Maker Faire Yearbook 2023
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Insigno by MindsHub – Playful cleanup
Faire: Rome
Maker: Mindshub APS
Insigno is an open source cross-platform application, which has been created in response to the necessities of our local administration. Insigno enables its users to localise abandoned litter left on the ground, while at the same time engaging them by searching and collecting it. Additionally, this application devotes special attention to encouraging teenagers to use their smartphones more consciously, thanks to a fun gaming approach.
Tesori celati. Valorizzare e preservare il patrimonio culturale italiano
Faire: Rome
Maker: Sapienza Università di Roma
HW: 1. aims to enhance the cultural heritage of Italy in the areas of archaeology, history, art history, libraries and archives; 2. involves the development of digital products: high quality documentaries and thematic paths of discovery, for both on site and remote learning (through the use of interactive platforms); 3. is easily replicable (for 'Secret Rome' and some villages in Lazio, see Secret Baroque - Sapienza Third Mission Project 2021); 4. aims to derive significant benefits both in scientific-academic circles and for the development of sustainable tourism and cultural awareness
The Nekolympic
Faire: Rome
Maker: Ichiro Shimomura
The Nekolympic is a project, to create sports games ,that can be used for fitness in the room ,by combining Scratch, micro:bit, and exercise equipments.
"Nekolympic" is a coined word that combines the Japanese "ne-ko",it means a cat, and the Olympics.
Micro:bit senses the movement of exercise equipment and reflects it on the movement of Scratchcat in the screen.
The importance of this project is that children can experience STEAM by creating their own sports games.
We use cheap exercise equipment, and some have replaced kitchenware.
Of cource ,you can play sports games on Nintendo game console, but the importance of this project is that children can experience STEAM by creating their own games.
Learn From Gaming In The EdTech Area
Faire: Rome
Maker: Italian Video Game Academy
Gaming is a rapidly growing phenomenon that has long transcended the boundaries of pure entertainment. The video game industry has reached significant proportions, extending to the point where it culturally influences multiple generations. Video games are becoming increasingly complex and engaging, naturally generating new opportunities for the development of digital, professional, and social skills. Today, we can define it as a diverse universe rich in opportunities, stimuli, and challenges. Gaming is, in fact, also a tool for education, a professional alternative, but also a new language for transferring knowledge, connecting the real world to the digital one.
Business Models for supporting Innovation Startups
Faire: Rome
Maker: Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Innovation with a formalized Business Model identifies a successful Startup ready to face the market. The organizational and gamification tools are "accelerators" that allow the identification of the elements of one's corporate architecture, the potential customer, the distribution channels and one's profitability, but above all to define the experience that the customer will have to experience in using the innovative product/service. An effective and "cost effective" consultancy for those who want to digitally change or innovate their Business Model.
USE OF AI FOR THE MAPPING OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL XENBIOTIC CONTAMINATION USING TERRITORIAL MICRO-SAMPLING CARRIED OUT BY BEES
Faire: Rome
Maker: FOSAN ETS
Bees play a fundamental role in ecosystems and are present throughout the territory (at our latitude).
The bee carries out its collection and pollination activity in a radius ranging between 2 and 10 km, and is attracted only by plants and clean water, avoiding contact with any waste and/or waste material.
Every day, on average, a worker bee visits up to 7,000 flowers, fulfilling its very important role for the ecosystem.
Any xenobiotic contamination present in the materials collected by bees and derived products are representative of the contamination of the flora and surface waters of the area where the hive is located.
Fosan is starting the creation of a mapping of sentinel hives located throughout the country, in order to monitor the conditions of environmental risk from xenobiotic contamination.
The analytical data referring to the samples taken in the various "sentinel hives" are processed with AI techniques to identify level curves of xenobiotic contamination and related hotspots, and the presumed connections with human activities. With AI, the presumed correlations between the recorded anthropic activities and the levels of contamination of the hive products are identified.
Outdoor education for all
Faire: Rome
Maker: Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Outdoor education for all is a pedagogical Project aimed to introduce schools, children and students to the idea of cultural heritage and material culture. By selecting one artistic monument children and students are able to appreciate the local heritage and create their own products. Sharing the Opera is a valuable moment to show how the past can be renovate in the present in theory and in practice.
