Rebel Geeks is a seven-part series on Al Jazeera English channel, featuring profiles of people around the world challenging power structures and offering a different vision of our technological future.

During Makers Faire in Shenzhen, in southeastern China, the authors of the series met Massimo Banzi and produced‘ Meet Your Maker’, a video interview about Arduino and how thousands of people are adopting it to build everything from 3D printers to drones, smart home devices to robotics.

‘Meet Your Maker’ can be seen on Al Jazeera English from November 16 at 22.30GMT. 

Watch the trailer and read the article now.

At the end of March Arduino Day was celebrated around the world in more than 260 official and community events. In the video below Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe and David Mellis sent a message to the whole community from the celebration taking place at MIT in Boston:

Take a look at some pictures from official Arduino Day which happened in Boston, Torino, Malmo, Budapest and Bangalore and some birthday cakes popping up on Twitter:

Hoy es Arduino Day #ArduinoD15: ¡¡¡Feliz cumpleaños Arduino!!! Para los que no conocen Arduino; es una platafo… http://t.co/DKCp58gNQp

— StreaMexico (@Stream_Mexico) April 1, 2015

I found #awesomesauce! ???? ?? #ArduinoD15 #arduino #arduinoday #hack #logo #community… … http://t.co/YmZbEF82Ej pic.twitter.com/jE2vglF65e

— Clarke Hosp (@hospdesign) April 2, 2015

#ArduinoD15 and then they brought cake! Awesome thanks @Creating_STEAM pic.twitter.com/GTC6QJGasN — Caren Watkins (@ThisIsCaren) March 28, 2015

It’s Arduino Day! One of our founders @timredfern made a cake version of an @arduino board to celebrate. #ArduinoD15 pic.twitter.com/yN7GVzcPiX

— Drop (@dropkitchen) March 28, 2015

We also wanted to share  links some  organizers sent us to explore pictures/videos of local communities’ gatherings:

• Arduino Day Talent Lab Padova (Italia)
• Arduino Day Wemake Milano (Italia)
• Arduino Day Het Lab Rotterdam (Nederlands)
• Arduino Day Dubrovnik (Croatia)
• Arduino Day Gliwice (Poland) – Pictures and Video
• Arduino Day Bonevet – Djakovica (Kosovo)
• Club Arduino Argentina
• Arduino Day Bangladesh
• Arduino Day Caruaru (Brasil)
• Unoesc Chapeco (Brasil)
• Arduino Day Campinas (Brasil) - blogpost
• IFSP Votuporanga (Brasil) – Video
• Arduino Day Passo Fundo, RS (Brasil)
• Arduino Day ICMC USP (Brasil)
• Arduino Day Bauru (Brasil)
• Arduino Day Epsem
• Arduino Day 2015 Batangas
• Arduino Day Puerto Rico
• Arduino Day Harris County Public Library (Houston, Texas)
• Arduino Day Puerto Madryn, Chubut (Argentina)
• Arduino Day Melbourne Makerspace (Australia)
• Arduino Day Costa Rica
• Arduino Day Sat Montreal (Canada)
• Arduino Day Wikilogia Damasco (Sirya)
• Arduino Day Buffalo Lab New York (USA)
• Arduino Day Casablanca (Morocco)
• Arduino Day Medellin (Colombia)
• Arduino Day Cartagena (Colombia)
• Arduino Day Harringay
• Arduino Day Nerdlab, Gent (Belgium)

Do you have pictures and videos to share of your Arduino Day? Post the link in the comments!

If you live in Boston (USA), Torino (Italy), Malmo (Sweden), Budapest (Hungary), Bangalore (India) you could come and participate to one of the 5 official Arduino Day events on Saturday, March the 28th by our local offices and hosted at MIT Media Lab:

• Arduino (hosted by MIT Media Lab), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Officine Arduino, Torino, Italy
•  Arduino Verkstad, Malmo, Sweden
• Arduino Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
• Arduino Karkhana, Bangalore, India

And there is more! You can take part of the event not only as a visitor but also as  a protagonist. Today we’ve opened the call for volunteers, projects and talks. You’ll be having fun with us and Arduino!

