Maker Faire Yearbook 2023
Projects
Found 107 Results
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.
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.
Elaisian – Il Sistema di Supporto alle Decisioni in agricoltura
Faire: Rome
Maker: Elaisian srl
Elaisian offers a precision agriculture service to prevent diseases in olive groves, vineyards, and almond orchards and to have a continuous decision support system (SSD) for field interventions. The service is based on SSDs related to pest management and SSDs related to satellite imagery (for all crops). This enables farmers to reduce phytosanitary treatments and optimize fertilization and irrigation.
Elaisian offers the installation of weather stations in the field connected to an app where notifications and alerts on pathogen development are sent. We have different types of services that allow us to give accessibility to farms of all sizes and therefore with different economic possibilities. The following sections are available in the app: 5-day weather forecast, self-set alerts (weather parameter, value range, message sending interval), notifications (non-severe messages on plant and pathogen development), alerts (threshold severity messages), field notebook (linked to algorithms), map and reports from satellite images.
The pathogen forecasting service is applied for olive groves, vineyards and almond orchards. Through the use of proprietary algorithms we are able to calculate the development of pathogens and plants, which, when correlated, allow us to calculate the infection rate of pathogens with high accuracy.
We also use satellite images to calculate vegetation and water indices that are useful for monitoring soils and always have a control for optimizing fertilization and irrigation.
WINE SPACE
Faire: Rome
Maker: RICCARDO SUSINNO
Wine Space is a startup specializing in the production of innovative multimedia content. We specialize in Virtual Reality and the metaverse to offer new sales solutions in the Italian wine industry. We provide a wide range of services to wineries to explore new forms of wine communication and enjoyment.
Prototype for Glasses-free Live 3D Vision
Faire: Rome
Maker: ICTP Scientific FabLab
We present our "altiro3D" prototype for a glasses-free real-time 3D vision based on a new C++ library developed to generate light-fields (or Native) 3D images or videos from a single webcam and in real-time, plus the use of a free-view LCD display such as the slanted lenticular device: "Looking Glass Portrait". Details at: https://github.com/canessae/altiro3D
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.
Arduino IoT Cloud for beginners
Faire: Lisbon
Maker: Arduino
Home: Torino, Itália
In this workshop, we will go through the steps needed to connect the Nano RP2040 Connect to the Arduino IoT Cloud.
We will test the connection out, by viewing real time data of the IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), and remotely controlling the RGB on the board.
The goals of this project are:
-Set up the Arduino IoT Cloud.
-Read IMU sensor data.
-Control the built-in RGB.
Revo5 modular cnc
Faire: Rome
Maker: Revolve srls
Here is the translation: The CNC Pantograph Revo5 represents technological innovation at its best. Designed to work with precision and reliability on very hard materials in 2D and 3D, it is the ideal choice for any productive activity. Easy to use and highly functional, Revo5 offers high-level performance in terms of speed, power and precision without burdening the company budget. Its structure has been engineered to minimize the transmission of vibrations and to have a very high mechanical and torsional resistance. Modularity is the main feature of REVO5, a unique machine of its kind.
H10 – Extreme low power SOM for energy harvesting ISM radio sensor applications
Faire: Rome
Maker: Acme Systems srl
H10 is a SOM module based on the Microchip SAM R35 microprocessor (Cortex M0 Class) equipped with LoRa Radio and a power management circuitry so optimized as to obtain practically unique low-absorption performances. The energy storage technology is based on a hybrid supercap technology and the use of very high performance solar panels that allow the creation of sensors capable of operating in environments that are not too bright or illuminated for short periods.
Embeetle Integrated development environment for Microcontroller
Faire: Rome
Maker: Embeetle BV
Embeetle IDE is designed and developed based on first-hand knowledge of Embedded programming. Embeetle IDE decreases mental overload and reduces overall operational costs. The Embeetle team created a professional MCU IDE that is easy and intuitive for both inexperienced and seasoned developers. A new user typically only needs 10 minutes to get started with a new project and light up an LED with Embeetle IDE. Embeetle boosts productivity for the users and increases market value for MCU vendors. With the collaboration of MCU vendors & manufacturers, we build a healthy ecosystem for the IoT industry.
