Maker Faire Yearbook 2023
Projects
Found 116 Results
Rcoffee
Faire: Rome
Maker: Rcoffee S.r.l.
Rcoffee S.r.l is an innovative start-up company and the object of the activity is the transformation of used coffee grounds into pellets, we will also be able to recycle coffee grounds from plastic and aluminium capsules, thus also allowing the proper recycling of these materials. We have already realised the product and provided samples to our consumers. The team consists of three university students: Arash Moazenchi (CEO) student of
Economics student; Matteo Villani (CFO) Law student; Marco Oliva (COO)Economics student.
SPARC- Sistema di Potenziamento di autonomia con ricarica continua per smartphone
Faire: Rome
Maker: ITT Bassano Romano
The SPARC project focusses on the design and implementation of a standalone charging system for smartphones. The central idea is to harness the kinetic energy generated by the touch of fingers on the screen, solar energy through a photovoltaic diaper and kinetic energy from an oscillating mass to autonomously recharge smartphone batteries, significantly extending battery life and reducing the need for frequent recharges.
-Energy charging through the touch of the screen
-Integrated solar panel
-Swingling mass
-Energy charging with body heat
-Double rotating battery
Conclusions.
The SPARC project promises to revolutionise the smartphone industry, making devices more self-sufficient and sustainable.
This technology could be a significant step forward for a more sustainable and technologically advanced future.
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.
PowerMeter
Faire: Rome
Maker: Powermeter Srls
Powermeter has developed smart meter devices for monitoring electricity production and consumption in real time
The presentation project of the PowerMeter device for energy communities is ambitious and aims to offer an effective solution for monitoring and managing energy within these ever-growing communities.
The PowerMeter device, already appreciated by individual users for monitoring electricity consumption, is now proposed as a valuable resource for energy communities. These communities, often characterized by decentralized production of energy from renewable sources such as solar or wind farms, require an efficient monitoring system to maximize self-consumption and sharing of the energy produced.
The presentation of the PowerMeter device for energy communities focuses on three key points. Firstly, real-time monitoring of energy production and consumption by each member of the community. Thanks to PowerMeter, each user will have immediate and detailed access to information on their own energy production and consumption, allowing for more informed and efficient management.
Secondly, the PowerMeter device offers the possibility to monitor the energy bought and sold within the community. This makes it possible to establish a precise energy balance, facilitating the fair and transparent sharing of the energy produced among the members of the community.
Finally, the presentation project underlines the importance of intuitive visualization of energy data through the dedicated app. PowerMeter provides a comprehensive and understandable overview of energy flows, with clear graphs and statistics that allow for easy interpretation and optimal energy management.
Through this presentation, PowerMeter aims to become the ideal partner for energy communities, providing an advanced, easy-to-use monitoring solution capable of supporting intelligent and sustainable management of shared energy.
One Health Lab
Faire: Rome
Maker: Università di Siena
The bioeconomy is not only the set of activities of food, bio-energy, and bio-materials production, but
includes all activities that transform biological resources into other products. In many cases, as in the
forestry sector and in many areas of biomaterial production activities, no processes are involved
biotechnological but biophysical or biochemical, which makes the technical and scientific skills of the Laboratory
absolutely suited to this time of crucial transition, accepting the challenge of integrating the
bioeconomy and the circular economy into a new concept known as the circular bioeconomy. The Demonstrator
to be implemented by the Macronode@UNISI ensures the marriage of innovation (generation of know-
how), quality and sustainability in a multidisciplinary and multiproduct vision (use of know-how)
proposing and using green and bio-based solutions: a model that aims at real circularity, a unicum
in the eco-sustainable life sciences sector nationally and internationally. The experimental laboratory
will be organized as a Bioeconomy Innovation Lab with the aim of creating a platform for the
development of products derived from a waste, capable of making the process of formulating a new
product and put it on the market, connecting the raw material and subcontractor industries, as well as offering the
ability to carry out quality control testing, stability, material studies and realization of product
prototypes.
