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People on Europa Now: profiles of the founders and makers giving the European tech scene its accent.

Makers

Build Your Own Smart Doorbell: Arduino Shows How to Keep Your Data Local

Massimo Banzi and Andrea Richetta will demonstrate how to construct a privacy-focused smart doorbell using computer vision on Arduino hardware, putting you in control of your own data.

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Turn Arduino® UNO™ Q into your local 3D printing watchdog

Makers

Arduino UNO Q becomes a privacy-first 3D printer monitor

A maker's guide shows how to repurpose Arduino's latest board as a local anomaly detector for 3D printing, catching failures without cloud services or model-specific hardware.
Before developing AngelAi, Pavan Agarwal built reverse mortgage software later adopted by other lenders

Founders

From Reverse Mortgages to AI Lending: How Pavan Agarwal Built AngelAi on Years of Mortgage Tech

Before creating AngelAi, Pavan Agarwal developed ReverseSoft, a backend platform for reverse mortgage operations that gained adoption across the lending industry. His early career in mortgage technology laid the groundwork for an AI lending platform now operating globally.
Psychology says people who never write in the group chat aren't antisocial or indifferent — they're often the ones who read every message twice and feel the stakes of a wrong word more than anyone else in the thread

People

The Quiet Ones: Why Silent Group Chat Members Are Often the Most Engaged

Psychology reveals that those who rarely speak in group conversations aren't disengaged—they're frequently overthinking every word, caught between perfectionism and the fear of saying the wrong thing.
Psychology says retirees who struggle to find purpose aren't lazy or ungrateful, they're often the people who defined themselves so completely through their work that retirement quietly removed the person they knew how to be

People

When Work Ends, Identity Crumbles: Why Retirement's Real Crisis Isn't Laziness

Retirement doesn't just remove a job—it removes the person you've spent decades constructing. Psychologists explain why purposeful work can quietly prop up your entire sense of self.
Psychology says people who never make a fuss about their own birthday aren't indifferent to being loved, they've often spent so long making others feel celebrated that asking for the same thing themselves started to feel like a foreign language

People

The Hidden Cost of Always Celebrating Others: Why Some People Can't Accept Their Own Birthday

Those who consistently downplay their own celebrations aren't indifferent to recognition—they've simply lost the ability to ask for what comes naturally to everyone else. Psychology reveals the pattern behind this self-sacrifice and how to help.
Nintendo began in Kyoto in 1889 making hanafuda playing cards, then experimented with businesses ranging from taxis to novelty products before maintenance engineer Gunpei Yokoi’s homemade toys helped steer it toward electronic entertainment — and 96

People

From Kyoto Cards to American Consoles: How Nintendo Built Play, Not Destiny

Nintendo's transformation from a 1889 playing-card manufacturer to the leader of American home gaming was not a predetermined path but a series of experiments in packaging entertainment. The 1985 NES launch itself began as a limited New York test, not a nationwide rollout.
In 1975, young Kodak engineer Steven Sasson built the first self-contained digital camera, a 3.6-kilogram device that took 23 seconds to record a 0.01-megapixel black-and-white image onto cassette tape—and Sasson later summed up management’s initial

People

The First Digital Camera Was Dismissed—But Kodak's Real Failure Was Elsewhere

Steven Sasson's 1975 prototype proved digital photography was possible, yet Kodak's response and eventual decline involved far more than one dismissive comment. The company's struggle was not technical innovation, but the business model it had to abandon.