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 ⟶
Tag: iot
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 ⟶
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 ⟶
Smart Foot Brace, a project with ITS Biotecnologie from Colleretto Giacosa
In the second half of 2023, I was involved by ITS Biotecnologie (Bioindustry Park) in the implementation of a project (Dynamic Step)that I believe has been successful at various kermesses related to the ITS galaxy. I saw it at the big Maker Faire Rome (“saw” it in the sense that I was there in Rome,Read more ⟶
Introducing The Hazard Response Mission Pack
We are more than honored to have started helping Seeedstudio as Rangers. The relationship with this innovative reality from Shenzhen, China, goes back in the years, but in this new role Davide has been employed in the development of new projects and implementations of the SenseCAP sensors and Helium connectivity tools (like Wio trackers). ThatRead more ⟶
ESPHome in Domotics: Configuring vs Programming
Like many among us, I no longer have a peaceful relationship with vacations: No longer just in August, good old times. So for a number of reasons that we’ll go into in future posts, I had the pleasure of taking a wonderful and in-depth excursion into a branch of home automation that I hadn’t beenRead more ⟶