Cybersecurity and systems engineering expertise brought Ricardo Sappia to the attention of high-tech companies in Germany, where he has lived and worked for more than a decade. But his adopted home is a very long way from where he grew up in Argentina, and maintaining a connection with his South American roots isn’t always easy. TVArgenta, which he designed around a Raspberry Pi 4, allows Ricardo to call up video clips, jingles, photos, and Argentinian TV shows from his childhood. It’s also a powerful way to connect his German-born children with their father’s heritage.



“TV commercials from the 1990s are more than just short ads: they are memory anchors — jingles, lines, and little cultural signals that smell like home,” he explains. Ricardo says TVArgenta became “a cultural bridge” and a way to tune in to the world he grew up in. It’s also an easily adaptable project: from the outset, Ricardo intended the TV-surfing experience he devised to be something other makers could run with and adapt to their own stories.

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