Maker Faire Yearbook 2023
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La giusta via
Faire: Rome
Maker: Susanna Cattaneo
La giusta via is a game for children with the aim of teaching general knowledge and gestures. the game includes the base, a ball, blocks, and two types of cards: questions and answers. the child places the question card at the top right and the corresponding answer card at the bottom under the circular holes. from here the game is accessed and the child must create a path with the wooden blocks to get the ball (located at the top left) into the correct circular hole which corresponds to the answer to the question. if the answer is correct, green lights will turn on and there will be a positive sound, otherwise red lights will turn on.
e-Nable Italia – Experiments
Faire: Rome
Maker: Energy Family Project APS (e-Nable Italia)
Our community is dedicated to developing and providing free assistive devices for children and adults with limb difference problems.
All of our projects are either open source derivatives or released by us (when original creations from our community) as open source.
After SwimAble (the device for swimming, 2021) and the Bike Adapter (the device for cycling, 2022), this year we present the new ideas developed by our volunteers: the low-cost robotic hand prototypes and the devices that can help children to practice sports and in their free time, including an evolution of the bike adapters to be able to practice archery, a device that allows children with limb difference problems to play the drums and a tool for makers without 3d engineering skills that dynamically generates custom STL models of assistive devices adapted to the physical and anatomical characteristics of the recipients, to broaden accessibility to these devices.
#P&P2ESPy32
Faire: Rome
Maker: Bruno Luziatelli
From the Pick&Place to the finished board (the #ESPy32). Project that involves the presentation of all phases from the design of the diagram, to the definition of the PCB, by means of CAD, to the creation of the circuit, to the assembly of the SMD components, through the specially created Pick&Place, up to the passage in the oven at controlled temperature for welding and finally testing. Both for educational purposes and for Maker projects. The project could be presented in technical schools.
The project of some makers of Officine Robotiche, in the framework of AssoInnovazione.
Cyber Escape Room – attacco alla Nerd Corporation
Faire: Rome
Maker: CINI Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica
Thirty minutes to infiltrate the computer system of the Nerd Corporation to prevent the evil organization from launching a cyber attack.
This is the challenge to be solved in the escape room created by the Cybersecurity National Lab of the CINI (National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics) and the IMT School of Advanced Studies Lucca.
The objective is to raise awareness of cybersecurity and the relationship between privacy, digital and exposure to risk.
A team of volunteer hackers will be trained and sent on a mission to break into the Nerd Corporation's lair and to steal its secret plans.
It is played in teams made up of a maximum of 4 people, divided between a team on the field and a team at the terminal. The field team recovers clues and moves through the escape room while the terminal team uses computer tools to solve the challenges.
The challenge lasts 30 minutes and the complete experience takes about 45.
MACCHINE INTROVABILI… ancora per poco!
Faire: Rome
Maker: associazione culturale Informadarte
How to contain global temperature rise, or how to stop polluting? To such important questions we will answer with solutions which are simple, obvious and ironic, because simplicity and playfulness are children's prerogatives. Getting inspiration from Munari's illustrated books Machines and from Impossible Objects, we will invent new unseen machines. Hands will give a shape to thoughts, using drawings and collage. Art, reading and the workshop are tools, necessary to develop individual creativity, at service of the community. The goal il to educate through Art, and playing freely is our means to achieve it
RLP 3D Printing for Everyone
Faire: Rome
Maker: Nebula
Our project is to create an affordable RLP (Rapid Liquid Printing) 3D printer. This innovative technology allows physical objects to be designed by extruding liquid material into a gel using a robot. The printer offers advantages such as production speed and the ability to create large objects without the need for structural supports. Our goal is to make this technology replicable using readily available equipment, allowing makers and schools to experiment and inspire everyone's creativity.
Innovative buoyancy elements for snorkeling, scuba diving and deep sea applications
Faire: Rome
Maker: Rainer Kuth
Problem: During scuba diving and other deep sea / underwater applications common tools like lamps, cameras, knifes, fins, masks, etc. sink fast when accidentally lost, because their density is higher than water. Sportive divers with deep-licenses can dive up to 40m for a short time and tech divers for app. 100m after complex preparation of highly sophisticated equipment and training. Loss of tools is frequent, expensive and dangerous, because sea is deeper than that at most places.
Challenge: Manufacturing buoyancy elements
+ with a density significantly less than water
+ while these shall withstand high hydraulic pressure
+ while the buoyancy force should be exactly defined and independent of depth
is not trivial.
