WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.100 I heard about this arduino project, and I saw it online - 2 00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:20.100 - and I said 'Wow! <00:00:18.100>a lot of people are starting to talk about this. I should check it out!' 3 00:00:20.100 --> 00:00:29.000 Because we wanted to make a tool for our students that was more modern than what was available on the market at that moment. 4 00:00:30.100 --> 00:00:38.306 For me it was a case of - this is a tool that I could see using myself, and therefore I could believe in actually helping to get it out to a wider world. 5 00:00:38.500 --> 00:00:44.500 Open source hardware means to take back control of what is inside things. 6 00:00:49.500 --> 00:00:55.000 We wanted it to be open source - so everybody could come out, help, and contribute. 7 00:00:55.000 --> 00:01:02.000 For me, that's about giving people the information they need to recreate the piece of hardware for themselves. 8 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:08.000 I'm really passionate about arduino... because I really care about understanding more about how the world works. 9 00:01:08.700 --> 00:01:14.463 My advisors said that... there would come the day when there is more computers than people. 10 00:01:14.463 --> 00:01:20.100 If every computer had a keyboard and mouse... and a screen, it would be impossible to command our lives. 11 00:01:24.100 --> 00:01:29.300 Then we started to figure out that there was a way to get a very nice ecosystem of people... 12 00:01:29.300 --> 00:01:33.400 ...participating, and making extensions... making derivatives... and helping... 13 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:41.400 So it's kind of like I'm taking one step up a ladder. And then I'm helping other people go further up the ladder. 14 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:47.700 So... we had to simplify the interface. And that's the beginning of a completely new way of looking at... computation. 15 00:01:47.700 --> 00:01:52.000 Arduino: The Documentary 16 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:55.800 The very first thing I tried to do with an arduino was run a 3D printer. 17 00:01:55.800 --> 00:01:58.500 ...so I make moving cakes and singing cakes... 18 00:01:58.500 --> 00:02:00.100 So we make puppets with the arduino... 19 00:02:00.100 --> 00:02:04.120 One of my students is building a guitar. 20 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:06.200 Here's a... here's a robot... 21 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:10.400 If I tilt, you see the light goes left - if I go up... 22 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:13.400 Many people have built helicopters with four or six motors. 23 00:02:16.300 --> 00:02:22.100 Suddenly a message arrived telling us that arduino... 24 00:02:22.100 --> 00:02:25.000 And obviously I said OK... this is just too much. 25 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.000 It ended up being a 17 year old who made the satellite. 26 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:45.000 Arduino: The Documentary 27 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:50.000 www.arduinothedocumentary.org