Maker Faire Yearbook 2023

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Nectar

Faire: Rome

Maker: posti s.r.l.

NECTAR is an innovative project aiming to create the first agrifood metaverse, providing an immersive experience in the realm of nutrition and healthy, sustainable eating. This environment combines cutting-edge technologies to offer users a unique experience that merges education, experimentation, and innovation. The main components of the project are blockchain-tracked products and metabolic avatars. The blockchain aspect includes a wide range of agri-food products from select Italian companies, allowing users to interact with them in an immersive experience. They can learn about the products' origins, nutritional characteristics, and make informed choices. Users can also connect with the producing companies, gaining insights into their sustainable production practices and the food supply chain. The metabolic avatar is a personalized digital representation of an individual's metabolism, created using information from wearable devices such as smart bands and impedance scales. It enables real-time and remote monitoring of physiological parameters, providing data used to deliver a customized quality index for food choices based on simulated metabolic effects. The avatar tracks user metabolism levels over time, offering a comprehensive view of metabolic variations and responses to consumed foods and supplements. The personalized metabolic avatar (PMA) employs a deep learning GRU (gated recurrent unit) model trained to predict weight changes, blood glucose, and other physiological variables tailored to macronutrient composition and daily energy balance. The model allows simulations and evaluations of dietary plans, facilitating the definition of customized goals for achieving ideal weight. NECTAR's platform integrates metabolic and sensory avatars, blockchain, and virtual reality technologies to create a metaverse dedicated to agrifood. Avatars interact with blockchain-tracked products, providing consumers with detailed information on the origin, quality, and sustainability of food products. By combining sensory and metabolic analyses with blockchain, NECTAR ensures transparency, sustainability, and food safety, meeting the needs of consumers, institutions, and companies. The ultimate goal is to promote sustainable agriculture, environmentally and human-health-friendly food production, circular economy, and the reduction of food waste, following the "One Health" approach. NECTAR addresses various industrial, economic, and social challenges. It tackles the lack of transparency in nutritional information and the presence of unhealthy ingredients in food products. It also aims to combat the global obesity epidemic by promoting balanced and healthy eating. Furthermore, NECTAR aims to address social issues by offering affordable access to nutritious and sustainable food. In conclusion, NECTAR is an innovative proposal that combines emerging technologies like the metaverse, metabolic avatars, blockchain, and NFTs to create a platform dedicated to agrifood, promoting sustainability and transparency in the industry. Despite not being realized yet, presenting this project to the public can generate interest, engagement, and potential collaborations while evaluating market demand.

Hermes’ Friends

Faire: Rome

Maker: FONDAZIONE ITS MOBILITA' SOSTENIBILE TRASPORTI CATANIA - ACCADEMIA MEDITERRANEA DELLA LOGISTICA E DELLA MARINA MERCANTILE-

Hermes' Friends is an App designed to inform and monitor drivers engaged in loading, transporting and unloading goods services. The App will allow you to: -Inform companies about the real-time location of the driver -Report any road inconveniences such as heavy traffic, accidents, works in progress -Monitor drivers' driving and rest times -Locate rest areas Functions: -Provides real-time driving directions -Indicates places of accommodation and catering -Be able to book and review hotels/motels and refreshment areas The new technology will allow companies to have greater control over the work of drivers. Restaurateurs will be able to access the application and, thanks to the reviews, will be able to adapt their menu to customer needs.

Nothing Bundt Cakes

Faire: Tulsa

Maker: Nothing bundt Cakes

Home: Oklahoma, United States

Individually packaged miniature bundt cakes in 6 delectable flavors!

CrazeKraft

Faire: NW Arkansas

Maker: Ximena Toro Walden

Home: Arkansas, United States

Handmade products including etched cups, bookmarks, shadow boxes, coasters. Imported vanilla beans to prepare your own exclusive extract.

Holy Heaven Cookie Co.