E-Chopper
Faire: Rome
Maker: IIS G. Vallauri - Fossano
E-chopper is an electric vehicle retrofit created by a group of students from the IIS G. Vallauri institute in Fossano (CN). They refurbished an old chopper, integrated it with a position monitoring system, and provided a comprehensive overview of the vehicle's electric efficiency during the journey. The project aims to address the inherent safety issues of traditional electric scooters by offering a similarly compact vehicle that closely resembles the characteristics of a bicycle.
+Re Water
Faire: Rome
Maker: Innovazione e tecnologia a supporto di uno stile di vita migliore e dignitoso per tutti
L'idea si basa sui punti 6 e 7 dellâagenda 2030, ossia Garantire a tutti la disponibilità e la gestione sostenibile dellâacqua e delle strutture igienico-sanitarie e assicurare a tutti lâaccesso a sistemi di energia economici, affidabili, sostenibili e moderni. +Re Water suddivide il suo funzionamento tra le due fasi principali della giornata, durante la notte recupera acqua, deumidificando lâaria circostante; durante il dì produce energia elettrica e potabilizza lâacqua tramite una serie di filtri in carbonio attivo e lampade di tipo UV. Ma gli sprechi non sono ben visti da noi di +Re Water, ed î per questo che abbiamo scelto di aggiungere una cisterna di raccolta dellâacqua piovana, che verrà in seguito potabilizzata assieme allâacqua deumidificata. Perché scegliere il nostro progetto? Il nostro progetto offre soluzioni innovative, volte a diminuire i problemi di approvvigionamento idrico nel mondo usando solo energia fotovoltaica. +Re Water î basato su una visione a lungo termine e su una strategia di sviluppo continuo con lo scopo di adattarsi alle esigenze di ogni zona e aiutare più persone possibile.
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.
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.
Sedia a rotelle elettrica per tetraplegici
Faire: Rome
Maker: IIS Tito Sarrocchi
In the 2022-2023 school year, the students of class IV and V of the Electronic Robotics specialization allowed tetraplegic people, i.e., person with inability to voluntarily move the upper and lower parts of the body, to move independently and using the residual mobility of the head.
An Arduino NANO 33 BLE and an inertial sensor present on board allow to intercept the movements of the head and, through the Bluetooth module, the information of the head movements is delivered to a self-built Master board and subsequently, through the DAC, the voltages are created to run the engines. Moreover, a set of sensors on the perimeter of the wheelchair avoids obstacles and a LIDAR sensor helps reconstruct the surrounding environment.
Circle Fermenter – Feeding communities
Faire: Rome
Maker: Matteo Cappellari
Circle fits into the free and self-powered cycle of the fermentation community with the desire not only to delight its palate, but to increase its exchanges and visions.
This sanctions a true symbiosis: the community needs Circle for its preparations, Circle needs the community to develop and expand its horizons.
A fermenter that emphasizes the feeling of sharing that food often gives. The nature of such a simple food transformation reflects the open source character of the project, which is designed for digital manufacturing.
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.
DEENTRA, evitiamo l’estinzione!
Faire: Rome
Maker: Deentra
Deentra developed an innovative business model that allows people to purchase a photovoltaic panel and install it on a company's roof, enabling anyone to produce sustainable energy regardless of where they live. Thanks to the solution companies can benefit from the energy produced at a competitive rate without any upfront investment, while the owners of the photovoltaic panels are remunerated for the energy produced. Deentra's goal is to contribute to the decarbonization of 2000+ companies by 2030.
@MappaX
Faire: Rome
Maker: @MAPPAX ASSOCIAZIONE GIOVANILE
MappaX is a project created for the development and improvement of your neighbourhood, through a platform that connects citizens and administration.
Trough MappaX you can:
- report problems and inconveniences
(e.g. the degradation of a park, or the disrepair of a street)
- propose projects and events
(e.g. organise a day for cleaning a public park, or an exhibition)
- participate in the co-design of placemaking and tactical urbanism interventions
(e.g. the redevelopment of a square or an outdoor gym in a park)
Limitless Device
Faire: Rome
Maker: Limitless Device
The Limitless Device idea coming from a personal need, that of one of the two founders who, as a disabled person in a wheelchair, physiotherapist and researcher, looked for a different mobility device.
