For the latest episode of our Meet The Founders interviews we are releasing today the intervivew we made recently with WIkihouse funder Alastair Parvin. The interview come up superbe and it touches a lot of topics, ranging from furniture manufacturing to VC strategies, from crowdfunding to openness. There are the kind of post you…
Today we present an expansion shield for Raspberry Pi to control the very effective GSM/GPRS SIM900 and SIM908 (with GPS) modules: in this way it is possible to extend the functionality of Raspberry Pi for mobile applications (eg: remote control) and, by employing the SIM908 module, even the GPS functionality. Even if we will describe…
Maker Faire Rome was a blast. More than thirty thousands people visited the show and wandered around the stands. Since I was there to cover the “ReMake the World” conference in day one and the “Business of Making” event on day two, I was completely short in time availability but, at some point, I just…
In the last few years we saw an increasing awareness about open hardware (OH) projects, now starting to have an impact on the startup community and academia – as more and more projects under CC licenses try to involve the crowd in improving designs and applications – and even mainstream media now finally starting to cover the…
Missed Day1 “How To ReMake the World” Conference? Read our First Day Recap! Despite the second day of the Rome Maker Faire was mainly the day of Schools (incredible to see the huge number of boys and girls wandering around the stands), afternoon’s faire program featured the Tech Garage event, where a huge number of startups pitched in front…
Here’s a complete writeup of what happened yesterday 3/10 at Rome Maker Faire. Overall it was a great show with I think more than 1000 attendees (during weekday, in Italy, it’s pretty huge) attended an overcrowded Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome’s EUR, the neighborhood that is the best expression of Fascist era architecture. In this…
Here’s an application to control the brightness of an RGB LED strip wirelessly (via Bluetooth) using a smartphone. The whole project is presented in a dedicated Bluetooth shield for Arduino and a RGB shield. The Bluetooth Module You’ll know already that the market is full of different Bluetooth modules: these modules are all based on…
Controls the ignition of lamps or other electrical loads when the brightness of the environment falls below an adjustable threshold. There are circuits that never get old and withstand time, progress, and emergence and spread of a variety of microcontrollers and boards, perhaps because there is always a need of something simple, cheap and…
As you probably know, just in few days, the first Maker Faire European Edition will be held in Rome, Italy and will gather thousands of makers and curious from all over the world. Further than participants, the Maker Faire will see speakers like Mark Frauenfelder, David John Gauntlett, Raffaello D’Andrea, Dale Dougherty and many…
Eagle PCB Design Software it’s hugely adopted across the Open Source Software community: surely many of you already used Eagle to create boards and circuitry and the Eagle format has become sort of a standard in the maker community to share design openly. Because of this huge penetration in the community, we decided to dig…
After some time now, the Open Hardware Ecosystem and Business sector gained some significant traction. An excellent presentation by Mathilde Berchon was recently release at the open hardware summit, trying to summarize the increasingly interesting diversity and numbers of the OSHW business. Here’s some interesting passage in the talk: The number of open hardware startups…
Today we introduce a great LCD expansion shield for Raspberry Pi that allows you to create an interface to control applications without the need to constantly keep a monitor, keyboard and mouse connected. Cool! Isn’t it? The enhanced value of a micro PC as Raspberry Pi with respect to a classic microcontroller is to…
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