Maker Faire Yearbook 2023
Projects
Found 21 Results
Cultivate in space!
Faire: Rome
Maker: Università degli Studi di Genova
Space V is a spin-off of the University of Genoa; it owns the international patents of the “Adaptive Vertical Farm” architecture, which holds the promise of greatest efficiency in producing fresh vegetable food in space settlements. The distinctive feature of the adaptive greenhouse is its capability of progressively moving the distance between the cultivation shelves of the vertical farm according to the level of plants growth, maintaining distinct microclimates for each shelf, thus maximizing the production yield per unit volume and unit time, reducing the overall energy usage.
ARES
Faire: Rome
Maker: ITIS GALILEO GALILEI DI ROMA
ARES project was born 4 years ago from the idea of 4 students passionate about the aerospace world and dreamers of a human landing on Mars. They asked themselves a question: how will the resources necessary to survive on a desert planet be found? They developed a project to verify the feasibility of a plantation on the red planet, faithfully recreating the Martian biosphere. An electronic brain will manage the sensors and irrigation of each dome. Finally, all the data will be managed within a portal, implementing a procedure in relation to the IoT.
TERRAVIONICS
Faire: Rome
Maker: TERRAVIONICS srl
Data-driven integration of satellite data, sensors and drones with A.I. and digital modeling, designed to manage criticalities. Targeting climate change challenges: productivity, profitability, complexity. The current focus is on Agritech (viticulture), but scalable.
Our mission is to take care of the analytics process. So that farmers can focus on creating their “unique” product, but at their best. By making proactive and better decisions.
Alongside this process users are also supported in minimizing the environmental footprint by reducing the use of chemicals and resource optimization.
MaCh3D Material Testing (r)Evolution
Faire: Rome
Maker: MaCh3D
For those transforming raw materials into final products and for materials developers, MaCh3D is a Smart Material Testing platform made of an innovative hardware allowing an easier, safer and faster testing procedure, and a cloud platform for material intelligence, enhanced by AI for processes control and materials and processes optimization.
Smart Material Testing directly at manufacturing floor will accelerate materials innovation and grow trust in new materials and applications.
MaCh3D, (r)Evolution in Material Testing!
ESA EO TOUCH TABLE and EOP
Faire: Rome
Maker: European Space Agency-ESRIN
Discovering the latest and most significant images of our planet, obtained thanks to ESA's Earth Observation satellites
Old game New game
Faire: Rome
Maker: Liceo Scientifico Alessandro Volta di Foggia
Why throw away old toys such as radio-controlled cars, animated puppets, globes, electronic games, etc. when can you indulge yourself in transforming them into fun and creative robotic toys? This provides for the "Old game New game" project. Visitors can either play with the toys made by the students of the Volta high school in Foggia, or try their hand directly at building them, through laboratory activities organized by the high school students themselves.
SE L’ACQUA C’È NOI LA TROVIAMO – IF THERE IS WATER WE WILL FIND IT
Faire: Rome
Maker: hydrohunter di Tamburrino Daniela
Hydrohunter's future plan is to be able to solve the drought problem. Also help the small farmer who does not have a large amount of money to invest in a water research project. Report whether there is an aquifer on your land, whether this water resource is convenient or not. That is, the risk-benefit ratio is valid for designing an artesian well.
Embodied AI Agent with a real robotic platform
Faire: Rome
Maker: Machine Learning Reply
The talk will focus on a real implementation of Embodied AI agent. We will start with an overview of the Machine Learning models covered within Reply R&D, therefore DinoV2 for Object Detection (https://dinov2.metademolab.com/), PALM (https://palm-e.github.io/ ) as a starting point for VLMs (Visual Language Models) and be able to generalize a large number of tasks that require multimodal input (both with images and text). We will then move on to a focus on a robotic agent such as SPOT by Boston Dynamics, therefore its architecture, the potential of this agent and the sensors present in stock. From here we will have the basis to move on to an implementation of Embodied AI Agents controlled completely with voice in natural language. We will show an orchestrator who, by receiving voice commands in natural language as input, will be able to control a robotic agent such as SPOT by Boston Dynamics and use the Machine Learning models necessary to complete the individual tasks within the episode initiated by the user. We will then show current developments in the way related to the use of Visual Language Models, such as RT-2(https://robotics-transformer2.github.io/) for robotic agents and LINGO-1(https://wayve.ai/ ) for autonomous driving.
