We have gotten used to computers, smart phones, iPads, even to wearing small computer-like gadgets around our wrist when we’re working out – then imagine what happens when all these things connect to each oth [...]
Media Evolution recently released the publication Internet of Things: how media industries can benefit from a network of connected things. Medea’s David Cuartielles and Richard Topgaard contributed. Download the pu [...]
DAVID CUARTIELLES is a researcher at Malmö University and one of the founders of the revolutionary open-source microcontroller Arduino. On March 1, David Cuartielles gave a Medea Talk about the history of Arduino, and a [...]
There is a website that pumps poetry at breakneck speed, 24/7. Trivialities, death, grief and love; instant poetry authored by millions of unknowing but ego-centric Twitter users around the world. This was one of the res [...]
This internet connected doorlock started as an idea during the 48h Hackathon event hosted by MEDEA and STPLN in february as an opening party of the prototyping lab Fabriken. The doorlock project have since then lived on [...]
Sign up to this great event where we will play with the prototyping platform Arduino. You will meet people from Geek Girl Meetup Öresund, Nätverket Göran and MEDEA. [...]
Arduino is an acclaimed open-source microcontroller that was recently mentioned at the Google I/O conference where they announced that the Android development team has created a toolkit that allows developers and designe [...]
I was contacted by a journalist regarding the latest Google I/O keynote that happened yesterday. For those of you not familiar with that yearly event, it is when Google announces its latest projects, presents gadgets,int [...]
Arduino for hipsters is a workshop for beginners of the Arduino development platform. The idea is to work with people that aren’t really attracted to electronics as a subject but that have an interest in getting to [...]
David Cuartielles is at the HCI conference in Bangalore, India, and discovers copies of copies of Arduino boards: “If being copied is a sign of being into making something right, what does it mean that someone copi [...]
We have a blog where we share sketches and project ideas in new media and interaction design. The latest contribution is Face Twitch, a reaction-time game built during a tech workshop on rapid prototyping techniques comb [...]
I posted an article on the Arduino blog about my presence today at HCI India 2011 where I gave a keynote on the topic of prototyping, creating platforms, and supporting the community to support you as creator. It was an [...]
During the Arduino Uno meetup at ITP, NYU, I had the chance to be introduced to Paola’s and Cecilia’s ideas on the use of paper and electronics in the creation of new interfaces. That time they made a worksho [...]
Robots are becoming a common educational resource. Together with other applied science fields like wearable computing, or music instrument design, robotics provides an alternative door into traditional fields like math a [...]
2010 D. Cuartielles, Magic Piano at FARO's Clubhouse During the last two days I have been conducting a workshop for kids on the topic of electronics. The idea of this workshop is to warm up for a course to come later [...]
Well yeah, open source hardware talk at UAM Iztapalapa, a university close to FARO de Oriente next Monday. As usual I will be representing K3, Medea, my research interest, Arduino, and the Spanish Culture Center in Mexic [...]
This week, I am doing some serious community volunteering in the production of the Arduino Reference in Spanish. In the early days of the Arduino project, back in 2006 and thanks to the work of mostly 3 people, we transl [...]
Two weeks out of every two months during the whole 2010 I work at FARO de Oriente, a culture center in Mexico DF. The project I develop here between 2009 and 2010 tries to bring open source tools in FARO’s everyday [...]
One of the topics I work with as part of my research, is the creation of prototyping tools for education and how they help the creation of new businesses around them. I find very important the use of open source tools as [...]
