Maker Faire Yearbook 2023
Projects
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Wi-Fi Enabled Stratum-1 GNSS Time Server Built From Scratch
Faire: Rome
Maker: Cristiano Monteiro
My hands-on approach to dissecting IoT from the inside led me to fulfill a long-time dream of having an on-site Stratum-1 Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. NTP is the decades-old synchronization protocol that keeps networked computer clocks accurate.
The best-case scenario for an NTP server is being fed from a Stratum-1 time source, that is, for instance, connected to the source of a VERY accurate time, usually an atomic clock (also called, Stratum-0).
A good amount of Stratum-0 time sources is constantly floating over our heads! The GPS satellites, each one carrying at least two cesium atomic clocks (accurate up to 1 second every 300 million years).
The idea of using GPS as a time source is not new, there are dozens of commercial products available doing precisely that. But my goal is to make it cheap, accurate, self-contained, dual-powered (mains and batteries), wireless-enabled, and portable to use on the field in my HAM Radio activities. Powered by the ever-expanding universe of microcontroller units, this goal is closer than ever.
Current functionalities:
- Internal RTC synched from GPS satellites constellation (backed by CR2032 battery)
- Dual voltage powered
- Backup battery for the whole unit (18650)
- NTP and RDATE (RFC868) protocols supported
- WiFi functionality as a client or access point
- Syslog logging
- Configuration webpage for WiFi and Syslog, saving to persistent storage (LittleFS)
- Informative display with a timestamp, satellites in view, accuracy, wifi server, IP address
- Dual function button, short press switch information on display, long press disables WiFi
- Status at a glance, with dedicated 5mm LEDs for GPS lock, PPS signal, and WiFi status, as well as visible internal LEDs for charging and GPS module statuses
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.
City Vibe
Faire: Rome
Maker: ITS Academy Meccatronico Veneto
This project is a hardware-software platform that aims at optimizing street lighting through the use of LoRa (long-range) communication technology.
Electronics and sensors detect the passage of vehicles on a road section. A central computer determines the optimal light intensity that a road section should receive during low-light hours. Thanks to this technology, it is possible to enable dynamic street lighting according to traffic, with evident energy savings, especially if applied on a large scale.
(Collaboration of ITS Academy Meccatronico Veneto and GDS spa)
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.
Solution for real-time pedestrian traffic monitoring
Faire: Rome
Maker: DROPPER SRL
Introducing Dropper's Cutting-Edge Urban Pedestrian Traffic Monitoring System: Utilizing advanced radar technology and 5G connectivity, it offers real-time data for enhanced safety and urban planning in dynamic city environments.
Elliptical – wireless design speaker
Faire: Rome
Maker: Dario Colozza
With more than 25 years of experience in the field of music production, acoustics and sound engineering, Elliptical represents the tribute in the creation of products for audio reproduction extremely accurate both in their design and in the audio resulting from the long experience gained in the field.
Sinuous and innovative shapes, cutting-edge materials and production technologies, attention to detail and craftsmanship are fused together to produce unique limited edition pieces that focus on sound, design and craftsmanship.
We produced Limited Edition Design speaker, entirely designed, engineered and produced in Italy, with Wi Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, that provides elegance and design to every part of the house and can also moves with you, thanks to its portability.
More than 5 years of development in our R&D laboratories to find the best shape and proportions to concentrate all the quality of the Elliptical experience in such a small space, to offer you a refined and unique musical enjoyment. Play music, radio, audiobooks and more from all your favorite services and take the sound from room to room or wherever you want, even outdoors.
The total absence of cables makes the aesthetic aspect of Alpha One extremely elegant. Control Alpha One easily with the app, when connected to Wi-Fi, and switch to Bluetooth® when you leave. For multi-room listening, add more Elliptical speakers throughout your home. All system components connect to each other via Wi-Fi.
Immerse yourself in an extremely wide sound field of deep bass and defined treble wherever you want to listen inside your home and outdoors.
Get the full Elliptical experience at home via Wi-Fi, even for multi-speaker connections, and switch to Bluetooth when you go out.
Elliptical is our tribute to music and beauty.
We are based in Rome, Italy.
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!
Git for Hardware
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Marcus Marshall
Home: United States
Allspice.io is a git platform for hardware engineers. Marcus will review the pros and cons of using Git for hardware projects and talk about best practices.
Vision All Majorana
Faire: Rome
Maker: I.T.I.S. "E. Majorana" Cassino
VisionAll application helps visually impaired and blind students orienting by themselves, using technologies such as Bluetooth beacons/GPS to locate their position within the facility. This idea stems from our daily school experience of living with a visually impaired student. The development status of the project is still in a primordial stage, but VisionAll will be developed initially in our school. Maker Faire Rome is an opportunity to present our project and show that our app can break down all types of barriers.
