Category: The Arduino Way

Collaboration between users is one of the key principles in the Arduino world—through the forum at forum.arduino.cc, people from different parts of the world help each other learn about the platform.  We also set up a website called “Project Hub” where users document their project and make them available for other users to build. It’s so amazing to see…

Toys are a fantastic source of cheap technology to hack and reuse. With the current influx of thousands of very cheap high-tech toys from China, you can build quick ideas with a few noisy cats and a couple of light swords. I have been doing this for a few years to get my students to…

People throw away a lot of technology these days: old printers, computers, weird office machines, technical equipment, and even a lot of military stuff. There has always been a big market for this surplus technology, especially among young and/or poorer makers and those who are just starting out. This market became evident in Ivrea, where we developed Arduino.…

We believe that it is essential to play with technology, exploring different possibilities directly on hardware and software, sometimes without a very defined goal. Reusing existing technology is one of the best ways of tinkering. Getting cheap toys or old discarded equipment and hacking them to make them do something new is one of the…

Prototyping is at the heart of the Arduino Way: we make things and build objects that interact with objects, people, and networks. We strive to find a simpler, faster, and cheaper way to prototype. A lot of beginners who are approaching electronics for the first time think that they have to learn how to build…

The Arduino Way is a philosophy based on making things rather than talking about them. It is a constant search for faster and more powerful ways to build better prototypes. We have explored many prototyping techniques and developed ways of thinking with our hands. Classic engineering relies on a strict process for getting from A to B;…