I’m happy to inform you that, on the next 4 Tuesdays (20 and 27 March, 3 and 10 April) I’ll be teaching an Electronics Workshop at the Fablab Torino. During the workshop we’ll be designing a remote control powered by an ATMEGA 328p, so this will be practically an Arduino remote control, which will have an

Last Tuesday we had the first lesson of my electronics workshop we are having at Fablab Torino, thanks to the organization of OpenLab Torino and Fablab itself. In the workshop we are designing LibreMote, an open hardware remote controller containing an accelerometer, 5 input buttons and a battery which communicates wirelessly via Bluetooth. In the first lesson we prototyped

Yesterday we had the 2nd lesson of the Electronics Workshop I’m teaching at FabLab Torino. In the workshop, I’m teaching how to design our own hardware using a simple Arduino based remote control as example. The project is called LibreMote, an open hardware remote controller containing an accelerometer, 5 input buttons and a battery which communicates wirelessly via

UPDATE 2012-04-07: I made some changes in the routing of the board to avoid the via below the RN42. This should simplify DIY etching of the board. The new revision r1.1 is attached below. Yesterday we had the 3rd lesson of the Electronics Workshop I’m teaching at FabLab Torino. During this lesson, starting from the electronic schematics from the previous lesson,

One of the FreeIMU users, who bought one of our production run FreeIMU boards, shipped me his board as a faulty one. We promptly shipped him a replacement board but when I tested his board I found out that it was working perfectly. This motivated me enough to record this video (actually using exactly his board)

Do you know Femtoduino, the smallest Arduino compatible board I designed some time ago? Well, it’s an ultra-small (20.7×15.2 mm) board with exactly the same computing power of the Arduino UNO/Duemilanove. Perfect if you are up for ultra small Arduino prototyping. I released the designs as Open Hardware some time ago, and some brave people built

Back in late November I had a big crash with my quadcopter, then with the cold season and the huge workload of the new job at the university I never had the mood to fix it.. But, as soon as spring arrived, I had to fly it again. So, I finally been able to spend a couple of

rtsdrums on Youtube just posted the following video.. simply unbelievable. Great flying skills!

Today I discovered that FreeIMU, in particular FreeIMU v0.3.5_BMP, has been cloned by some China people and it is now being sold through goodluckbuy and ebay. Here are some pictures: So, what’s my reaction to this? Maybe you are thinking that I should be pretty mad about this, that I should report the cloning to ebay, call the police

I’m doing my first steps with Xbee/Zigbee, since I’m using it in a project for the Ph.D… to get started with it I decided to do a little orientation sensing prototype. I used an Arduino FIO as brain, connected to an Xbee and one of my FreeIMU. Here is a picture of the setup: Here is