Water Sampling Drone, campionamento delle acque.
Faire: Rome
Maker: IIS Marconi Galletti Einaudi Domodossola
Water Sampling Drone is an automatic surface water sampling system based on the STM32 microcontroller. The improved collection system allows you to manage multiple samplings during a single mission and thanks to a multi-parameter platform (pH, Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, Conductivity, solid state detector for muon measurement) data on the quality of the water for each withdrawal point. The collected water is then stored in special test tubes and can be used for subsequent chemical-biological analyzes in the laboratory. The system is equipped with a GPS independent from the drone control one to allow the replicability of the sampling and the georeferencing of the data: the coordinates and the acquired data are memorized on a micro-SD and simultaneously sent via radio to a computer on the ground.
The sustainability through the student Teams of the Politecnico of Turin
Faire: Rome
Maker: Politecnico di Torino
The Politecnico di Torino presents the most important students Teams involved in sustainability, ecological aspect, low consumption, mobility, recycle, reducing environmental impact and promoting circular economy.
The Politecnico of Torino involves the students in Teams with a mission: “learning by doing” with the goal to grow up a new generation of engineers able to accept challenges and solve problems.
The main goal of the teams is a practical training of the future engineer: to design means to compromise between an idea and what is actually buildable.
The Politecnico would like to present 10 teams that from 15 years make innovation participating to international competitions and events.
The Politecnico would like to have a big space to expose theire prototype; cars, bicycle, motorcycle, boats, mobile robot, scaled airplane, recycling computer and more other.
SPOCH – Smart Protection of Cultural Heritage
Faire: Rome
Maker: Fondazione ITS BACT
Human – Machine Collaboration - Industry 5.0, Hi-Tech modular system composed of glove, drone, microscope and APP enhanced with IoT devices and ML Artificial Intelligence to identify the type of degradation and material in the Restoration of Cultural Heritage. Smart Hand (Glove) with carbon frame, digital/electronic camera and microscope, air quality sensor, laser scanner to safely enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the data collection process in the non-invasive preliminary and diagnostic investigation of Architectural Restoration; through Cloud APPs and ML Machine Learning models.
SMART MAINTENANCE AT HIGH ALTITUDE
Faire: Rome
Maker: I.T.T. A. PACINOTTI
Our project main goal is to maintain in a great state the wind turbine’s blades
The project is divided in four separate part:
1. verify the integrity of the external structure using a drone with a 3D scanner
2. Verify the integrity of the internal structure using a rail robot with a scanner
3. Internal cleaning of the structure is divided in two sections: for the tower a robot with magnetic tracks is used, for the blades a system with rotating brushes is used.
4. Maintenance of the surfaces with a system of smoothing and painting
Apache, il Drone FPV Cinematico
Faire: Rome
Maker: Dynamic Shot SRL
The Apache is an FPV Drone designed and manufactured entirely in Italy. It was born for use in the world of cinema, allowing the creation of unique dynamic videos with the quality of today's films and TV series. Thanks to its 8 motors and a specially designed chassis, it can lift film cameras and remotely controlled heads.
Pollen Sprayer
Faire: Rome
Maker: IISS “Ven. Ignazio Capizzi” - Bronte ( CT)
The Pollen Sprayer is a particular electronic tank, equipped with nebulizers, which allows you to carry out the artificial pollination of plants with the aid of a drone. Designed for the pistachio plant, it can be used for any fruit tree in order to improve fruit setting and increase production. What makes the Pollen Sprayer unique is the fact that it can be adapted to any drone. In fact, given the high cost, the purchase of specific agricultural drones is not accessible to everyone.
