LittleHacks.org. AVR Freaks. Introducing the Intel® Galileo Development Board. BeagleBoard.org - community supported open hardware computers for making. Arduino Cofounder Has Some Advice For You, Hacker. The cofounder of the open source microcontroller Arduino, Massimo Banzi, doesn’t mince words. “Italy is the kind of a country where if you are young, you don't exist,” he says. “It's a country run by old farts.” Banzi decided not to accept the status quo.
Arduino was designed in Italy, by virtue of a foolish young Banzi on a quest for love. Today, Arduino is an enormously popular single-board microcontroller used to develop interactive objects. The Power Of Love Banzi’s career hasn’t followed a conventional path. Banzi trained as a electrical engineer, but always had an interest in design. “It was good to start working with design students because they make beautiful products,” says Banzi. The Arduino Legacy Arduinos take inputs from a variety of switches and sensors and can control lights, motors, and other physical outputs. Microcontrollers are used in all kinds of hacker projects: Musician Imogen Heap’s musical glove and fish on wheels. Advice For Young Technologists 1Reaction.
About us. The Making of Pi The idea behind a tiny and affordable computer for kids came in 2006, when Eben Upton, Rob Mullins, Jack Lang and Alan Mycroft, based at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, became concerned about the year-on-year decline in the numbers and skills levels of the A Level students applying to read Computer Science. From a situation in the 1990s where most of the kids applying were coming to interview as experienced hobbyist programmers, the landscape in the 2000s was very different; a typical applicant might only have done a little web design.
Something had changed the way kids were interacting with computers. A number of problems were identified: the colonisation of the ICT curriculum with lessons on using Word and Excel, or writing webpages; the end of the dot-com boom; and the rise of the home PC and games console to replace the Amigas, BBC Micros, Spectrum ZX and Commodore 64 machines that people of an earlier generation learned to program on.
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