Geeks in Line Getting Coffee: Arduino’s Massimo Banzi
Watch the co-founder of Arduino and MAKE executive editor Mike Senese defend their spot in line while discussing all the makery things about CES 2014.
Massimo Banzi
Making it in China
Right after the overwhelming experience of Maker Faire Rome I left Europe for a week a quick tour in China. There are a lot of cool things happening there. I’d been to China twice before for a very short time so this time I wanted to spend a few days to meet with people and take part in some cool events going on in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
ร il Momento: Maker Faire Rome
Make Faire Rome, Italy’s first Maker Faire, kicks off today. It’s a four-day celebration of making that’s attracted well over 200 makers from Italy and across Europe. The event is co-produced by Asset-Camera and Tecnopolo in collaboration with Arduino. Arduino’s Massimo Banzi and journalist Riccardo Luna are helping to curate the event.
Science writer Lorenzo Manella is heading up communications. He’s gotten to know the makers who will be attending the event quite well. “I’ve sorted through 200 or more maker projects to dig out their very essence,” he says. “I have tasted their bits and now will know their atoms.” On the eve of the fair I got Lorenzo to pause and answer a few questions about the big event.
Making Noise With Arduino
โMake some noiseโ was a short one-day workshop about Arduino where we explored the topic of sound and it was aimed at complete beginners with no experience. To simplify the structure of the workshop we started with hands-on experiments composed by a quick set of exercises to enable the participants to understand the basics and, later on, to start exploring pitch, frequency, tone ,and multiple effectsโwith quite curious results.
The Atmel Education Panel
It’s not just Maker Faire here in New Yorkโit’s Maker Weekโand there are a huge number of side-events, panels, and hackathons going on around the city. As part of this Atmel hosted a makers in education panel.
Board Meeting: Makers Behind Arduino, BeagleBone Talk Shop
When two titans of the maker movement microcontroller world take the stage at the Hardware Innovation Workshop, they find plenty of common ground. https://makezine.com/hardware-innovation-workshop/
Sneak Preview of Maker Faire Rome Projects
At the beginning of July we spent a couple of days going through all the submissions received to participate in Maker Faire Rome โ the European Edition, taking place Oct. 3-6 in Italy. It was a great experience for us to discover makersโ 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.