Are you interested? These are the requirements:

– Must be comfortable with simple Arduino hardware and software
– Must be able to explain Arduino concepts to visitors without overwhelming them with technical details
– Must be able to engage in friendly conversations with strangers

We’ll offer as a token of appreciation an official Arduino t-shirt, lunch, and a discount coupon for our online store!

Are you interested? Fill the form. We’ll ping you back! Thanks!

David Cuartielles held a worshop at Campus Party Berlin introducing  Arduino and the cool things you can do with it. Some months later, on of the students, Sanjeet Raj Pandey, wrote him to reveal that the event was a life changing moment.

After that Sajeet decided  to share his knowledge and experience organising workshops in a rural city called Janakpur in Nepal. In that occasion a 100 participants got introduced to Arduino. They learnt how to blink LEDs, work with a temperature sensor, light sensor, ultrasound sensor and also to make a DIY Arduino:

Most of it was financed by myself and a bit of donation from Telecommunication department -Technical University of Berlin and Berlin Promotion Agency.

I like to make things which are real and can be put to work for society . Making things, one just cannot see but also touch is awesome.

Hope you will share Janakpur (Nepal) as one more place with Arduino. I would be keeping up pace and will be doing more such projects, workshops, seminars, remote sessions, etc for students in Nepal.

These are some pictures from the workshops:

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It’s been a couple of weeks since we celebrated with all of you the beginning of our tenth year. We’ve been receiving videos and pictures and want to share them in this post (Explore the tagboard of #ArduinoD14).

The first Arduino Day around the World was a huge success largely due to the dedication of each of the communities joining the party! We had more than 240 community events sharing with us this moment of celebration and we sincerely appreciate the efforts and thank you again for the support within the Arduino Open Source Community!

Once more we realised the importance of community by saying “Arduino is you.” Hardware, software, tutorials, and logistics aside, people enjoying time with Arduino are exemplary of the folks who make it fulfilling for us to continue with this adventure. Thank you!

Here’s some awesome visual reports we received:

• Antonius was at ITP in New York together with Massimo Banzi and Tom Igoe and made this video:
• David Cuartielles featured in this video from Arduino Day Zaragoza:
• Richard from Wevolver in Amsterdam organised a Show and Tell in collaboration with Ifabrica:
  

(take a look also at the video interview they did to Gael Langevin of Project Inmoov!)

•  Explore some nice pictures from: Wellington (New Zealand),  Mexico City (Mexico) Smart Project (Tunisia), Arduino Day Bangalore (India),  Dhaka (Bangladesh),  Tomar (Portugal), Arduino Day Roma (Italy), Arduino Day Fablab Torino- Toolbox Coworking  (Italy),  Arduino Day at WeMake Milano + video by Octopulse (Italy), Chennai + Video  (India) and more… (share the link to your pics in the comments).

This is a submission about an Arduino in Action from Memphis, Tennnessee by Guy Cobb.

Here is what he posted:

Hello from Memphis, Tennessee. I wanted to send all of you at the
Arduino headquarters this photo of my office with my Arduino
“wallpaper” and Arduino earthquake detector. My Arduino project
incorporates a Mega, Uno, and Duemilanove with a cell phone shield for
remote control.

Do you have an arduino-in-action in your office too? Do send us pictures with interesting stories behind it.

Al periodico appuntamento con l’elettronica amatoriale presso Modena Fiere, che oggi e domani (19-20 Gennaio) ospita Expo Elettronica, i makers e gli hobbysti emiliano-romagnoli non possono rimanere delusi per il calibro degli ospiti in programma. Officine Arduino, assieme ai ragazzi del FabLab di Reggio Emilia, offrono un’occasione unica per confrontarsi con il mondo dei makers e con la prototipazione DIY, grazie a numerose varianti di stampanti 3D esposte e funzionanti, assieme alla possibilità di provare e “toccare con mano” alcune delle novità più interessanti del mondo Arduino, come l’Arduino DUE.

