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 a company called “Inventify” to popularize Arduino and science in Indian schools especially those with less resources. Enjoy the video tutorial !
on Sunday, March 24, 2013
Massimo and I had the chance to visit a Labitat makerspace in Copenhagen. I have to thank Martin Markus to let us in on a non-visit day and move underground, where the lab is.
The main reason of our visit was getting in touch with the Bio-Hackers and Maker Community meeting there, get them involved in the Call of Makers for the upcoming European Maker Faire in Rome. We had a good time in talking with them about the strange situation we are witnessing here in Europe: many languages, many nations, one big movement of people tinkering around stuff. Get everybody to know about this event and the chance to meet and talk to each other is a massive task. But we are going to overcome it!
The place is just super. I’ve been involved in the making of a makespaces in the last three years of my life, but I have no words in describing the feelings I had in witnessing the massive amount of contents that basement kept. No joke.
I tried my best in recovering those objects, those feelings and this odd XXIst century knowledge in a pool set of Flickr, where I tried to describe and follow the different projects I’ve seen.
Why visiting makerspaces is to me just like standing on giants shoulders? Basically because I know the problems and I see better, streamlined solutions answering (better than ours in Fablab Torino. You guys feel free to comment and make me feel naiv about the Fridge, Bio Hacks, the communication billboards, and the AtMEGA 16u2 hack from Dennis.