Indagini elettromagnetiche sub-superficiali e analisi di dati per l’archeologia e i beni culturali
Faire: Rome
Maker: Sapienza Università di Roma
Use of Georadar (or Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR) and electromagnetic diagnostic techniques for subsurface investigations of cultural heritage and archaeological/paleontological sites/resources; application to experimental results of data analysis and artificial intelligence techniques (Machine Learning, ML; Deep Learning, DL)
Rome Technopole
Faire: Rome
Maker: Rome Technopole Spoke 5 CNR
Rome Technopole is an ecosystem comprising universities, research institutions, industries, and administrative bodies in Regione Lazio. Its core mission is innovation and sustainable development. Through activities and educational materials, it fosters knowledge dissemination and promote a culture of innovation. A series of examples will be presented during the Fair, including experiences on light properties based on laser-cut plexiglass, DNA and RNA models illustrating protein synthesis, games exploring quantum mechanics and other scientific principles.
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.
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.
Linea di Semina Automatica
Faire: Rome
Maker: I.T.I.S Don Giuseppe Morosini
Our project consists in an automatic seeding line which aims to be an example of 4.0 Industry and sustainable development. For this reason the machine has been built using recycled materials in order to minimize the production costs and the environmental impact. The project includes electrical/plant engineering, electro-pneumatic and mechanical designs, all managed by a PLC and an Arduino board for the acquisition of analog values with the possibility to view everything from an HMI (Human Machine Interface).
CYCLED YOU
Faire: Rome
Maker: cycled
CYCLED YOU transform a rubber stripe into unique belts and accessories crafted with our hands.Â
The wearer gives them an opportunity to live a new eternal life.Â
We work passionately on treating materials, dedicating to each product the time it deserves.Â
Each Cycled product is 100%Â Made in Italy, from raw material collection, to sewing, packing, and shipping.
â®âBy creating Belts and Accessories with our hands, we reawaken memories held within the tyre, memories of unique moments in sports and life. We work hard, inspired by our grandparents, and we are honoured to carry on the tradition of craftsmanship in a modern and relevant way.â
WHY WE DO IT
We want to do our part, making something concrete to transform a virtuous intent (give a longer life to objects protecting the environment) into reality.
We believe in sustainable production and innovation.
We want to make people aware about the necessity to protect the environment.
We want to help nature, extending the lifecycle of something existing to create new products which are cool because they respect the environment.
We want to become a reference point in the ecological up-cycling market segment.
We want to take our philosophy in the apparel and urban life-style world.
We want to build our reputation of young entrepreneurs and craftsman.
Robotic sorting plant – controlled by PLCs via WEBapp
Faire: Rome
Maker: Itis Paleocapa
The system, based on a Scorbot Er3 robotic arm and a Fishertechnik education kit, sorts different incoming materials by colour, weight ans size, thrugh different processes. The automation, controlled by S7-1200 PLCs, and supervised by a S7-1500 controller, is managed by an operator through an HMI display or through a webApp. It can be used to reach optimization and sustainability goals. The PLCs are able to manage a wide variety of information.
ITS-SCAN
Faire: Rome
Maker: FONDAZIONE I.T.S. AREA TECNOLOGICA DELL’EFFICIENZA ENERGETICA RISPARMIO ENERGETICO E NUOVE TECNOLOGIE IN BIOEDILIZIA (ITS Red Academy)
We have created an app that from the information saved on an online sheet creates a unique QR-Code. With a simple scan we can connect to the digital element provided by the designer, record date-time of arrival at the construction site, indicate the mounting status and transfer this information back into the BIM model. All through functions and free applications that are already in our smartphone
Future Makers 4 Sustainability
Faire: Rome
Maker: Cooperativa sociale a r.l. Impresa Sociale
A sustainable society is made up of many ingredients: inclusion, technology, health, research, rights and clean energy. Education, awareness, exchange between generations are the red threads that link them and make them interact. This is a place that wants to convey a new concept of sustainability: from environmental to social, up to correct lifestyles and a correct cultural approach. In this logic, all these elements are fundamental for thinking the future. Future without the protection of the rights of the world and of people cannot exist and there cannot be a sustainable world without innovation and technology.
This is the mission of Future Makers 4 Sustainability at Maker Faire: to bring builders of the future together to give hope and tools to those of tomorrow.