THE FOOD OF THE FUTURE, THE FUTURE OF FOOD
Faire: Rome
Maker: EltHub srl
How can food be produced in the future? How can food be produced in extreme environments? What does it have in common with future space food? These are some of the topics we want to "tell" at maker faire. Futuristic hydroponic crops within everyone's reach:
- ROBOTFARM a hydroponic greenhouse the size of a washing machine
- HYDROWALL a vertical farm the size of a planter
- SOLE a future greenhouse ground demonstrator rack cabinet on the International Space Station
- ROBOTLAMP new generation LED lamps for growing anywhere in the world and in space
- MIG the vertical container farm to cultivate automatically even in the most extreme environments
- NUTRI3D a 3D food printer to obtain nutraceuticals, vitamins and sources of antioxidants, starting from fresh raw materials or agri-food processing waste for the formulation of new generation food "inks", personalized foods, snacks-on-the-go , sports food, military, astronauts etc...
Dalla ricerca all’impresa: Flying Demon e radioattività
Faire: Rome
Maker: Flying Demon s.r.l.
Flying Demon s.r.l. was founded by young researchers in physics as a university spinoff after winning the #ETEC-Second edition contest, proposed by ENAC to fund innovative startups. The company's core business is radiometric safety, which is ensured through rapid, non-invasive drone surveys of large areas, including hard-to-reach zones. To achieve this goal, the company is developing technologically advanced, compact, and portable detectors for in-situ and real-time measurements.
SASA – Sapienza Technology Team
Faire: Rome
Maker: Sasa-sapienza aerospace student association
ERA is a planetary rover that participated in the European Rover Challenge, which simulates a Martian mission. Thanks to its robotic arm, it is capable of manipulating panels and collecting soil samples, while AI algorithms allow for autonomous execution of each operation. Additionally, the rover that will participate in the 2023 edition of the competition is presented, which in addition requires drilling and the use of a drone. Various prototypes developed internally by the team are also presented, including a group of sumobots: small rovers that compete to push others out of the ring.
RoboButts by Project40
Faire: Rome
Maker: Denis Oliviero
RoboButts is a robot equipped with a robotic arm whose purpose is to collect butts. What we are presenting is the first working prototype of a project whose purpose is to be implanted in urban cleaning systems. Normally it takes about 30 years to dispel a stub but with our project we want to intervene immediately on this phenomenon. The robot is now controlled with the PC's keyboard but we are working on an AI to detect the cigarette butts and to make the robot completely autonomous
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.
SASA – Sapienza Rocket Team
Faire: Rome
Maker: Sapienza Rocket Team
Minerva is the flagship project of Sapienza Rocket Team, a sounding rocket whose expected altitude touches 3000 m. It will be the result of the knowledge and skills acquired over the years by the Team members. Starting from the optimization of the external aerodynamics using specific algorithms, moving on to implementing an airbrake system designed to guarantee maximum precision in reaching the mission altitude, it will be made almost entirely of composite materials to ensure the best structural performance.
ABACHOS – AUTOMATIC BACK HOME SYSTEM – ALIANTE IN GRADO DI RIENTRARE AUTONOMAMENTE DALLA STRATOSFERA
Faire: Rome
Maker: IIS Palmieri-Rampone-Polo
Il programma ABACHOS (Automatic Back Home System) î un innovativo programma didattico che comprende un insieme di attività progettuali finalizzate allâinvio di palloni sonda e relativi payload nella Stratosfera.
I primi esperimenti sono stati svolti nel 2014, da allora numerosi sono stati i lanci, molte le lezioni e le attività . Nel 2022, abbiamo vinto una competizione dell'ESA (Agenzia Spaziale Europea),. Questa vittoria ci ha finanziato un lancio dallo Swedish Space Center (SSC) di Kiruna, in collaborazione con ASI e INGV. Questo progetto ha catturato un video a 360° della Terra dalla stratosfera (si veda https://youtu.be/a5JD3fjg3Zw)
