---
id: arduino
title: "Arduino / Maker"
year: 2005
category: "AI & Code"
lang: en
canonical: https://nodemusic.cc/node/arduino
source: node.music
---

# Arduino / Maker (2005)

AI & Code · https://nodemusic.cc/node/arduino

## Summary

Do It Yourself. Arduino gave musicians the ability to solder their own controllers for pennies. Electronics became tactile, hacker-driven, and accessible again.

## Full text

The Arduino platform revolutionized DIY. Cheap microcontrollers allowed musicians and artists to create their own unique MIDI controllers and synthesizers without an engineering degree.

Instruments made from fruit, plants, old phones, or clothing became reality. Arduino returned tactility to the digital era, connecting software code (Max, Pd) with the physical world of sensors and motors.

## Connections

### Influenced by

- [MIDI](https://nodemusic.cc/node/midi.md) - ENABLED
- [STEIM](https://nodemusic.cc/node/steim.md) - INSPIRED

### Influenced

- [NIME](https://nodemusic.cc/node/nime.md) - ENABLED

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino