Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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ArcheoSystem: un drone per l’archeologia indoor

Faire: Rome

Maker: Sapienza Università di Roma

Home: Italy

4AI – L’innovazione democratica

Faire: Rome

Maker: Sapienza Università di Roma

Home: Italy

USC Viterbi AI Community Project

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: USC Viterbi AI Community Project

Home: California, United States

Explore the future of artificial intelligence (AI) with USC Viterbi engineering students! Dive into exciting hands-on activities showcasing the wonders of AI.

Kind Humanoid, Inc.

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Christoph Kohstall

Home: California, United States

Christoph has single handedly built the first intelligent humanoid that reaches human level motion performance and leverages foundation models for reasoning. His background is experimental quantum physics at Stanford and he dove into AI at Google Brain Robotics. Kind Humanoid is now building a humanoid at a BOM of $10k and developing a skill learning pipeline to reach true general task capability. This will open up applications in fully unstructured environments, ranging from assistance with care in people's homes all the way to amplifying any human endeavor in the future.

Advanced Robotic for co-working and monitoring

Faire: Rome

Maker: Centro di Ricerca "E. Piaggio" -- Università di Pisa

Home: Italy

#virgil

Faire: Rome

Maker: Territori svelati

Home: Italy

Project Presentation: #Virgil Introduction #Virgil is a revolutionary digital storyteller that transforms the tourist and cultural experience through high-quality 3D digital historical characters and artificial intelligence-based interaction. 3D Digital Historical Characters - "Exceptional Quality": We create high-quality 3D digital historical characters, offering an immersive and realistic visual experience. - "Historical Accuracy": Each character is modeled with attention to historical details, ensuring an authentic and e

Early Detection of Sea Coastal Water Contaminants

Faire: Rome

Maker: Università degli Studi del Sannio - Benevento

Home: Italy

We show an application on WASDI platform for a user-friendly interface for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing water quality data. In particular, our idea is to show a system for near real-time detection of water contaminants through monitoring specific parameters and using satellite data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. The proposed solution will empower stakeholders to make informed decisions about water management. The final objective is the creation of an “alert service”.

R.O.B.

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: OrbitusRobotics

Home: California, United States

ROB is the first droid with all Mac hardware. Using only Apple sdk's and api's I am able to create magic between components. Thanks to the new networking.framework, I am able to auto connect with bonjour services between my droid, the controllers, and even other bots. I wanted to make the simplest and most affordable Droid, I wanted to bring all of our imaginations to life and I wanted to push the boundaries of technology just a bit further and beyond reach. ROB is a Droid with toddler level neural network intelligence. His chat server was built with a python CakeChat neural emotion engine which gives him lots of interesting things to say! R.O.B. runs on OSX and has LiFePO4 80 Ah batteries for hours mobility with the finest BLDC motors that Shenzhen, China has to offer.

AI Music and Flat Panel Speakers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Allen Ajello

Home: California, United States

Visitors will be able to make their own songs by working with AI song creation tools like Suno and Udio. They can then listen to them on Flat Panel Speakers (Distributed Mode Loudspeakers) as we exhibited at Maker Faire 2019 and won 2 Editor's Choice awards for.

Spacebar Arcade

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: The Yarn Corporation

Home: California, United States

Spacebar Arcade is a Virtual Reality saloon arcade set in the wild west of cyberspace. You enter this virtual world by way of a real-world 16-foot-tall arcade cabinet. Play on the "outside" using game pads and the giant screen, or don a VR headset to go inside the Spacebar with your friends and family. Inside, one can find a variety of low-gravity games and digital refreshments to enjoy with the other patrons. You might find our ornery A.I. barkeep, Cyberspace Sam. The physical cabinet and the virtual game were both designed and built by creative technologist (and lifelong maker), Sam Mateosian, in his San Carlos garage studio with the assistance of his two daughters, various friends, and helpful neighbors. It was first exhibited at the Augmented World Expo Playground in June 2024.

Robotic Dog Race I-RIM Challenge

Faire: Rome

Maker: Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Home: Italy

Quadruped locomotion presents several technical and scientific challenges, particularly when navigating unstructured terrain. These challenges span areas such as planning, control, and perception. The Robotic Dog Race Challenge, sponsored by EagleProjects, is a competition designed to allow participating teams to test their cutting-edge algorithms in a realistic rescue scenario. The course includes a variety of obstacles, each designed to assess a specific robotic skill or capability.

