{"id":3757,"date":"2011-12-27T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/arduino-and-the-techno-hippies\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:02:44","slug":"arduino-and-the-techno-hippies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/arduino-and-the-techno-hippies\/","title":{"rendered":"Arduino and the Techno-Hippies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/why_arduino_won.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/why_arduino_won.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690760418693878786\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Phillip Torrone over on Maker blog has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2011\/02\/why-the-arduino-won-and-why-its-here-to-stay.html\">a good article<\/a> about the Arduino, and what you can do with it. I especially liked his comments on the &#8220;techno-hippie&#8221; aspect of the Arduino project (\u201cArduino: baby-talk programming for the pothead\u201d), and how it might be &#8220;Italy&#8217;s Google.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Check it out:<\/span><br \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2011\/02\/why-the-arduino-won-and-why-its-here-to-stay.html\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2011\/02\/why-the-arduino-won-and-why-its-here-to-stay.html <\/span><\/span><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Will we soon see Arduino&#8217;s working alongside Raspberry Pi computers?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Torrone over on Maker blog has a good article about the Arduino, and what you can do with it. I especially liked his comments on the &#8220;techno-hippie&#8221; aspect of the Arduino project (\u201cArduino: baby-talk programming for the pothead\u201d), and how it might be &#8220;Italy&#8217;s Google.&#8221; Check it out:http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2011\/02\/why-the-arduino-won-and-why-its-here-to-stay.html Will we soon see Arduino&#8217;s working &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/27\/arduino-and-the-techno-hippies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arduino and the Techno-Hippies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,140,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arduino","category-italy","category-make"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3759,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions\/3759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}