Faire: Lynchburg

Maker: Melissa DeKerlegand

Home: Virginia, United States

Jumbo-stuffed cookies

Food Pairing

Faire: Rome

Maker: Sapienza Università di Roma

Food pairing is a method of identifying which foods go well together. Thanks to the recent availability on the internet of a large number of recipes and databases on the chemical compounds, it is possible to propose combinations based on modern data science techniques which analyze the food graph possibly enriched by the graph of their chemical components. The project proposes to investigate this graph, to visualize it in an attractive way and to experiment during the maker faire with some combinations in order to collect visitor feedback

CNC casera

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: erik moran

Home: ciudad de mexico, Mexico

Conoces las impresoras 3d? muy bien, conoces otros tipos de impresoras 3d?

Ploovium® – Predictive Irrigation

Faire: Rome

Maker: Soonapse Srl

Ploovium® is an AI and IoT-based cloud service for predictive water optimization in agriculture. The system is fully data-driven. Data are monitored and processed by two levels of AI: the first predicts the irrigation behavior of the soil/crop system in the next 5 days with 99% accuracy, the second processes the irrigation strategy with average savings of water and irrigation costs (electricity, fuels, personnel, etc...) up to 50%. Ploovium® AI methods have the Italian Patent, which has been filed in EU, USA, India and Israel.

Spireat un futuro sostenibile

Faire: Rome

Maker: algaria srl

the project we are presenting this year derives from the technological innovations presented in recent years and will lead to the request for a new patent, application presented in 2022. the project concerns the optimization of natural light on productions in open pond systems on the production of microalgae by improving the performance of production and returns on investment in technologies that are still not very mature, and which will also make it possible to improve the capture of CO2 which is already naturally efficient in microalgal production systems,

Gamification of Sensory Analysis

Faire: Rome

Maker: Simply SFA

To define the sensory profile of a product according to UNI/ISO standards, the test must be carried out in sensory booths; "white rooms" where it is tested in ideal conditions. ISO booths are not easy to find, so we decided to make them portable: the Sensorial Stations. These can be of various types: • ISO Mode a sensory booth • Desk Mode a sensory desk • MiniSens which transforms any desk into an ISO station But our aim is to highlight how the tasting of products changes according to the conditions in which it takes place. This is why we want to train and challenge the senses of consumers to recognize the characteristics of the products in any environment.

Saving Plants thanks to Nanotechnology

Faire: Rome

Maker: Università degli Studi della Tuscia

Nanotechnology could help us in giving a new life to agro-food waste by converting the main components of lignocellulosic biomasses in nanoscaled products. In comparison to their bulk counterpart, organic nanomaterials, such as cellulose nanocrystals, lignin nanocapsules, chitosan nanoparticles, exhibit a whole range of different biochemical properties, which can be exploited to develop innovative nano-agrochemicals or to deliver active principles useful to control crop diseases, such as fungal and bacterial plant pathogens.

Hill City Homebrewers, Brewing Demonstration

Faire: Lynchburg

Maker: Hill City Homebrewers

Home: Virginia, United States

The Hill City Homebrewers are excited to bring an engaging homebrewing demonstration to Maker Faire again this year. We will be brewing a base suitable for the ever-popular IPA style, but we are going to let you decide what hops are added!

Blended Desserts

Faire: Downtown Columbia

Maker: NULL

Home: Maryland, United States

Blended Desserts is full service bakery specializing in gluten, sugar and dairy free baked goods.

Wayaks Team UNAM

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mèxico

Home: CDMX, Mexico

Wayaks Team UNAM Equipo de Robótica con 10 años de Trayectoria, Fundada en la FES Aragón por estudiantes de Ingeniería Mecánica y por el Dr. José Antonio Souza Jiménez, además por el Profesor Neftalí Elorza Lòpez el cual actualmente es el director.

Subzero Delights

Faire: Edmonton

Maker: Shana Phillips

Home: Alberta, Canada

Homemade in Alberta! Freeze dried candy. Candy of the future! The process involves freezing the candy, then removing all of the moisture, leaving only pure sugar crystals behind. Resulting in fluffy, airy, crunchy candy that has 3x the flavour.

