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Arduino announces two new boards

Recently in Maker Faire Rome, Arduino announced two new Linux based Arduino boards – Galileo in collaboration with Intel (Yes 😉 ) and Arduino TRE in collaboration with Texas Instruments (the company behind BeagleBoard). Together with Arduino Yun, now the total number of official Arduino Linux based boards is 2. Intel Galileo This board is […]

Arduino Makefile hits v1.0.0

After several months of development, I am proud to announce v1.0.0 of Arduino Makefile. What is Arduino Makefile? It is a set of makefiles for Arduino, that allows you to compile and flash code into Arduinos and also communicate with it through Serial all using the makefile, without opening up the Arduino IDE. This is […]

Getting started with electronics at Maker Party

Mozilla India is conducting a Maker Party today at Jaaga and I going to conducting a workshop there. Maker Party ‘Maker Party: Bangalore 2013’ is a Mozilla Hive India initiative in an attempt to map and empower a community of educators and creative people who share a passion to innovate, evolve and change the learning […]

Arduino Y̼n РArduino based wireless Linux board

I was following news about Maker Faire in Twitter today and was quite surprised when I came to know that Massimo Banzi co-founder of Arduino, announced Arduino Yún, a new product that combines Arduino and Linux. Specification I was quite excited and quickly checked the specs. It is a combination of Arduino Leonardo (based on […]

Let’s Build Robots at Foss.in

Yesterday, I gave a talk at foss.in about robotics and how you can build your own robot using open source hardware like Arduino. About Foss.in Foss.in is a Free and Open Source Software event, which happens annually. Following is the actual quote from the foss.in website FOSS.IN is one of the world’s largest Free and […]

Capabilities of Arduino

Today, I spoke about Arduino and its different capabilities at Mobile internals workshop conducted by CIS. The talk discussed the different ways by which we can use Arduino to interface with different external devices. It was very similar to the talk that I gave at board hackthon, but I have added additional details about Leanardo […]

Talk on Open source hardware by Ian of Dangerous Prototypes

Ian Lesnet, founder of Dangerous Prototypes will be giving a talk titled “Profit by Sharing: Anatomy of an Open Source Hardware Business” this Wednesday (Oct 24th) at CIS office, in Bangalore. About Ian and Dangerous Prototypes Ian builds a new open hardware project every month at DangerousPrototypes.com. Copies of the projects are available from Seeed […]