Solution: 3d printing / additive manufacturing using special parameters upon printing and optionally with hybrid processes support making buoyancy elements with individual shape and buoyancy force. With such e.g. a loss of a mask with individual glasses for 1000€ is avoided: the mask will slowly rise to the water surface for save and easy recovery. Making such buoyancy elements is possible with a 3d printer for less than 500€, a free 3d construction software and a free slicing software using special parameters.
Contribution:
I will show on the booth:
+ Free design software for buoyancy elements
+ Free slicing software
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Arduino nelle ferrovie in miniatura
Faire: Rome
Maker: GFTartaruga
The project is based on Arduino uno and is designed to make a model railway "smart", combining digital and analog systems
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.
FPV IoT Micro Tanks
Faire: Rome
Maker: Oleksandr Poliakov
Many of us still remember how, as children, we spent hours in front of the TV, playing the legendary Battle City.
And what would happen if the game was being developed these days? Of course we would want to play it over the Internet and perhaps with AR glasses.
But what if we went even further and brought it into the real world? Where we could drive around in a handmade arena, or in a hallway. We can fire an infrared cannon at the enemy, or at his base. Or just chase pets?
And since these are IoT tanks - we can control them from the browser. Or even write javascript code to control them!
RIVOLUZIONA LA TUA LA COPERTURA INNOVATIVA ED ECOSOSTENIBILE
Faire: Rome
Maker: HAN-GAR SRL
Our vision is to create a green, self-sufficient and exceptionally beautiful sports shed that is a beacon of inspiration for sustainability, well-being and architectural beauty. We want to contribute positively to the environment and the community, offering a place where people can train, socialize and learn, all while living in harmony with nature, a place that inspires and meets the needs of athletes today and for future generations.
OfficineApogeo – Energia: Sole, Vento, Idrogeno
Faire: Rome
Maker: OfficineApogeo srls
xperiments and practical activities for laboratory teaching to educate students and technicians about renewable energies, both with regard to individual components (characteristics and behaviour of photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, fuel cells) and as integrated systems in a real-life, albeit scaled, configuration.
InnovationGym con Fondazione Mondo Digitale
Faire: Rome
Maker: Fondazione Mondo Digitale
Fondazione Mondo Digitale ETS (FMD) works for an inclusive knowledge society by combining innovation, education, inclusion and core values. We have opened several Innovation Gyms in Italy: a physical-virtual environment for innovation and education for life. It is a gym for experiential learning and the practice of innovation in all its expressions: technological, social and civic innovation. At the booth we will show the main activities aimed at young people and their families: robotics, coding, digital making, media art, VR-AR.
WoodyMaker
Faire: Rome
Maker: Manuela Quaglietti
WoodyMaker produces objects that we have baptized original, special, beautiful "things" to give on different occasions, something that remains, can be worn or exhibited, capable of communicating data, messages and emotions.
The project is based on the creativity of a craftsman who works wood with new generation tools such as lasercut to produce "things" engraved with a "code" that communicates with a software platform created to give the customer the possibility to customize that "thing" and communicate something to third parties.
We went further… creating “things” that contain electronic boards and sensors able to communicate with the surrounding environment!
Our project aims to demonstrate how creativity and old crafts can merge with new technologies to create "things" that are pleasant to look at, made with natural materials, a new profession is born, the technological craftsman.
WoodyMaker aims to bring craftsmanship to the fore in a new form!
You will be able to see and touch surprising "things" at the fair that will be exhibited in preview, discover details and have all kinds of information, for the little ones we have created educational courses to learn the basic techniques for creating 2D/3D models.
PADEL CLUB VILLA MERCEDE
Faire: Rome
Maker: PADEL CLUB VILLA MERCEDE
Adults academy
Club membership campaign
Clinic 2/3 days
Gioco per l’allenamento dell’equilibrio divertente, autonomo e motivante.
Faire: Rome
Maker: Pellis Giancarlo
The practitioner is placed in front of the panel with a ball in hand. If able, he is advised to balance on one foot. the ball is placed in a special basket placed at the top. the ball is dropped inside the cloth which, using the Galton system, randomly takes one of the 9 established routes, 3 placed at the top, 3 in the middle and 3 at the bottom of the recovery area. remaining in balance the subject must recover the ball in the collection foot in which he goes to position himself and then bring them back into the basket. Each collection foot has a value. A software displays a GOAL to reach and checks the score achieved
Un gioco innovativo per l’apprendimento dei più piccoli e non solo
Faire: Rome
Maker: Stefano Del Bufalo
Learning game based on Arduino Nano v3, RFID and MP3 module to listen and learn an infinite amount of concepts by simply changing the RFID cards. the device lends itself to multiple expansions and improvements in all directions: game, culture, nature, history, etc.
