Introduction to the Museduino and Its Uses; Ideation to Open Source Certification; 2014-2022

The Museduino was born as an idea in late 2014, and we shipped the first sets in mid-2015. I went public with a post on Medium in November 2014, when we had only built and tested the most rudimentary version of what we thought we wanted to do. As anyone who works in hardware knows, creating a one-off is one thing, but creating something documented and shippable is entirely another. Staff and students from the Cultural Technology Development Lab presented a pre-conference workshop at ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) in late 2015. The Museduino was well-received by that group, and we sent each participant home with the 2.0 set and links to the documentation and tutorials.