Time4child, ENEA, World Food Programme, CNR, Arci Solidarietà, Sea Shepherd, Jane Goodall Foundation. Together with 6 laboratories to imagine a just future.
PADEL CLUB VILLA MERCEDE
Faire: Rome
Maker: PADEL CLUB VILLA MERCEDE
Adults academy
Club membership campaign
Clinic 2/3 days
Le Strutture Tremano
Faire: Rome
Maker: Gruppo MCGM
The system consists of a base and 24 shapes. On the base, there are two vibrating plates, one for each child, who takes turns placing a shape corresponding to the color shown on the central button. The goal for the child is to build a structure as tall as possible, trying to keep it steady after the vibrations, level by level. The first player whose construction falls, loses. There are 6 shapes provided for each color, corresponding to randomly changing LEDs, making the game dynamic with varying levels of difficulty dictated by the shapes themselves. It is simple, affordable, and intuitive.
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.
Robotics, Science and Coding Education course for primary and middle schools.
Faire: Rome
Maker: corsi di formazione di robotica educativa, programmazione e STEAM per bambini dai 5 ai 14 anni
Code Academy provides education course for schools of robotics, technology and coding to cultivate the passion of the new generations to study sciences and create robots.
We organize various workshop for children 6-8, 9-12 and 12-14 years old lasting 60 min. with our teachers. The kids will build and write codes for interactive robots such as:
* electric bicycle with graph of energy consumption on different surfaces (Scratch programming)
* earthquake simulator with earthquake solutions
* experimentation with electric circuit through percussion on sensors and programming with Micro: bit
* innovative energy sources such as wind turbine
We exhibit the presentations of the various projects created by our students (age 9-14):
* solar panels with light reflection sensors that follow the light source and modulated to follow the sun's shift cycle to produce more energy
* robots that collect wave energy with variables coded to calculate the energy produced
GRABER-robotic hand: allows you to collect garbage safely.
Dalla prospettiva ai modelli fisici dello spazio architettonico in un’opera di Perugino
Faire: Rome
Maker: Sapienza Università di Roma
The perspective study of a panel from the “Storie di san Bernardino” attributed to Perugino revealed a contracted space, represented in three dimensions by the ‘objective model’. In contrast, the ‘ideal model’ eliminates the deformation and maintains the architectural proportions. The installation creates a physical model that allows even non-specialist audiences to appreciate the scientific results by positioning the eye (or camera) at the fixed viewpoint to verify the overlap between the view of architectural model and the painter’s perspective.
Insetti, il Cibo del Futuro – Small Giants
Faire: Rome
Maker: Small Giants srl
Made with insect flour, our award-winning products are mega tasty and packed full with planet-positive protein, fibre and vitamins. We want to lead the transition to a new phase where eating insects is part of our daily eating habits. We are a young team highly motivated to break the edible insects taboo with unruly tasty snacks and make the weird wonderful!
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.
Safecutter
Faire: Rome
Maker: Mr Beam Lasers GmbH
The "Safecutter" project is a collaboration between scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP) Greifswald and the Munich-based company Mr Beam Lasers GmbH, which specialises in the construction and sale of desktop laser cutting systems.
With a desktop laser cutter, detailed engravings and the cutting of many different materials are possible. A perfect introduction to the world of lasers. Until now, this technology could only be used industrially. The reason was mainly the high acquisition costs and the potential danger.
Since, depending on the material, different, sometimes toxic gases and vapours can be produced during the cutting process and the laser cutters are operated indoors, we are looking into how laser cutting can be made safer with regard to the exhaust gases in our research work.
The focus is thus on ensuring safety. By:
- hazardous material is detected before use
- cleaning up any waste gases produced
- analysing the composition of the exhaust gas
- a safety shutdown is integrated
Another important aspect of the work is the accessibility of laser cutting for the masses. Therefore, we designed low cost methods that make the purchase of the final product financially justifiable for the user and still reduce the dangers to a minimum.
Ultimately, it is important for us to invest in this research topic because laser cutters and products of this kind should be available to a broad mass. But safe.
Laser safe.
The project was supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the "Open Photonik Pro" funding measure of the "Photonik Forschung Deutschland" programme. The funding measure is intended to enable new forms of cooperation between science and industry and the maker and start-up scene.
