Hernando Barragán (born 1974) is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist, designer, and academic known for creating the Wiring development platform as his 2003 Master’s thesis project at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII) in Italy. The

Arduino Arduino () is an Italian open-source hardware and open-source software, software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its hardwar ...

project is based on Wiring. He is currently an educator at the University of the Andes.

Career

Barragán graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the Universidad de los Andes in

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, Colombia. He then studied

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at the IDII in Ivrea,

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where he developed Wiring, an

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electronics prototyping platform as his master's thesis which earned him a Master's of Art with distinction degree. His thesis advisors were Casey Reas and Massimo Banzi. Banzi eventually co-created the Arduino electronics prototyping platform and based its

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on the Wiring programming language. Wiring itself builds on the Processing language developed by Casey Reas and Ben Fry at the

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. Wiring has inspired other electronics prototyping platforms such as Energia. In 2013 Ed Baafi, founder of Modkit declared Wiring “the future of microcontroller programming” during the Sketching in Hardware 2013 conference in PARC in

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. In May 19, 2017 Barragán was named Arduino Chief Design Architect. Barragán was part of the “Easy as a kiss: Humanizing technology through design Vision, story and impact of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea” exhibition curated by Gillian Crampton-Smith in the Circolo del Design in

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, Italy from May 7 to September 19, 2021. As of 2021 he is a tenured professor and the dean of the School of Architecture and Design at the Universidad de los Andes.

References

External links

Personal Website

Professor page
at Universidad de los Andes
The Untold History of ArduinoHernando Barragán
at The Index Project {{DEFAULTSORT:Barragán, Hernando Colombian designers 1974 births Living people Colombian inventors University of Los Andes (Colombia) alumni Academic staff of the University of Los Andes (Colombia)