Lo stand del FabLab di Reggio Emilia.

Alcune delle novità più interessanti riguardano i prossimi eventi in programma, fra cui troviamo l’importante “Makre Faire – The European Edition”, che verrà ospitata per la prima volta in Italia nei giorni 3-6 Ottobre 2013 a Roma e che vedrà coinvolta l’intera comunità di makers provenienti da tutta Europa. Fra gli eventi in programma vi saranno conferenze, workshop hands-on e numerosi speech, in aggiunta alla fiera “vera e propria” che si terrà nel week-end.

Per partecipare come espositori, a partire dal 18 Febbraio si aprirà una “Call for makers” alla quale chiunque sia interessato potrà inviare la propria candidatura e i propri progetti, che verranno accuratamente selezionati per costituire il programma delle numerose esposizioni previste. Stay tuned sull’home page della fiera per i prossimi aggiornamenti!

Costantino e Davide presentano la Maker Faire di Roma.

Fra gli imminenti eventi in calendario elenchiamo il prossimo Workshop Base di Arduino che si terrà i giorni 26-27 Gennaio a Reggio Emilia, presso il FabLab “Spazio Gerra”. Le iscrizioni sono ancora aperte, ma i posti ancora disponibili sono limitati! Accorrete numerosi!

This enlightening article (talk) by Cory Doctorow appeared on BoingBoing last August. This is not (only) a must-read in terms of  imaging our near future, but an interesting way to weight the importance of the moral meaning Open Source Hardware has in real terms. Happy reading (or listening)

Full transcription on [BoingBoing]

Hamburg Maker Meeting 2012, which took place last week and involved about 200 visitors and more than 20 exhibitors, has been a fantastic opportunity to meet and share experience regarding several topics, such as 3D printing, hacking, retro gaming and so on. At the Attraktor Makerspace, several projects have been presented and demonstrated by their inventors, among which we highlight a very nice Arduino-based floppy drive organ that has been employed to play the Tetris game theme.

Moreover, among the others events planned for the meeting, a special sneak-preview session allowed all the interested people to get some insights on the new Arduino Due board, released a couple of days ago.

A video of the event can be found here, while here you may find more pictures.

More information can be found on the homepage of the meeting.

[Via: Hamburg Maker Meeting website]

E’ terminato da qualche giorno il primo capitolo dell’#arduinotour, a Roma. E’ stata una esperienza molto interessante che ci ha fatto capire cosa funziona nel nostro metodo di insegnamento , ma che ci ha permesso di aggiustare il tiro su alcune mancanze comunicative dettate dell’accumularsi di eventi (e.g. abbiamo informato gli utenti iscritti alla presentazione del venerdì in ritardo, e ce ne scusiamo).

Un grazie particolare a Paolo De Gasperis, Marta Serpietri e Leonardo De Cosmo di Discienza per il supporto organizzativo e a Cattid per la location.

Detto questo, ci siamo sforzati di restituire quanto più possibile del materiale prodotto al workshop a tutti i nostri lettori. I progetti emersi sono stati tre (vedi video sopra / guarda il set sul flickr), e devo ammettere che il livello é molto alto per un workshop base. Tutti i codici dei progetti sono online sul nostro github. Non abbiamo usato particolari periferiche fatta eccezione dell’Arduino Wifi Shield, dell’Ethernet Shield,di un paio di Sensori di Alcohol di Parallax e di cinque FSR oltre ovviamente ad un roverino facilmente reperibile online.

I prossimi workshop dell’#arduinotour sono a Cava De’ Tirreni il prossimo 20-21 ottobre, a Matera il 17-18 Novembre e saranno tenuti da Mirco Piccin e da me: ci divertiremo!

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