Interaction designer, educator and pioneer of free hardware. He is a co-founder of the Arduino project. He has worked for clients such as Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool, V&A Museum and Adidas. He launched the first FabLab in Italy, which led to the creation of Arduino. He worked as a professor at the Ivrea Interaction Design Institute, teaches Interaction Design at SUPSI in Lugano and is a visiting professor at CIID in Copenhagen. He is also editor of Wired Italia magazine.
He participated in Medialab Madrid with the workshop “Open hardware tools: Arduino” (from October 5 to 9, 2005). The workshop consisted of a practical introduction to the use of Arduino, in connection with programs such as PureData, Processing, Flash, Director or Java applications. The workshop was attended by artists, musicians, computer scientists, designers and telecommunications engineers.
Arduino: open hardware tools