EU-Startups recently caught up with David Cuartielles to chat about Arduino, creating an open source movement, and his role in the CoronavirusMakers initiative.

https://www.eu-startups.com/2020/05/it-takes-a-lot-of-work-and-having-a-certain-attitude-interview-with-arduinos-ceo-and-coronavirusmakers-david-cuartielles/

This time I had the opportunity to speak with David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino, an open-source electronics platform, which enables users to create interactive electronic objects. Arduino has grown into a company with over 200+ employees and has bases in Malmo, Budapest and Italy. On top of that, David is also a professor at the Malmo University, teaching interactive technologies at bachelor, master, and PhD levels.

A man of many hats, David has somehow managed to find time to be one of the minds behind Coronavirus Makers, a citizen-driven initiative, where people collaborate on a voluntary basis to solve the protective equipment shortage using 3D printing.