From co‑learning to co‑creation, how AI revives craft, creativity, and joy at work Needless to say, AI is on everybody's lips. Clearly, most people just focus on the most obvious aspects that emerge from the use of tools based on these technologies: the increase in productivity (when used wisely), delegating tedious and repetitive tasks to … Continue reading AI’s Hidden Dividends
How Web3 Technologies Can Supercharge IIoT applications
🔗 Since I believe that many readers of this blog are interested in Web3 technologies, I have created this post that links to another one I wrote for the company blog, which discusses these topics: Trust at scale: how Distributed Ledger Technology supercharges ToloMEO.
Playing with conversational AI agents in a business context — Part I
A few days ago, I posted a blog about the postgraduate course I am attending. To complete that course, I had to write an essay describing an AI-based project that I had worked on. The series of posts that I start with this first article you're reading deals with that project in more details. For … Continue reading Playing with conversational AI agents in a business context — Part I
Master di I livello in Filosofia del Digitale e Intelligenza Artificiale — Parte I
Da fine 2024, sto frequentando il master indicato nel titolo di questo post. Anche se non è ancora terminato, sta volgendo al termine e credo si possa trarre qualche conclusione su di esso. Vorrei quindi scrivere qualche articolo su quella che è stata la mia esperienza. Inauguro questa breve serie di post — rigorosamente in … Continue reading Master di I livello in Filosofia del Digitale e Intelligenza Artificiale — Parte I
Ideas for a DIY Smart Home: How to Build a Simple LoRaWAN™ Network from A to Z — Part I
Important update (2019-06-02) After publishing this post, I received some relevant remarks from LoRaWAN experts who are active in the The Things Network community. The most important is the fact that the system here described is not based on a true gateway because my implementation is not compliant with the LoRaWAN specifications. Further issues: The … Continue reading Ideas for a DIY Smart Home: How to Build a Simple LoRaWAN™ Network from A to Z — Part I
Ideas for a DIY Smart Home: Energy Monitoring
Introduction Last year, I decided to analyze in detail my house's electrical power consumption as I found it quite high, given the limited utilization of my home. I googled around to find a relatively cheap solution. This post describes briefly what I did to measure the overall consumption, 7 days a week, 24 hours a … Continue reading Ideas for a DIY Smart Home: Energy Monitoring
Class T Audio Amplifier with Integrated USB DAC and Bluetooth Receiver
Introduction This post is rather technical and describes a homemade class-T amplifier that I started to build in 2010. I consider it a never-ending project because, from time to time, I tweak it to add new features or to improve existing ones. For example, in the spring of 2017, I put my hands on it … Continue reading Class T Audio Amplifier with Integrated USB DAC and Bluetooth Receiver
Ideas for a DIY Smart Home: IP-based Video Surveillance System
Introduction This is the first of a series of posts describing some (hopefully) compelling ideas for DIY projects that you can carry out to make your home a little bit smarter. I have tested these solutions myself throughout the years. Indeed, from time to time, I like to "hack" my house in order to add … Continue reading Ideas for a DIY Smart Home: IP-based Video Surveillance System
True basketball
L'anno scorso ho scritto un post su come sia cambiata la pallacanestro negli utlmi anni. Recentemente, la FIBA ha ufficializzato una serie di modifiche regolamentari che rafforzeranno ulteriormente questo trend, snaturando ancora di più lo sport che tanto amo. Per questo motivo, io e l'amico Davide stiamo cercando di organizzare un torneo (denominato True Basketball … Continue reading True basketball
Photovoltaic data logger – Part III
Introduction This is the third post of this series. I'll describe here: The software that I have developed for the Arduino Mega board The IoT platform I have used to store and visualize the data collected on the field. Previous posts are available here and here. It is worth remembering that most of the choices … Continue reading Photovoltaic data logger – Part III
Photovoltaic data logger – Part II
Introduction In this post, I will briefly describe the hardware component of the project I introduced in this Part I. First of all, I have chosen to use Arduino Mega [1] because it provides four hardware UART interfaces. I have allocated them as follows: UART0 (Serial): used for informative and debug messages that can be … Continue reading Photovoltaic data logger – Part II
Photovoltaic data logger – Part I
Introduction I have been thinking for a while about a simple project that would allow me to combine two different needs. On one hand, I would like to experiment with some kinds of technology that I have not had the chance to play with so far, specifically: The tools used to build an Internet of … Continue reading Photovoltaic data logger – Part I
Lego Base
I have recently helped my friend Anna Brenelli to make the prototype she has designed and built for the graduation thesis of the Industrial Design course at the Iuav University of Venice, named Lego Base. The project is described in detail in this document. I have dealt—try to guess it ...—with the Electronics parts. Since … Continue reading Lego Base
Audiophiles
If you have been an Electronics student in your youth, audio amplifiers are probably one of the first practical applications of this discipline you have run into. When you understand the potential of Electronics, you become eager to build something with your hands. You know well that the satisfaction you get when you see your … Continue reading Audiophiles
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