Life MUssel Sustainable production (re)cyCLES – Life MUSCLES

Faire: Rome

Maker: Università di Siena

The LIFE MUSCLES project aims at reducing the impact linked to the use of Polypropylene (PP) socks for mussel farming, promoting and creating an more sustainable mussel production value chain that minimise the dispersion of PP socks in the marine environment, through: • the transition to a circular economic model within the mussel production sector in the targeted areas through the recovery and recycling of polypropylene (PP) socks used for mussels farming by providing the italian mussel farmers with a mobile Recycling Plant (300 kg/day) able to operate directly at mussel farms facilities; • the increase in sustainability of the mussel farming sector in the targeted areas by promoting both the replacement of PP socks with ones made of biodegradable and compostable biopolymer (BP) and validating the feasibility of mechanical and organic recycling of biopolymeric (BP) socks. • the awareness raising of key different target groups and stakeholders such as farmers, distributors and consumers, on the sustainability of mussel production sector; • Definition and transfer of good practices to reduce the dispersion/abandonment of PP socks at sea.

Circle Fermenter – Feeding communities

Faire: Rome

Maker: Matteo Cappellari

Circle fits into the free and self-powered cycle of the fermentation community with the desire not only to delight its palate, but to increase its exchanges and visions. This sanctions a true symbiosis: the community needs Circle for its preparations, Circle needs the community to develop and expand its horizons. A fermenter that emphasizes the feeling of sharing that food often gives. The nature of such a simple food transformation reflects the open source character of the project, which is designed for digital manufacturing.

p.o.p. candy co.

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Rachel Flores & Bill Waiste

Home: California, United States

fresh & delish handmade butter crunch in various flavors!

HALLOWED GROUNDS COFFEE

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Hallowed Grounds Coffee

Home: Florida, United States

HALLOWED GROUNDS COFFEE IS AN UP-AND-COMING COFFEE SHOP, WHOSE GOAL IS TO PROVIDE HIGH-QUALITY COFFEE TO ITS CLIENTELE. HALLOWED GROUNDS WILL BE SELLING ITS COFFEE, TEA, AND LEMONADE PRODUCTS TO THOSE ATTENDING THE MAKER FAIRE. HALLOWED GROUNDS ALSO WILL BE HOLDING A PARTICIPATORY ASPECT, WHICH WILL INCLUDE A SENSORY DEMONSTRATION AND CHALLENGE OF THE DIFFERENT FINENESS OF GRIND FOR MULTIPLE TYPES OF BREWING PROCESSES (I.E., FRENCH PRESS, POUR OVER, DRIP COFFEE, COLD BREW, ESPRESSO).

KONA ICE OF LYNCHBURG

Faire: Lynchburg

Maker: Thomas Hamilton

Home: Virginia, United States

KONA ICE OF LYNCHBURG

BRH Animal Rights Preservation Club

Faire: Baton Rouge

Maker: BRMHS Animal Rights Preservation Club

Home: Louisiana, United States

Make sure to check out the Animal Rights Preservation Club booth to buy arts and crafts or sweet baked goods! All profits will be going towards helping our highschool club donate our proceeds to the World Wildlife Fund organization to help animals!

Wellness4lyfe

Faire: Lynchburg

Maker: Wellness4lyfe

Home: Virginia, United States

Best vitamins and supplements for everyone.

TERRAVIONICS

Faire: Rome

Maker: TERRAVIONICS srl

Data-driven integration of satellite data, sensors and drones with A.I. and digital modeling, designed to manage criticalities. Targeting climate change challenges: productivity, profitability, complexity. The current focus is on Agritech (viticulture), but scalable. Our mission is to take care of the analytics process. So that farmers can focus on creating their “unique” product, but at their best. By making proactive and better decisions. Alongside this process users are also supported in minimizing the environmental footprint by reducing the use of chemicals and resource optimization.

Spesabus – PlayGustibus Box

Faire: Rome

Maker: SPESABUS SRL

Online it is quite easy to buy tasting boxes but you have never tried tasting boxes for sensory analysis. Our boxes, made up of selections of typical products directly from small producers, are a game to play with friends and relatives, who challenge their senses with the aim of becoming more aware consumers. Tests usually carried out by professional tasters are transformed into game sessions managed online which can be accessed using your smartphone.

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