EUREKA! : “Datemi un filo immerso in un liquido, dall’alto verso il basso, e vi indicherò il livello”
Faire: Rome
Maker: Giuseppe Fiordaliso
The peculiarity of this project is that it allows the measurement of the water level in all those sectors where industrial-type measuring devices are unacceptable both for the costs and for the skills required for implementation.
This level measuring device uses a common insulated conductor immersed in water as a measurement probe. It consists of two parts: measuring probe with measuring electronics and microprocessor control unit. The two parts are connected via a non-polarized two-wire connection in order to simplify installation operations. The probe, of the capacitive type, consists of a simple insulated conductor wire, and can be made at a low cost and can be easily adapted by the user to his needs.
The measuring range of the device goes from a few tens of centimeters to several meters without requiring particular additional components or specific components for the type of application.
The measuring unit based on a microcontroller receives a digital current signal from the measuring probe and according to the settings made in the "user calibration" phase for the "empty" level and the "full" level, displays the value on a display of the level measurement in the range 0...100 %.
The microprocessor also controls an output relay in correspondence with two level thresholds (low level setpoint and high level setpoint) freely settable by the user in the range 0…100% through a simple programming procedure.
In the programming phase it is possible to choose whether the energized relay state must correspond to a level below the low level threshold or to a level above the high level threshold. In this way it is possible to operate an external device, always in safe conditions.
The measurement has an accuracy better than 6% and is characterized by high reliability because there are no metal parts in contact with water or moving parts.
Algeri-bike
Faire: Rome
Maker: IIS Algeri Marino
Battery status monitoring of an electric bike made with Arduino 33 loT via smatphone.
NAO & SMART FOOD CONSERVATION SYSTEM (NAO&SFCS)
Faire: Rome
Maker: I.I.S. "G. Marconi"
The Project, through the use of cutting-edge technologies in the IoT and AI sector, allows automatic and continuous monitoring of food quality through a digital olfactory system using gas sensors for the measurement of particular aromatic compounds.
The system integrates a subsystem for monitoring the expiry dates of packaged products using a barcode and QR scanner.
Thanks to the integration with the humanoid robot NAO, it will perform the function of technical support thanks to the vocal synthesis for the reproduction of the messages shown on the display.
Piaccadino^2 – titolatore automatico per alimenti
Faire: Rome
Maker: Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Piaccadino^2 is an affordable automatic titrator for analyzing organic acids in plant tissues. It uses Arduino, a pH probe, a thermoresistor, and a stepper motor. Improvements include enhanced precision, wireless connectivity, and Python programmability. Suitable for research and education, it offers a low-cost and customizable solution for more accurate and reproducible titrations.
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.
POWAR STEAM
Faire: Lisbon
Maker: POWAR STEAM
Home: Cataluña, Espanha
The world we live in is full of inequality, and social, cultural and gender differences that can be mitigated through education. Therefore we seek solutions to improve the quality of education in urban and rural areas through non-colonializing planet-centred technologies, for a more sustainable future.
We want to train citizens to become change-makers, that's why we design problem-based methodologies and objects to promote innovation and creativity in students while fostering other skills for the 21st century.
We investigate the role of education as a tool to strengthen societies towards a more sustainable world, in which innovation and creativity are skills that help communities become more resilient in different areas such as climate change and food security.
A LoRa-based Neighborhood Emergency Communications System
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Harry Saal
Home: California, United States
Sudden events, such as wildfires or earthquakes inevitably lead to outages in electric power, cell service, VOIP telephones, etc. So when the 'big on comes', how will your family be informed to prepare to evacuate or be able to send a call for emergency help? This project comprises a series of outdoor solar powered repeaters and in-home battery-backed up small devices with touch screen color display to receive and send short messages (think SMS) to neighbors and first responders. LoRa is used as the radio communications link among as many as 255 stations. Network management facilities enable administrators to see who is connected (or not), check battery voltages, ambient temperature, etc. as well as performing remote OTA software updates to those devices that also are WiFi connected.
Future Arcade
Faire: Eindhoven
Maker: VR Learning Lab
Home: Nederland
Maak een foto in de AI photobooth en ervaar zelf de vreemde mogelijkheden van generatieve AI. Loop vervolgens door de eindeloze verzameling kunstwerken in de Infinite AI gallery. Wil je nog een stapje verder? Werk aan je programmeer-skills en leer een 3D game maken!
Wij maken interactieve installaties, games en leerervaringen die je laten nadenken over de toekomst van de digitale wereld en wat voor rol je daarin hebt.
#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.
