Draft:Massimo Banzi

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Massimo Banzi
Born(1968-02-20)February 20, 1968
Nationality (legal)Italian
Known forArduino
Websitehttps://massimobanzi.com/

Massimo Banzi (born February 20, 1968) is an Italian designer and enterpreneur. He is one of the founders of Arduino,[1] an Italian open-source hardware and software company, and one of the first advocates of Maker movement.[2][3][4]

Early life[edit]

Banzi was born in Monza, Lombardia, Italy in 1968. He studied at an ITIS (Italian vocational school) and then migrated to Desio. He starts studying Engineering at Polytechnic University of Milan but dropped out and gets involved in Internet business. He worked at Italia Online, one of the first Internet companies of the country for a while and then migrated to London to work at Worldcom and Sky.[5]

After working as an advisor to Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool, Victoria and Albert Museum and Adidas in the 2000s, he got involved in the education program of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.[6]

Arduino[edit]

Main article: Arduino § History

In 2004, a Colombian student named Hernando Barragán presented Wiring as his Master's thesis at IDII. Banzi was among those that supervised the thesis. In 2005, Banzi, with David Mellis, another IDII student, and David Cuartielles, extended Wiring by adding support for the cheaper ATmega8 microcontroller. The new project, forked from Wiring, was named Arduino.[7]

In early 2008, Banzi along with other 4 co-founders of the project created a company registered as Arduino LLC,[8] At the end of 2008, Gianluca Martino's company, Smart Projects, which was a partner of the Arduino team for production, registered the Arduino trademark in Italy and then founded Arduino SRL along with arduino.org website, copying the graphics and layout of the original arduino.cc of Arduino LLC. This resulted in a rift in the Arduino development team.[9][10][11]

Banzi together with Arduino SRL CEO Federico Musto announced the merger of the two companies at the World Maker Faire in New York on 1 October 2016, forming Arduino AG.[12] Around that same time, Massimo Banzi announced that in addition to the company a new Arduino Foundation would be launched as "a new beginning for Arduino", but this decision was withdrawn later.[13][14][15] In July 2017, Banzi along with David Cuartielles, David Mellis and Tom Igoe founded BCMI, which acquired Arduino AG and all the Arduino trademarks.[16][17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Making of Arduino - IEEE Spectrum". spectrum.ieee.org. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
  2. ^ Eleonora Ferroni (9 May 2013). "Le fabbriche del futuro (in 3D)". Treccani Magazine. Istituto Treccani. Archived from the original on 23 January 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  3. ^ orsini, lauren (2014-05-12). "Arduino's Massimo Banzi: How We Helped Make The Maker Movement". ReadWrite. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
  4. ^ "Massimo Banzi". Computer History Museum. 2024-02-05. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
  5. ^ "Massimo Banzi: Re-make with love". 10 December 2012.
  6. ^ "Copia archiviata". Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  7. ^ "Copia archiviata". Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  8. ^ "Business Entity Summary for Arduino LLC". Mass.gov. State of Massachusetts.
  9. ^ Allan, Alasdair (6 March 2015). "Arduino Wars: Group Splits, Competing Products Revealed?". makezine.com. Maker Media, Inc. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  10. ^ Banzi, Massimo (19 March 2015). "Massimo Banzi: Fighting for Arduino". makezine.com. Maker Media, Inc. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  11. ^ Williams, Elliot (28 March 2015). "Arduino SRL to Distributors: "We're the Real Arduino"". Hackaday.com. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  12. ^ "Arduino Blog – Two Arduinos become one". Arduino Blog. October 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
  13. ^ "Free Arduino | Make". Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers. 2017-06-09. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  14. ^ "The Arduino Foundation: What's Up?". Hackaday. 2017-06-19. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  15. ^ "A New Era for Arduino: Original Arduino Founders Finally Get 100% Control". audioXpress. 2024-04-10. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
  16. ^ "Arduino Blog – A new era for Arduino begins today". Arduino Blog. 28 July 2017. Retrieved 19 Jan 2018.
  17. ^ Davis, Tom (31 July 2017). "BCMI Acquires Arduino AG and Makers Breathe a Sigh of Relief". techwombat.com. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
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