An Escape Room for Educational Orienteering – A Student’s Project

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 ⟶

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 ⟶

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

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 ⟶

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 ⟶

Ruralhack(s), Remote Monitoring and IoT in the field

There are many meanings and stories underneath the workshop we hosted during the years 2014-2019 in the field of Rural & Urban farming. For many, they were the first ever IoT workshop they enrolled to, for us a way to explore new scenarios and landscapes, in constant evolution. These workshop allowed me to mend theRead more ⟶