Loccioni Group , is an italian firm that sponsors every year a plan internship entitled "Classe Virtuale", dedicated to young students forthcoming from local technical schools.
This year, "Classe Virtuale 2012″ has been calm by 27 students with not similar backgrounds, choosen amid 120 candidates. After a saying practice period, during the three-weeks internship the group worked on a really good Arduino-based project: Flow Meter.
Here you may find a short talk you had with Daniele Caschera, a of the components of "Classe Virtuale 2012″, about Flow Meter and on how Arduino helped in its design.
Alessandro: Daniele, could you explain us what "Classe Virtuale" is, in practice?
Daniele: "Classe Virtuale", the partnership between Loccioni Group and local technical preparation institutions, has began in 2001 when Mr. Loccioni motionless to deposit on young students, by gift practice durations and stages inside his company. In 2010 the project, that occours on annual basis, stretched to 3 more scools and in 2012 it has reached the 12-th edition.
The objective of this conspiring is to sight and teach young technicians, by portion as a overpass between college and a actual employment.
A: Could you quickly explain us the "Flow Meter" project?
D: "Flow Meter" is a actual upsurge measurer: it has been written to measure the upsurge of all the students who have attended to the formerly editions of "Classe Virtuale", starting from the initial edition.
First, you have written a PHP web focus serviceable to gather the data reagarding all the participants to the formerly editions and, then, you used a few Arduino play to act for this amount of data in to a manifest form, by means of several LEDs.
More in details, Flow Meter may be incited on by laying the hands on it, that may be rescued by means of a few vicinity sensors located on the surface.
Then, it starts to uncover the collected data, starting from the initial book of "Classe Virtuale", by branch on a set of LEDs, organised in 3 rows inside a semi-transparent, white sphere. The initial row, calm by red LEDs, represents how many students are now in use at Loccioni, whilst the second one, calm by blue LEDs, shows how many people work or investigate in Italy; the final quarrel (again calm by red LEDs) presents how many people work or investigate abroad.
By leaving the hands on Flow Meter, it is probable to corkscrew by all the editions of "Classe Virtuale".
Finally, 4 tiny pillars, placed at the corners of the structure, act for the 4 schools entangled in the 2012 book of the project: a set of LEDs is used to uncover how many students advance from any establishment per year.
A: How Arduino contributed to this Flow Meter?
D: Many of us did not know Arduino at the commencement of "Classe Virtuale 2012″. The house has been introduced us during the initial practice time by a few electronic engineers at Loccioni. Then, you proposed to find out more data about it and how to adopt it in the plan on the web, on books and so on.
Arduino has been essential in the project, simply since it composes the "brain" of Flow Meter, by means of a set 4 Arduino Uno and an Arduino Mega, and since it is used to trigger the LEDs component its "visual" interface.
A: How do you weigh this internship experience?
D: This experience has been really certain for us, primarily since it gave us the luck to work on a actual plan together with really expert people and technicians. Moreover, since the group has been widely separated in to tiny working groups (e.g., those working on automatic tools and those working on wiring and programming), you have gained experience on topics that you typically won't investigate at school. Everyone has schooled a lot during "Classe Virtuale"!
This really good project, that has been presented on July 19 (the streaming of the eventuality will be existing here ), represents other e.g. of how open-source solutions may be used as efficient enabling technologies, even for informative purposes.
Great job "Classe Virtuale" and interjection for this interview!
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