Arduino

Arduino is the Italian company behind the open-source electronics platform of the same name. The project began in 2005 at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea as a cheap, simple way to let students build interactive prototypes, developed by Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe, Gianluca Martino and David Mellis.

Arduino S.r.l., based in Monza, designs, manufactures and supports boards, shields and software used by students, makers and professional developers, from the Uno and Nano to IoT and industrial products, alongside an education programme for schools and universities. The IDE and the hardware documentation remain open, and a worldwide community contributes libraries, projects and teaching material to the platform.