Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is Open-Sourcing Imagination
Massimo Banzi helped invent the Arduino, a tiny, easy-to-use open-source microcontroller that’s inspired thousands of people around the world to make the coolest things they can imagine. From toys to satellite gear. Because, as he says, “You don’t need anyone’s permission to make something great.”
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ABOUT Massimo Banzi
“Computer-based interactivity used to be beyond the reach of most artists, designers, and other electronics amateurs who wanted to make their work respond to light, sound and other stimulus by moving, beeping, tweeting.
Then, in 2005, Italian engineer Massimo Banzi and his team created the Arduino micro-controller, a small, cheap programmable computer, bringing interactive technology to the masses. With a variety of sensors, the Arduino is versatile and easy to use.
Since its inception, the device has popped up in projects as varied as an exhibit on brains at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, to a DIY kit that sends a Tweet when your house plant needs water.”
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