Welcome to Getting Started with Intel Galileo Maker Sessions! This 3 week program will engage teams of makers around the world to participate in making using Galileo, Intel’s brand new Arduino-compatible development board featuring Intel architecture. Along with a few Master Makers, we’ll host weekly live sessions via Google+ Hangout On Air. We’ll talk about the tools and techniques to build with the platform and we’ll share your team projects, culminating with a live show-and-tell of the most creative builds. Throughout the program, you can connect with other teams in the Google+ community to share your progress, offer tips, and get help. Even if you don’t have a team, we invite you to join in as we learn more about Intel’s Galileo.
Mark your calendars for our three live Google+ Hangouts On Air:
All sessions will be recorded and available in our archive on this page and on YouTube, but we encourage you to join us live so that you can ask questions and interact with other teams. During the live sessions, post your questions and comments to the community page.
About Maker Sessions
Getting Started with Intel Galileo is the latest Maker Session presented by MAKE magazine and Intel. This 3 week program is designed to engage teams of makers around the world to participate in making using Galileo, Intel’s brand new Arduino-compatible development board featuring Intel architecture.
Making and hacking: Live online events using a Google Plus community to bring together makers online and at physical locations for hacking and making. Maker Sessions are organized around a theme or a purpose – to look at technologies that enable new applications and to encourage people of all skill levels and interests to participate in the development of ideas and applications.
Hacking the hackathon: Bring makers together where they live and work – at home, at a university or at makerspaces. Explore opportunities to do something cool – something that perhaps nobody else is doing. Learn from master makers about an application area and discover cool maker projects.
Recent Galileo Posts

Microsoft’s IoT Developer Program Puts Windows on Little Boards
I found it interesting that you could put Windows on an Intel Galileo. Like the version of Windows for for small tablets, it's free (as in beer). To program a Galileo running Windows, you’ll need to run Visual Studio and write some C++.
- Posted by Brian Jepson | December 15th, 2014 3:01 PM

Robotic Sea Creatures that Respond to Invisible Waves
Designed to engage and empower the maker community, Intel’s “Inside the Blue” project, developed in tandem with digital media agency Noise, encourages makers to create robotic creatures using their Galileo board. These creatures are meant respond to invisible waves all around us. To help makers get inspired, they recruited beta teams to make a few […]
- Posted by Matt Richardson | October 17th, 2014 2:01 PM

Intel Asks, What Will You Make?
A garage door opens. The camera pans in. This could be Cupertino, 1976, but it's not. It's today, at your neighborhood makerspace.
- Posted by Nick Normal | October 2nd, 2014 9:01 AM

Wyliodrin Cloud Programming Supports Pi and Galileo
Wyliodrin is an online service that allows you to visually create applications for Linux development boards and control them from your browser. You can use their service to program a Raspberry Pi and they’ve recently partnered with Intel to allow you to program second generation Galileo boards. Users can start with Visual Programming, a language […]
- Posted by Matt Richardson | September 15th, 2014 7:01 AM

Intel Announces 2nd Generation Galileo Development Board
In late 2013, Intel launched Galileo, their Linux-powered, Arduino-compatible development board which runs on their silicon. Today, Intel officially announces the second generation of the Galileo development board, which was teased at MakerCon last May. “We’ve made a number of enhancements to the Intel Galileo board based on feedback from the active Galileo user community,” […]
- Posted by Matt Richardson | July 15th, 2014 10:29 AM
Recent Robotics Posts

10 Rules to Win at Robot Combat
These 10 rules could turn you into a champ.
- Posted by David Calkins | April 30th, 2022 8:00 AM

This Adorable DIY Robot Makes Clever Use of a Round Screen
Let’s just get this out of the way immediately, this thing is adorable. This little desk robot may have cool features and great design, but the first thing I thought was “aaaw, it’s so cute!” David has a real talent for design and construction. He was seeking a project to utilize this round screen and […]
- Posted by Caleb Kraft | April 11th, 2022 9:08 AM

The Return of FIRST Robotics: LA Regional 2022
Way back in 2020, before COVID shut down the world, there was a film crew following a few high school FRC teams heading to the LA Regional FIRST Robotics competition. If you’ve seen More than Robots on Disney+, you’ve seen what was the last in-person competition for these teams before COVID hit. Last weekend, at […]
- Posted by Michelle Lowman | April 7th, 2022 12:49 PM

This Surprisingly Lifelike Spider Bot Will Look You In The Eye
This project was one of my all time favorites. I saw it circulating around the web 15 years ago when it was new and I was captivated by the motion and design of this little bot. Just watch as it locks on and maintains eye contact with it’s creator, Matt Denton. The interesting thing happening […]
- Posted by Caleb Kraft | November 22nd, 2021 8:00 AM

MUSIC MAKING: BLE MIDI Xylophone
Play this wireless BLE MIDI xylophone, or watch it play itself!
- Posted by Liz Clark | August 25th, 2021 8:00 AM