About the Authors

Rick Anderson is Director of Virtual Worlds for Rutgers University, Co-Director of NJ Makerspaces, and Trustee of Fair Use Building and Research Labs. He’s also a sponsor and judge at Hardware Hacking Hackathons, and a featured speaker at TEDxRutgers 2013. Rick teaches basic electronics, Minecraft Circuits in real life, Arduino, and soldering for people of all ages. He designed the original Arduino Test Suite, and is co-designer of the chipKIT Fubarino. His multiplatform code for Arduino 1.5, cowritten with Mark Sproul, won the Blue Ribbon Editor’s Choice award at Maker Faire 2011. Rick is currently working on Morse’s Secret Technology, a series of steampunk robotics and Arduino projects.

Dan Cervo (Servo) is a project development director at MAD Fellows LLC, a research and development company started by Doug Bebb and Dan. MAD Fellows has embraced the Arduino and its culture as an essential cornerstone for scientific development and rapid proofs of concept. Dan has worked in ballet, jewelry, and commercial flight management systems. Dan is currently working on research in metamaterials, computational science, iso geometrics, and robotic control theory.