Planet Arduino

Last saturday, Arte tvl aired a short documentary in french language about Arduino. The video was created by FUTURE magazine and featuring Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles and Arduino users: children and young electronics enthusiasts:

Tinkering in a garage on a drone, playing with a set of lights with LEDs or even build a robotic arm worthy of a science fiction movie … Today, even when one is a novice in electronics all this is possible through Arduino, a real flexible technology.

They also created two nice short info-animations to explain what is Arduino and the idea of open source:

Plotly is  a platform for analyzing and beautifully visualizing data imported from Excel spreadsheets, CSV, TSV, Matlab data files, MS Access, text but also data streaming from any hardware device. Matt, one of the co-founders wrote us that they’ve  just released a beta of the Arduino API, that allows to continuously transmit data or transmit a single chunk of data from Arduino and then make interactive graphs in the browser.

They’re a quite new startup (just three months in) so if you are a scientist, student, engineer, analyst, maker and you haven’t test it yet, give it a try!

MAKE Magazine has just released Volume 36 focused on exploring the world of boards and including a detailed photo illustration of the evolution of Arduino.

You can have a preview of the digital magazine here and download a poster here.

Click on the image below for a hi-res version.