Arlok – Simple Arduino 3D Printed Robot
Faire: Rome
Maker: Pizza Robotics
Arlok is a simple educational (STEM) Robot based on Arduino Uno with parts printed in 3D and all easy-available components. 3D-printed parts are big, easy to manipulate and can be printed even by cheap 3D-printers. Arlok is highly customizable: there are a lot of printable parts allowing you to make your unique robot. There are some programming examples that will make this robot moving around avoiding obstacles, following a line on the floor or let you control it using your cellphone with Android app. All source codes, STLs and instructions are provided on the Github repository.
Social and Autonomous robots: the MARRtino family
Faire: Rome
Maker: Fabio Ferrarin
Innovators by vocation, making use of the collaboration with the Department of Automatic and Management Computer Engineering of the La Sapienza University of Rome, we work for the growth of the MARRtino family. In the space of a few years the family has expanded and perfected it by creating prototypes of educational and "useful" robots. Everything is open source (hardware and software) so it can be extended in any direction without constraints, an evolutionary robot as we usually define it. Based on ROS, a professional software (ROS) used in the best MARRtino research centers has been implemented and tested to perform many typical Robotics and Artificial Intelligence tasks, such as intelligent navigation, human-robot spoken interaction, image analysis.
Bombeer srl
Faire: Rome
Maker: Bombeer srl
Bombeer is a bottom-fermented lager beer, born from the careful selection of the finest varieties of barley, hops and yeast, produced by Birra Castello Spa.
The particular fermentation process gives it a harmonious, soft and enveloping taste.
The slim body and subtle carbonation play in balance, closing with a clean finish that invites a second sip.
Due to its characteristics it is suitable as an aperitif beer and for consumption throughout the meal, even better if in front of a match on TV.
EGGS
Faire: Rome
Maker: Sapienza Università di Roma
EGGS are multifunctional chairs designed to inspire creative associations and playful combinations.
Children, like little chicks, play with eggs, a primordial form, a symbol of life.
From the opening of the eggs comes the surprise, with many ways of use, a lot of imagination to invent and create new environments to play.
The egg as a symbol of perfect shape, perceptible to all, easy to communicate and mean.
In the egg there is expectation, development, birth and transformation.
The colors of nature include a range of yellows for the yolk, ranging from light yellow to dark orange, almost red, while white is provided for the albumen.
Obviously, with a fantastic interpretation, we can attribute to the albumen and yolk colors different from those recognizable in nature, contrasting with each other, with a beautiful impact and very bright tones.
So I thought of two series: 4 or 6 eggs, coordinated and well matched in their colors.
By considering the interchangeability of the yolks or their halves, you can always get new combinations.
EGGS are therefore nice furnishings, which if necessary can perform the function of seating, foot rests, fun objects to play with your body, build and create attractive, original and colorful environments, .... all child-sized.
VirtualProSkills
Faire: Rome
Maker: ITIS Q. SELLA
VirtualProSkills is an innovative project by ITIS Q. SELLA school in Biella, involving teachers and students. It utilizes virtual reality technology to simulate professional environments, enabling practical experience in fields like mechanics and hospitality, including kitchen, dining, and reception areas. The main objective is to provide students with an immersive and realistic virtual environment for practice and professional qualification assessments, eliminating risks and wastage. The Oculus Quest headset is the primary tool, offering wireless VR experience with hand tracking. Real objects are integrated using 3D printing, allowing students to interact with them. The project covers various professional sectors, promoting realistic simulations and potential integration of ChatGPT for enhanced interaction.
Spazio Q
Faire: Rome
Maker: Quadro Quantico di Filippo Gualazzi
The installation is made up of a modular structure that supports screens and graphics in line with the studio's identity.
Spazio Q represents the soul and identity of Quadro Quantico, linked by the aim of uniting the real and the virtual, in search of new spaces of use through the aid of new technologies and digital media.
Microcade: Palm sized fully PCB arcade machine for STEM
Faire: Rome
Maker: microcade
Microcade is a build-your-own kit for making your own palm-sized retro arcade console. The kit includes all the tools needed, a "learn to solder" training board and video, and a custom library of pre-installed open-source games. It is fully made out of PCB and tries to push the limits of what can be done with PCB art by making fun-themed cabinets. We are working on a beta arcade-themed coding platform with 6 courses, from beginner to advanced, to teach coding and electronics through arcade games.
