Arduino at Maker Faire New York

For those interested in electronics, gadgets and the whole Maker movement, Massimo Banzi, one of the people behind the Arduino microcontroller, gave a speech at the big Maker Faire in New York:



I have an Arduino somewhere and have programmed it, just to switch led's on and off, but it's a very powerful platform. I don't know much about the latest changes, but they seem to have created a version based on the 32-bit ARM chip, developed back in the 80's for the BBC Model B and now used in a lot of mobile phones, giving a significant boost in power and functionality. This may be as a reaction to the release of Raspberry Pi, which is a similar system and also uses the ARM chip. You can get all-in-one Arduino kits from the Maker Shed.