A Magazine Made of Makers for Makers
Thanks our friends from Bare Conductive for this interview to Boris Landoni. We meet them @MakerFaire Rome and, in this interview, we explain our work with the Makers community. Read the full interview here
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Amazing interview with Naomi ‘SexyCyborg’ Wu
Among the most famous and influential women in the world of Makers, there is certainly Naomi Wu. Many of you know her with the nickname “SexyCyborg“. We wanted to interview her to understand how she has achieved this popularity and to understand what she thinks of the OpenSource world. Boris Landoni – You…
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Interview to Dale Dougherty: Founder & CEO MAKE Magazine and Maker Faire
How you can read from his Twitter profile, Dale Dougherty is the Founder of MAKE Magazine and creator of Maker Faire. I had the opportunity to interview him about the makers, about Arduino and Raspberry Pi and obviously about the open-source world. Boris Landoni – We often hear the word “Maker”, but what features…
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Interview to Nebojša Matić CEO of MikroElektronika
Open-Electronics.org: When and why you decided to start Mikroe? Nebojša Matić: It didn’t start from any grand idea… I was out of college, my parents could not support me anymore and I needed an income. Not having any initial capital (this was before the era of readily-available venture capital for startups) I figured out that…
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Interview to Richard Curtin (Premier Farnell): micro:bit, Codebug, IBM IoT Learner Kit
We had the pleasure to interview Richard Curtin (Global Director of Strategic Alliance, Premier Farnell). We asked him how micro:bit, codebug and Farnell initiatives will help young makers. Landoni Boris: Farnell element14, the “Development Distributor”… many of your press releases start with this self-definition. What do you mean with “Development Distributor”? Richard…
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Interview to Eben Upton: the New Raspberry Pi 3, Makers, Pi Zero…and more
Raspberry Pi 3 was presented recently and we took the opportunity to talk to the founder of Rapsberry Pi Eben Upton of the new born. We asked him a few questions to find out why Raspberry Pi is interesting for the public of the Makers and what he thinks of other other board in competition…
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From Arduino to Genuino, the reasons for a choice
Two websites, the company’s going public, lawsuits in many parts of the world: what is happening at Arduino’s? Everything will be made clear in this interview with Massimo Banzi, a few hours after the launch of the new logo and brand, “Genuino”. Those who just deal with technology, and that in the past years…
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Maker Faire Bay Area 2015, Interview with Massimo Banzi: Genuino and the future of Arduino
During the last Maker Faire Bay Area held in San Francisco on May, 15th-17th, we had the incredible chance to meet Mr. Massimo Banzi in flesh and bones. Our CEO Arsenio Spadoni seized the opportunity and interview him, giving Massimo a further chance to explain the complex situation Arduino.cc is facing in the legal dispute…
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Open Source Robots to use Open Wheels project to help hospitalised children
Everybody loves a visit to the zoo. And for a kid it can be an especially magical experience. But if you’re hospitalised, a trip out is easier said than done. For some children, it’s simply impossible. The ambitious Robots for Good project, an initiative by London based Wevolver, is going to change this. Giving hospitalized…
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Merry Christmas and a Open New Year
Here we are, a great year full of innovations and open source project is passing by and we would like to celebrate with you this magic moment! As usual in this period, it’s time to take stocks of the work done so far, so here are the most visited posts on Open Electronics. Top 5…
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Woelab: bringing Africa on the train to the next Industrial Revolution
Introduction I just wanted so badly to do this interview: when meeting the guys on the stage of Fab10, where they were prized as winners for their amazing approach at building 3d Printers – out of electronic waste, I just felt that these group of hackers was really doing something more important, something that deserved…
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Obrary, on a challenge: marketing Open Design (or Open Source Hardware)
Few days ago I had the chance of exchanging few tweets with the Obrary team about file availability @TheObrary I saw the definition but can’t see download links in product pages, only email links. — Simone Cicero (@meedabyte) August 26, 2014 and later on this led to a short mail interview with co-founder Scott Austin,…
