Arduino is one of the most famous makers of the world, meaning one of the representatives of the culture of do-it-yourself electronics, thanks to its open hardware cards. It’s an Italian company which however is becoming more and more international with the opening of branches in Shanghai, Japan and the USA.

The Arduino project was born in 2005 with educational purposes. The founders of the project met in a bar in Ivrea called Arduino, as Arduino of Ivrea, king of Italy between 1002 and 1014. Over the years, they produced cards with various features whose purpose went well beyond the educational one.

Arduino boards are open hardware so the circuit layouts are available and anyone can create clones or variants. This allowed the creation of an ecosystem of both hardware and software because both enthusiasts and professionals have started using Arduino in many different ways writing software released as open source.