64K Philosophy
64K offers real opportunities of hands-on experiment through machines and tools provided by NESLab and Polifactory to develop open source hardware / software. 64K members are encouraged to learn from each other through peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and to interact with student community working inside Polifactory or studying Design and / or Informatic Engineering courses. In this way all members are stimulated to grow their technical and creative skills as well their soft skills. 64K is also a hotspot of expertise where members have the opportunity to interact with design and engineer professors and researcher collaborating to research and innovation projects.
What can be done and learn concretely inside 64K? The Computer Club stimulates the interaction between electronic, design and informatic fields. All of this means learning to design and to follow the production of printed circuits, developing embedded software, but also analyzing and knowing a theme or a design problem, knowing the stakeholders, thinking at the role and at the experience of the user. It means design and prototype products and services.
64K Projects
Projects to stimulate the IoT learning
64K members have collaborated with Polifactory and NESLab to develop two projects in order to stimulate the IoT learning and realization inside design and engineer courses. “Larry” is an educational information display project thought for electronic engineers, while 64Kart is a tiny programmable robot designed for the Python crash-courses hosted by Polilfactory in collaboration with the School of Design.
64Key
It’s a portable device that integrates an independent wifi mesh allowing small team to connect autonomously. The basic idea behind 64Key is to combine collaborative applications and the network in one platform. In this way, team members can collaborate remotly.
64Key has been presented for the first time at SENSYS 2018 (Shenzen, China) – the most famous international conference about Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, winning the “BEST DEMO RUNNER-UP” award among 25 projects competing.
Federico Amedeo Izzo, Lorenzo Aspesi, Alberto Bellini, Chiara Pacchiarotti, Federico Caimi, Gianluigi Persano, Niccolò Izzo, Pietro Tordini, Luca Mottola, Massimo Bianchini, Stefano Maffei (2018). “64Key: A Mesh-based Collaborative Plaform”. SenSys ’18 Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Pages 422-423
