Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an Interaction Designer, Educator, and Open Source Hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool, the V&A Museum, and Adidas.
Massimo started the first FabLab in Italy, which led to the creation of Officine Arduino, a FabLab/Makerspace based in Torino. He spent four years at the Interaction Design Institute Vireo as an associate professor. Massimo has taught workshops and has been a guest speaker at institutions all over the world.
Before joining IDII he was CTO for the Seat Ventures incubator. He spent many years working as a software architect, both in Milan and London, on projects for clients like Italia Online, Sapient, the British Labour Party, BT, MCI WorldCom, SmithKlineBeecham, Storagetek, BSkyB, and boo.com.
Massimo is also the author of “Getting Started with Arduino,” published by O’Reilly. He is a regular contributor to the Italian edition of Wired magazine and Che Futuro, an online magazine about innovation. He currently teaches Interaction Design at SUPSI Lugano in the south of Switzerland and is a visiting professor at CIID in Copenhagen, Denmark.