A Talk on Stark Drones: Changing the Way the World Communicates
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Andrew Kamal
Home: Michigan, United States
Stark Drones is an emerging startup with an intellectually diverse team of talent aiming to tackle some of the world's toughest problems. One of those problems involves the sustainability and environmental friendliness of cubesat and satellite deployment. Andrew believes modern day Aerostats and giant balloons can be the future of sustainable, cost-effective, low earth orbit deployments. Stark Drones is becoming a minor player in the Internet Balloon space and working on really disrupting the industry.
The Traveling Spectacular
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: The Traveling Spectacular
Home: Washington, United States
The Traveling Spectacular is a world class vaudeville show featuring magic, comedy, circus feats, and aerial stunts on a hand crafted mobile pop out stage.
Sistema per l’Identificazione Massiva e a Bordo Automezzo di Sacchi per la Raccolta dei Rifiuti
Faire: Rome
Maker: Università degli Studi del Sannio - Benevento
Smart waste management aims at developing novel ways to optimize waste life-cycle. This objective can be achieved by combining new regulations with the availability of enabling technologies. TARIP is a novel model for tax calculation proposed by Italian government. Differently from the current method (TARI), it separates the amounts due in two different contributions: i) a fixed one, for the services offered by the waste company (i.e. waste collection), and ii) a variable one based on the real amount of taxpayer’s unsorted waste. The second part requires the adoption of a system to automate the computation of waste volume generated by each building.
At Maker Faire, we aim at presenting a tracking system able to massively track waste sacks produced by citizens and collected by trucks to calculate in a more precise way the variable amounts due. It is an integrated hardware-software and edge-to-cloud system, developed by the Engineering Department of UniSannio in cooperation with the Agenzia Servizi Igiene Ambientale SpA (ASIA) di Benevento whose edge component is located on truck board and composed of a microcomputer, an RFID reader, and related antennas. The system can perform massive reading of RFID transponders tied to rubbish sacks when they are collected by the waste company operators. Thanks to the adoption of UHF RFID technologies supported by (a) an accurate placement of antennas, (b) specific heuristics, (c) a software architecture strongly tied to the microcomputer hardware, and (d) transactional interactions between edge and cloud, the system is able to read, in a transparent way for the operators, massive amount of sacks IDs that an in-cloud business logic associate to tax payers for defining the variable TARIP contribution.
Bekonix: Concept to Creation with No-Code
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Bekonix, Inc.
Home: California, United States
A New Way to Make Technology: Bekonix makes it easy to create smart and connected IoT devices, accelerating your journey from concept to prototype to final product. It doesn't matter if you're a hobbyist, an entrepreneur, an experienced engineer, or all of the above – Our no-code, drag-and-drop platform will help you achieve your product goals faster than ever by breaking down the traditional technical barriers and democratizing who gets to participate in the product-making world. Join us to learn more and be part of an exclusive unveiling of our new Bekonix Connect controller.
Chewing: sei come mangi
Faire: Rome
Maker: Alessia Riente
Chewing is a process of vital importance for our well-being and to ensure proper digestion of food. In addition to its primary function of breaking down food into smaller pieces, chewing plays a crucial role in promoting optimal assimilation of nutrients and promoting the overall health of our digestive system. From the beginning of the digestive process, chewing plays a significant role in preparing food for the subsequent action of digestive enzymes present in the gastrointestinal tract. By properly chewing food, we break it down into smaller particles, allowing digestive enzymes to act more efficiently on them. Furthermore, chewing favors the interaction of food with saliva, which contains enzymes capable of starting the decomposition of carbohydrates. This process facilitates the digestion and absorption of nutrients as they pass through the digestive system.
Slow and thorough chewing allows our brain to receive satiety signals in a timely manner, thus reducing the risk of overeating. This is particularly important for those who wish to manage their body weight or adopt healthier eating habits.
Several factors can influence the functionality of chewing. For example, some conditions such as temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD) or dental malocclusions can impair the ability to chew properly. Additionally, habits such as smoking can have a negative impact on oral health and masticatory function.
In the scientific literature, several techniques have been described that use electromyography (EMG) technology to analyze mastication. However, these techniques are mainly aimed at detecting the presence of the masticatory act or at classifying foods based on the electrical signals generated during chewing. To date, there is no electromyographic device that is able to provide a complete assessment of an individual's chewing performance, in order to define a personalized chewing profile that allows the user to become aware of their chewing habits and, possibly, make of the changes.
