About

Projects and experiments in electronics, chemistry, machines, software, instruments and tools.
I am an experienced firmware, electronics and small machines prototype designer, former CEO of two companies and entrepreneur, I am also experienced in business management.

Why Accidental Science

I started making content with the primary goal of sharing my interests with likeminded people. Also making content on things I make, or for the few things I know is a way to share my experience, with the hope to be helpful to someone eventually. And my interests span a wide range of topics: electronics, computer science, chemistry and materials, mechanical engineering and tools, metalworking and crafts, music and art.

So what I do could be sometimes deemed as science, but recognizing my limits I thought to go for a humbler definition, that's why I called this space: Accidental Science.

After all the point is to share my experience, including what it went wrong.
I love making projects and performing experiments. So my tag line become: Experiment, Make, Discover, Learn.
Some of the work is filmed and the videos are published in the related YouTube channel.

About me

My technical expertise is on software/firmware and electronic design. I designed several prototypes, including some small machines. All them has been, and some still are in production.

I've been a professional software/firmware developer and designer of electronic devices for several years. For a couple of my inventions in the field of distributed computation I've been awarded with two patents. I developed NSC, a configurable, event driven operating system for the AVR microcontrollers, with networking capabilities. With my friend Paolo Marchetto we developed the Simple Field Bus Protocol, for fast multi-master communication for embedded systems. I also worked designing small machines and related electronics.

I have an added experience in business management, finance and marketing as a former CEO of a couple of companies, and having started two businesses myself, and I've been the manager of a division of a medium sized company in the field of electronics for twelve years.

Formally I just hold a diploma in electronics, and I never completed the formality to get undergraduated. I didn't have the time. Instead I invested my time continuing to study: data transmission, computer engineering and programming paradigms, machine learning. This ended up to be a process that lasted over the years and determined my very personality, so I went into expanding my knowledge studying a little bit of mechanical engineering, mathematics (which keeps to be my Achilles' heel), more electronics, physics and I even took a full course in chemistry a few years ago ...because, you know, it is not possible to really understand electronics if you don't know about the minute elements that form the matter.

On non-technical matters, I took a course in marketing, some basic concepts of economics and finance, philosophy, metereology (that was functional to gain the license of captiain for leisure ships, that I got in the eightees), business management, and music.

This site

The philosophy behind this website is to get back to the old static websites with little to none server side programs. So the design is purposedly simple and clean. The first idea was to be totally black and white or stroke sketch.
Though I ended up compromising with colors. Because I wanted a simple tool to make the content, just by writing text such as in markdown, and at the same time keep the whole content organized, not finding something that fit my needs I decided to make one myself. So I designed and developed BlogManager, a Windows application written in C and VB. If you are interested in this program take a look at the link at the bottom of this page.