MyzharBot v5 – A fully 3D printed intelligent ground robot
Faire: Rome
Maker: Pizza Robotics
MyzharBot v5 represents the latest version of my autonomous robot, showing significant progress. This version boasts a fully 3D printed structure, combining aesthetics with functionality. Equipped with a formidable NVIDIA Jetson embedded PC, it harnesses the power of AI processing to extract intricate 3D details from its surroundings thanks to a state-of-the-art Stereolabs 3D camera. This data allows the robot to make decisions about its route and determine the optimal speed, ensuring maximum safety for those around it. By intelligently analyzing what kind of obstacles it "sees", MyzharBot v5 dynamically adjusts its trajectory, making it a versatile and reliable companion in different scenarios.
Opening Technologies for Smart Communities
Faire: Rome
Maker: WeMake S.r.l.
WeMake, fablab and makerspace in Milan, presents projects developed with different technologies and different impacts but share the same goal: to provide communities with tools and knowledge useful for the development of digital objects and services for the common good.
Specifically, WeMake was involved in research and development in the IoT projects:
- in the agricultural sector we have developed modules to save water and other resources;
- in the civil field we tested a monitoring system of a distributed network through LoRa modules;
- in the social field we have developed a wearable that helps connecting people in real life through simple non verbal communication defined by personal preferences and activities.
At Maker Faire 2023 WeMake will present three physical prototypes.
Smemobox
Faire: Rome
Maker: ITIS "Enrico Fermi" Roma
Smemobox is a versatile device that simplifies the periodic intake of pills and supplements. A beep, vibration and LED lights indicate the compartment and the correct amount of pills. There are two versions: a small and ergonomic one and a larger one with additional compartments. The device is modular and rechargeable via cable or wireless charging. It is compatible with Bluetooth hearing aids to send alerts directly to the user via an app. The prototype uses certified food-grade PLA.
SANITRON, SANIFICATORE AUTOMATICO PER CARRELLI DELLA SPESA
Faire: Rome
Maker: Cristian Vendra
Innovate is an innovative start-up operational since 2020, one of the projects created is sanitron, a device that automatically sanitizes the shopping trolleys used in supermarkets, warehouses, shopping centers and all points of sale that use trolleys to make purchases. The handles of shopping trolleys, in use at points of sale, are a real receptacle for germs and bacteria, this is because they are touched by many people every day, and are rarely cleaned, all this is ascertained by numerous scientific studies which highlight the danger. Today there are systems where the operator manually inserts the trolley inside a box, sanitizing it entirely; alternatively, we proceed through manual sanitization with disinfectant products by an operator.
Sanitron is the effective solution for sanitizing trolley handles, an easy-to-apply system that will be positioned in the areas where shopping trolleys are stored in warehouses, on the separation structures of the various rows of trolleys, with height-adjustable supports. The device is composed of an external aluminum casing in which the sanitization units are contained and a panel, inside which the logic control (PLC) and all the electrical, electronic and hydraulic components are contained. The device is applied directly where each user places the trolley together with the others, having a sanitization unit for each available trolley; when the user puts the trolley away and hooks it with the chain, a sensor, through the logic control (PLC) will detect the continuous presence (for more than 20 seconds) of the trolley handle, the continuous presence and the timer serve to avoid accidentally starting a sanitization in the event of a simple passage in front of the sensor; once a continuous presence has been detected, sanitisation will be activated by spraying the disinfectant solution precisely on the handle of the trolley for approximately 3 seconds. Once sanitisation is completed, a green LED will light up to indicate that the ready-to-use trolley is disinfected , the trolley handle will also be dry in a few seconds; this procedure is repeated for each trolley available in the area and will be activated through the consent of a safety sensor, detecting that there are no people in the sanitization area, in case there is the presence of one or more people who should keeping trolleys in the area will disable the operation of the sanitization cycle (in order to avoid accidental spraying in the presence of customers and operators); This device has undergone numerous safety and durability tests with positive results, and is also close to CE marking.
Customers of supermarkets and sales outlets are the protagonists of this idea, and will be very satisfied to see how one of the objects in common use most contaminated by germs and bacteria can finally be disinfected in the most effective way on the market.
Intellibreria
Faire: Rome
Maker: Francesco Onorati
Intellibreria is an innovative smart book storage solution that combines the beauty of wooden shelves with advanced technology. With its built-in RFID detection system, it effortlessly tracks and organizes your book collection. Simply place your books in the specially designed Portalibri containers, which come in various colors for easy genre categorization. The microcontroller manages the RFID system, while the user interface includes a touch monitor and voice control for precise book location identification. Whether you're a book enthusiast or a library owner, Intellibreria offers a seamless and convenient way to manage and access your books with just a few taps or voice commands. Say goodbye to time-consuming searches and enjoy the pleasure of a perfectly organized and intelligent library.
Parko: RML (Rome Mobility Link)
Faire: Rome
Maker: Khaled Atef Megahed
RML (Rome Mobility Link) empowers sustainable transport, school management, and accessibility through innovative RFID wearables and cloud connectivity.