In this context, "Chewing" is presented, an innovative device that represents a solution for evaluating chewing style in a non-invasive way. Chewing analyzes chewing considering different aspects of the process, such as the time dedicated to chewing, the number of chews performed, the energy used, the time of a chewing cycle and the pace of work. Thanks to this detailed analysis, it is possible to evaluate the chewing process itself, taking various aspects into consideration, and to define chewing profiles.
Raspberry Pi
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Raspberry Pi
Home: Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Makers will be able to get hands-on with Raspberry Pi Ltd's newest computer, Raspberry Pi 5. Talk to the Raspberry Pi team and perhaps grab a little piece of Raspberry Pi swag.
World skate at Maker Faire 2023
Faire: Rome
Maker: LDB consulting di Livio di Bartolomeo
World Skate is the global governing organization for roller sports. Always very close to innovation, world skate continuously renews the areas of interest of the sports it governs. Innovation does not only concern the already vast world of wheels but also that of multimedia competition products (esports) in which world skate is among the proudest supporters. Along with this, however, world skate promotes a combination of real sports and digital sports which is always present at its events. Both the strictly digital and traditional parts will be present at the Maker faire venue. National and international athletes will in fact perform on the Half pipe which makes up the proposal together with 8 other stands.
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.
MyEasyCarbon: the future of sustainable agriculture
Faire: Rome
Maker: MYEASYFARM
MyEasyCarbon is the first Label Bas Carbone certified tool capable of assessing the sustainability of agricultural businesses by calculating the balance between emissions and carbon storage in the soil. The advantage of using MyEasyCarbon lies on its interoperability, its ease of use and speed of analysis. The combined use of MyEasyFarm and MyEasyCarbon allows for the integration of data from agricultural machinery into the carbon calculation, making the final calculation more realistic and transparent, and providing more reliable data regarding Scope 3 emissions in the agri-food supply chain.
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).
Algeri-bike
Faire: Rome
Maker: IIS Algeri Marino
Battery status monitoring of an electric bike made with Arduino 33 loT via smatphone.
La Giorgi Evaluation Board
Faire: Rome
Maker: IIS Giorgi-Woolf Roma
The work was born with the idea of designing and creating a multidisciplinary electronic teaching board, usable by the students of the institute for the verification of applications of the main devices, circuits and systems used in the technical disciplines. The project envisaged all the development phases of a commercial circuit, from the conception of the electrical diagram with the definition of the electronic circuitry and the choice of components up to the assembly and testing. The system is completely reconfigurable via software and provides for interfacing with various sensors and actuators to allow customization, various configurable conditioning channels, a microcontroller with Wi-Fi and BT connectivity, a power circuit, a display and buttons for interaction with the user and for the occasion is configured to respond to the need to improve safety in all those spaces where potentially toxic concentrations of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide can accumulate. "The Giorgi Salvavita", in the event of exceeding predefined thresholds, notifies the proposed center. Furthermore, the measured parameters are of fundamental importance for the analysis of environmental quality.
Immersive Cube Experience
Faire: Rome
Maker: EY
The "Immersive Cube" is a three-dimensional environment that offers an immersive experience by projecting content, images and videos onto all the inner surfaces of the cube. In addition, it will be possible to further immerse oneself in virtual reality by using VR and AR headset, allowing the user to interact with objects and digital spaces.
In detail, the experience will be divided into three different use cases:
- TEA Research lab, which will allow the user to learn about genome editing projects for stronger, climate-resilient plants
- Malteria Brewery Virtual Tour, where the user will be able to explore the secrets of the malt house, interact with themed objects and discover the traceability function of the beer in bottle
- Sensorial Tour; here, users will be able to test themselves, trying to associate the right type of oil with the aroma perceived inside the Cube.
What the three experiences have in common is a new way of conveying information and learning notions that are often complex (such as neuroscience or genome editing) or difficult to physically reach (such as visiting a malt house). This allows the public to learn more about the products they are going to buy, and be more aware of new scientific discoveries useful in underlining concepts such as made in Italy, food sovereignty and sustainability.
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.
