Keep your eye on our 10 Weeks of Gift Ideas – more tips 'n' tales for holiday shopping. Next week brings our friend Craig to remind us that Legos aren't just for kids.
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Vandad wants to make things talk. Actually, he's always wanted to, he just hasn't known how. Trained as a sculptor, Vandad won a scholarship to study art at the Academia dei Belle Arti, in Florence in 1961 and left India behind. But the years change a person, and after several decades abroad, Vandad was ready to return home to teach art in a small college in Calcutta. Refreshed by the people, foods, smells, and customs of his native culture, Vandad settled down. But he still couldn't make things talk. Vandad had a vision. He wanted his pieces to move, to bend, to walk—to interact. Meanwhile, back in Italy, scholars at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea came up with a simple microcontroller called an Arduino that artists could use to do just that. He could imagine so many uses for it. Soon the tech crowd learned what Vandad already knew, and the Arduino revolutionized the tech world, too. What's at the top of Vandad's wishlist this season? Making Things See and Making Things Talk. Give Vandad the gift that will bring his vision to life. |
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