How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination | Massimo Banzi

[jessyforsyth]

Getting an Arduino board for my son. He is only 8 months old but dad needs to learn this first. :)

[DougHanchard]

Arduino should be a mandatory class in Elementary school (Ages 7 - 10) worldwide. The world would change in less than a decade.

[Mornys]

That's the great thing about open source. It allows the whole humanity to build on everything that's already build and it accumulates fast. And it still puts money on the move because bigger projects need infrastructure, energy, materials and workforce, and the creative workforce is effectively grown from the open source community itself.

[rebbie]

Honestly, this has opened my mind to understand that the possibilities of amazing things are limited to ourselves. I knew that there were so many inventors, but I never truly understood how they could invent awesome equipment till now. Such an inspirational talk! 

[KrisKasprzak]

Yep the Arduino is the coolest thing of all time--and for all ages.

[SEThatered]

All I can say: thank you for Arduino!
It is like giving someone fishing skills instead of giving them that proverbial fish.
Before I would've insisted on copyrighting my half developed work,
but now I can share my idea and get thousands of ideas back: one better than the other.
I hold progress much more valuable than profit.

[IseeRightThroughyou]

7:17 BEST INVENTION EVER! Matt Richardson is an epic genius!

[konstantinoszoupalis]

Arduino was the first step of me becoming and embedded software engineer you have no idea how much I appreciate Arduino

[justin]

I went out and bought an arduino a couple of days ago and it's the best $35 that I've ever spent. I've learned more about electrical engineering in the past two days than ever before. Just tinkering with the thing, learning what works and what doesn't is so fulfilling, seriously! I can't wait to get a project made so I can share it.

[vjduart]

Excelent!!! Thanks Massimo, Davids, Tom, Gianluca and all colaborators of Arduino for making this great tool!!!

[RaymondEmbry]

Arduino magic. Thank you for changing the world. 

[yebkamin]

you should provide links to all the projects mentioned in the description.

[mark]

I don't know why but Italians seem to be able to make jokes from nothing. They just have it and I don't know why we don't see more of them in standup.

[shahed]

This is the greatest thing I have seen for a long time!

[tanusinghal]

i am a proud class 8 arduino-er... it is so easy and cool ... i graduated from html from software side and lego mindstorm from hardware side....

[edoardodario]

My father once told me “once you have the tools, everything is possible”

[Oshiba]

13:40 so cool when you think about it was just a breadboard-/hobby project and then they cleaned it up and are in business with their idea.
All you need is the Atmel chip (because the board is just for prototyping) and create a “stand alone” Arduino and bring the cost to 5€ instead of 25€.

[joeloud]

Guys, they fixed the audio levels in the intro, so you don't need to skip to 0:15 anymore.

[banban]

When I'm in Highschool, I join the Science Club. And one day the Club President bring his arduino and start teaching us. When he graduated and I take over as Club President. I'm making it mandatory for the club to teach Arduino and have all the tools necessary . Now I'm also graduate from Highschool and enter University and majoring in Electrical Engineering. Arduino change my life and I'm really grateful for it.

[Zaekk]

My argument--the current "social movement" is themed by communication and sharing our perceptions of the world; lately I've gotten more songs and art than anything else, stuff that's meaningful and special to the individual; they're beginning to show their true colours.