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Hello World Camp

I’ve just spent a week in Rapallo, near Genoa, working as a teacher and entertainer for a robotics camp. It was organised by IIT (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) and SterrenLab and was addressed to boys aged 10 - 13. I worked with two colleagues, Lara and Luca, organizing the week and guiding the group during the activities. We stayed, togeth...

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Arduino for physicists

A week ago I had the chance to organize a workshop with Francesco Maiocchi, a colleague of mine, at the department of physics. The workshop was part of a wider project, LCM OpenLab, a series of conferences and lessons aimed at introducing IT tools & free software to physics students. Being a member of the LCM Staff and one of the minds behi...

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A simple, stacking, Real Time Clock for Raspberry

NOTE: The RTC module is compatible with Raspberry A+ / B+ / 2. This tutorial was originally written for a Raspberry B+ running Arch Linux ARM, however you should be able to adapt it to other configurations with few or even no changes. Lately, in my few spare time I tried to play around with the Pi. Looking for something simple that I could bui...

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Hello HackingBytes!

Here it is, my blog is eventually ready and online! After a long time spent setting things up, I finally have my own self-hosted website. This blog will hopefully collect tutorials, how-tos and infos about projects I’m involved in but also considerations and random thoughts on general topics. Being keen on many IT projects and interested in l...

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