Between July and November, I was involved with the Accademia Digitale Ligure in a project to develop an Escape Room for educational purposes. Together with the students, we analyzed and created five challenges that had to be solved using skills belonging to this or that educational path.Choosing your path after high school is a veryRead more ⟶
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Introducing the Radio Game
As the Radio Game github project states out: a Meshtastic powered, Borges/Boal/Propp inspired workshop toolkit to make events participants get to know specific elements of an event The first Radio Game has taken place at Shenzhen Maker Faire 2025 which is becoming a very important moment for me to see old and new friends, andRead more ⟶
At MOME (Budapest) for Future Materials and a Gestures-translating TinyML workshop
In October I’ve been invited (a true honor) to join “Future Materials Conference” held by MOME Budapest. Besides having the possibility to share some insights about the patent meaning from a Open source hardware perspective, I proposed a workshop about TinyML in which we played around italian gestures as in Bruno Munari’s “Supplement to theRead more ⟶
Meet Osvaldo, the Meshprinter
Osvaldo is aimed to make ethreal messages physical, from the meshiverse: It all stems from a thought I had a year ago: how to save and somehow record these ephemeral-ethereal messages in our absence? Attach a printer to a meshtastic radio and see the messages coming one after another, a real physical representation of the conversations. ThisRead more ⟶
Cyberpunk Communication Protocols in European Summer Festivals – A Report
In recent months, I have been pursuing the crazy project of taking a talk around some major European transformative festivals, Fusion (DE) and Ozora (HU). To find out more: Then, invited by Smarmellati to UAO (IT), I brought a Meshtastic liquid experience called “the Marconi experiment.”
MeshBot – Control *almost anything* with Meshtastic
Meshbot: I created a tutorial for controlling objects via Meshtastic – Build your own on Github or Hackster The basic idea of this project is to create a small bot capable of field operations, or even a very simple BBS (Bulletin board system) based on microntrollers. This project is both on github as well as Hackster
How to make (almost) anything Sentient
Few Side notes after an interesting teaching opportunity for IED I shared with Nicola Brambilla from Mio Cugino in Milan. We’ve been using Sensecraft and other Xiao amd Grove elements to create sentient funrnitures
A device to remotely communicate with your special ones
RotaSenso: Feel the presence of someone afar. A connected rotary device that mirrors emotions and gestures in real-time. 🔄💙 #Valentines This project is a very humble tribute to a mania, a trend I’ve seen in the Iot-verse since its beginning. #“Valentines” A Little Bit of History I think the first project going in this directionRead more ⟶
The “Ozorian Experiment”
Along the last decade I’ve had the possibility to host Lutòpia, a wearable & decorations LED/light workshop in Ozora Festival. While I’ve been teaching physical computing, Iot, wearable computing and interface design in many different schools and institutions in the years, this little workshop lasting 3-4 days is by far the most extravagant and bizarreRead more ⟶
A Connected Factory in Pianura Padana
Some time ago I was contacted by Intercon srl, a company from Piacenza area, that produces different types of cosmetics at retail, wholesale and also for third parties. A medium-sized reality that is facing like many other Italian companies the transition to Industry 4.0, digitizing several monitoring processes and making metrics accessible-in this case-to theRead more ⟶