Thought Leadership & Media
Press & Publications
For over a decade I have translated technical complexity into a language that informs, educates and inspires. As a registered journalist and author for national publications — from La Stampa to Il Giornale dell'Ingegnere — I pursue one conviction: innovation creates value only when it can be understood, shared and led. This collection traces that journey, from engineering roots to reflections on innovation and strategy.
Open Innovation Column
"Open Innovation" column
December 2021 – July 2024For thirty-one months I authored the monthly Open Innovation column in the official publication of the Italian National Council of Engineers, on how organizations turn innovation into competitive advantage.
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Interviews given as Vice Coordinator of the Innovation Committee of the Order of Engineers of Turin: technology explained to a general audience, where technical rigor meets the ability to communicate beyond specialists.
Home Automation — Interview, part three
Third part of the interview given as Vice Coordinator of the Innovation Committee of the Order of Engineers of Turin: the smart home as a concrete reality — interconnected devices, voice control and reduced energy waste.
Home Automation — Interview, part two
Home automation as the key to maximizing domestic energy efficiency: automatic and remote control of appliances, consumption monitoring and smart management of systems.
Home Automation — Interview, part one
Smart homes, smart cities and building automation: origins, etymology and differences — and how home automation improves livability, safety and quality of life.
Technical Writing
Over 35 technical contributions and three full courses published in leading Italian electronics magazines between 2014 and 2022. An archive that demonstrates deep, sustained engineering expertise — from hardware design to embedded systems — and the rare ability to make it accessible and educational.
Elettronica In
ADXL372 breakout board
Analysis of the ADXL372 sensor breakout board: an ultra-low-power 3-axis accelerometer, exploring IMUs, gyroscopes and environmental sensing.
Micro:bit series
2021 – 2022
Complete 8-part series on the BBC Micro:bit board (with Marconatale Parise): from the 2.0 board introduction to a full home-automation system — Plant Smart Monitor, connected pill dispenser, Tic-Tac-Toe, lighting control, Android Smart Home app, comfort management and Smart Alarm with RTC and ESP8266.
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MPLab X course
2014 – 2015
Complete 9-part course on Microchip's MPLab X IDE and the PIC32 family: toolchain, timers and interrupts, PWM and ADC, SPI/I2C/UART peripherals, embedded multitasking, USB Device and Host stacks, TCP/IP stack with embedded web server, culminating in the purpose-built DemoboardPIC32.
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KiCad course
2014
Complete 6-part course on the open-source EDA suite KiCad: project workflow, Eeschema and component editor, netlists and hierarchical labels, Cvpcb, Pcbnew with libraries, ground planes and footprints, through to generating Gerber files for a PIC18 demoboard built during the course.
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Firmware · Inware Edizioni
TI's OPT3001 ambient light sensor
Power optimization with the OPT3001 ambient light sensor: display brightness calibration based on ambient light, from consumer electronics to home automation.
Temperature control with the LM96063
Remote thermal sensing and fan management with TI's LM96063: a speed-control loop to reduce noise and detect system degradation early.
ZigBee coexistence
ZigBee coexistence with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other 2.4 GHz ISM-band networks, and its growing role in IoT and Smart Grid. Analysis with Atmel Wireless Composer.
Brushless DC motors and the C2000 family
Texas Instruments' C2000 family for Brushless DC motor control: hardware platforms and libraries for rapid development, balancing efficiency and EMI reduction.
Thermocouples and the MSP430 microcontroller
Reference design for thermocouple reading with the MSP430F5529, from the analog front-end to the integrated ADC — starting from the 1821 Seebeck effect.
A Brushless DC motor controller
Fairchild's FCM8201: a sinusoidal controller for three-phase BLDC motors, usable stand-alone or paired with a microcontroller.
An advanced Freescale thermostat
Two Freescale hardware platforms usable as thermostats: analysis of the reference hardware and firmware.
LED electronic lamp with the MSP430
TI circuit and software configuration for a low-cost, low-power MSP430-based LED lamp, focusing on critical component selection.
Atmel's XMEGA family and its ADCs
The analog-to-digital conversion modules of Atmel's XMEGA family: configurability and performance.
Non-isolated buck converters with the NCP101x
DC-DC step-down converters with ONSemi's NCP101x/NCP104x family: practical circuit solutions and variants for special use cases.
The bootloader of TI's MSP430 micros
Texas Instruments' MSPBoot bootloader: operation, features and high configurability, with sources available on the TI website.
ONSemi's CS5171 LED drivers
SEPIC application with ONSemi's CS517x LED driver family for LED management.
USB applications with MSP430 micros
Texas Instruments' USB Developers Package for the USB module integrated in MSP430 microcontrollers.
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