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View all search resultsYogyakarta community joins Arduino celebration
A worldwide celebration of Arduino (https://day.arduino.cc/) was held on April 1, with reportedly more than 490 events organized in 78 countries, including Indonesia.
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A professional programmer writes code in the Arduino programming language using the Arduino development environment. (shutterstock.com/Golubovy/File)
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worldwide celebration of Arduino was held on April 1, with reportedly more than 490 events organized in 78 countries, including Indonesia.
Arduino itself is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Its boards can read inputs, starting from light on a sensor to Twitter messages, and turn them into output that includes turning on an LED, publishing content online and other related functions, according to its website.
During the celebration, nine community events were held across Indonesia, including in Banten in West Java, Yogyakarta and East Java.
In Padepokan ASA in Sleman, Yogyakarta, a local community named Komunitas Arduino Joglosemar (Jogja, Solo and Semarang) is one of the groups that celebrated the occasion by holding a one-day seminar and workshop, which was also streamed live on their YouTube channel.
Established on May 28, 2016, the community, which is affiliated with the Indonesian Arduino Community, currently has more than 550 members with the youngest one being a 14-year-old junior high school student.
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Community coordinator Lintang Wisesa told The Jakarta Post that the number of Arduino enthusiasts had grown quite rapidly in Indonesia as there were many online groups dedicated to the platform and students who were using it as part of their creative projects. “Its massive use has caused it to develop; nowadays Arduino is involved in Internet of Things (IoT) projects where we can control and/or monitor sensors from afar via the Internet.”
Lintang believes that people can assemble and operate Arduino even if they do not have a science and technology background. “Also, its open-source feature makes it possible for people to create their own platform."
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Although an Arduino competition has not yet been held locally, the platform can be implemented to hold other contests, such as robotics, electronics, product design and scientific projects. Lintang himself came first in the Hacksprint competition organized by Gerakan 1,000 Startup Digital 2016 (1,000 Digital Startups Movement) and was one of the top 15 finalists of Black Innovation for IoT category in 2017.
In addition to commemorating the Arduino Day, the community is seeking to encourage junior and senior high school students and women to develop their creativity using the open-source platform. It also plans to participate in the Creative Economy Agency’s (Bekraf) Developer Day event in Surakarta, Central Java, on April 9 and hold workshops at two universities in Yogyakarta in late April and May. (kes)