DigiSPOT Rescue System

Faire: Rome

Maker: I.I.S. Alessandro Volta

Home: Italy

Machine-Learning (ML) Detection of Cancerous Cells

Faire: Rome

Maker: Sapienza Università di Roma

Home: Italy

Physical AI Avatars

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Aditu Technologies

Home: Lagos, Nigeria

Aditu is exploring physical installations of AI-powered conversational avatars. Given the recent explosion in popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, it is known for a fact that AI is poised to transform our day-to-day lives in a myriad of ways. Aditu is exploring how LLMs embodied in physical installations and represented by animated 3D characters responding in real-time, could infuse the wonder of AI and LLMs into physical interactions. A software demo of this technology is accessible online. It is an AI Curator which guides website visitors through Open Access artworks at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It leverages AI and LLMs as a medium for fostering public engagement with art. Visit it here: https://aditu.tech/digitalculturepromotion/met-avatar

AI Color Chocolate Sorting Machine

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Riciery Santos

Home: California, United States

This project is an automated machine for sorting M&Ms by color, utilizing computer vision technology and automation. The key component is the Husky Lens, an artificial intelligence camera from DF Robot, responsible for identifying the color of each M&M. Once the color is detected, a servo motor is activated, directing the chocolates to the respective boxes based on color. The control core of the machine is the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board, which manages the interface between the Husky Lens and the servo motor. This system demonstrates the practical application of computer vision and automation in specific tasks, offering an efficient and precise method for sorting M&Ms by color.

La moda senza matita: formazione 4.0

Faire: Rome

Maker: Fondazione ITS ACADEMY SISTEMA MODA

Home: Italy

Team ISAAC @ PoliTo

Faire: Rome

Maker: Team ISAAC

Home: Italy

Autonomous Rovers for Exploration

Faire: Rome

Maker: Spark S.r.l

Home: Italy

The project is an autonomous rover that enables the exploration and mapping of inaccessible environments for humans. The rover has been designed to address a specific issue in archaeology, which is the inability to access underground areas due to high risk or narrow spaces. Thanks to its compact design, our rover can explore the environment and create an accurate 3D map of the environment using artificial intelligence algorithms to provide autonomous functionalities. The map will then be analyzed by researchers to obtain valuable information about the historical context.

Bootcamp reel – HackAReel

Faire: Rome

Maker: Learning Science Institute

Home: Italy

The project consists of an event in which participants will attend speeches to learn how to make the best use of ICTs to create reels that can showcase and enhance the surrounding area

Armonia equestre – RACE

Faire: Rome

Maker: Università degli Studi di Roma Foro Italico

Home: Italy

The RACE system employs wearable devices like load cells and inertial sensors to monitor horse and rider motor and physiological parameters in real time, allowing performance characterization and remote monitoring. It integrates AI for data analysis, enabling personalized indications and early detection of horse health issues. RACE's user-friendly approach makes horse management more accessible and effective while optimizing performance and health monitoring.

Drop of a Hat Zone

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: James Steinberg

Home: New York, United States

I am using AI to automatically drop hats onto your head. At a moment's notice. At the drop of a hat.

Robotics in Agriculture I-RIM Challenge

Faire: Rome

Maker: Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Home: Italy

The Tomato Harvesting Challenge (THC) is a competition supported by Pal Robotics SL, which will provide the Tiago robot equipped with a 7-DoF robotic arm and parallel gripper. The competition has the ambition to advance the field of agricultural robotics by encouraging the development of innovative solutions for fruit harvesting. Achieving accurate selective harvesting requires overcoming many challenges including the ability to i) detect fruits to be harvested ii) assess their ripeness stage, and iii) plan the robot motion while managing the variability of the agricultural environment.

Co-create Solution for Hazard Response

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Seeed Studio

Home: Texas, United States

The Hazard Response Mission Pack is an on-going open-source AIoT solution designed to efficiently manage and mitigate different hazard scenarios. This compact system combines a range of technologies, including sensor networks and edge computing, to enable effective remote sensing, data transmission, processing, inference, and analysis. In this workshop, participants are invited to collaboratively create innovative, sustainable solutions for hazard response. They will explored various hazard scenarios and identified gaps in current security systems, learn to used AIoT hardware and Node-RED to develop and implement reproducible hazard response solutions. They will also engage in hands-on projects, such as building resilient local warning systems and deploying advanced hazard sensors.

#Robo-Papier-Mâché – Traditional Art and New Tech.

Faire: Rome

Maker: Carlo Ottaviani

Home: Italy

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