi in calendario elenchiamo il prossimo Workshop Base di Arduino che si terrà i giorni 26-27 Gennaio a Reggio Emilia, presso il FabLab “Spazio Gerra”. Le iscrizioni sono ancora aperte, ma i posti ancora disponibili sono limitati! Accorrete numerosi!

This entry was postedby Alessandro Paganelli on Saturday, January 19th, 2013 and is filed under arduino, around the world, Community, conference, events, Exhibition, MakerFaire, press, workshop(s).You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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