Sooner or later all of us will need some medical devices and our vision is to be able and ready to offer functionally useful devices, sustainable, technologically innovative and with an attractive design oriented to the expectations and needs of our customers.
Indeed, our vision is to get data coming from our clients, analyse them through artificial intelligence and offer products "customer based" in a e-commerce marketplace dedicated.
Girasole: Sensing in Farming
Faire: Rome
Maker: GIRASOLE SRL
The system consists of a network of wireless IoT sensors in the shape of a sunflower equipped with a photovoltaic panel and internal battery. These devices are configured to monitor specific applications, and the collected data is transmitted to our completely Italian cloud system, where it is processed by artificial intelligence algorithms to make visible predictions on the Sunflower App. For example, the application supports farmers in reducing water waste for irrigation, reducing fertilizers and treatments, and improving productivity.
#HarvestingMakerino
Faire: Rome
Maker: Bruno Luziatelli
With Makerino it is possible to quickly create IoT electronic projects and those connected to the network in general, such as:
-Smart agriculture systems
-Meteorological Stations
-Data acquisition and sending to the cloud
-Control of remote devices
-Low energy consumption IoT projects
ideal for:
-Students, Professors and Researchers
-Makers passionate about electronics and programming
-Schools, universities and training institutes.
The project of some makers of Officine Robotiche, in the framework of AssoInnovazione.
ElectroNature
Faire: Rome
Maker: Nyíregyházi SZC Bánki Donát Műszaki Technikum és Kollégium
We are the ElectroNature team who wants to revolutionize energy production in the world. The energy crisis is noticeable, and energy has become very expensive. In this situation, we need to provide electricity to places where it used to be very expensive. In addition to existing alternative energy sources, we would like to work on a new, less known, and underutilized solution.
Our idea is to develop a simple and low-maintenance piezoelectric energy harvesting system. Biomimicry is a development method that focuses on studying and utilizing models and processes from nature. We need to develop a simple and low-maintenance piezoelectric energy field and determine through a pilot project how economically viable it can be operated.
Audace Sailing Team, Università degli Studi di Trieste
Faire: Rome
Maker: Università degli Studi di Trieste
Audace Sailing Team is this: 50 students, 3 boats, 2 different challenges and a real big goal: to keep growing. Inspired by the highest level sports teams, we manage the entire process behind the creation of racing prototypes. From design to construction to racing, supported by logistics, marketing and image departments.
And with an added challenge: looking for sustainable solutions without sacrificing performance.
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.
Pachamama Security Beach
Faire: Rome
Maker: Pachamama Security
THE ITALIAN PORTABLE SAFE ,SAFEEST IN THE WORLD.
promises to revolutionize the travel safe market,project involving a team of Italian companies specialized in innovation.
From recycled Nylon Polyamide also with the use of exhausted fishing nets.
We are very attentive to the circular economy and respect for the environment.
But how does the Pachamama safe work?
It is a classic shell system, with a closure activated by recognition of the owner's Smartphone, RFID technology, or by means of an encrypted code. Recharged by a Wireless Charger system and assisted by a solar cell installed in the upper shell. Unlike other models, however, the Pachamama portable safe is the first in the world to be equipped with a 110 decibel sound alarm system triggered by motion sensors 3D in case of displacement or forced disconnection of the steel cable.
In practice, as soon as an unrecognized individual tries to move or open the safe, the device will trigger the alarm, forcing the criminals to give up the theft.
Italian design
Life MUssel Sustainable production (re)cyCLES – Life MUSCLES
Faire: Rome
Maker: Università di Siena
The LIFE MUSCLES project aims at reducing the impact linked to the use of Polypropylene (PP) socks for mussel farming, promoting and creating an more sustainable mussel production value chain that minimise the dispersion of PP socks in the marine environment, through:
• the transition to a circular economic model within the mussel production sector in the targeted areas through the recovery and recycling of polypropylene (PP) socks used for mussels farming by providing the italian mussel farmers with a mobile Recycling Plant (300 kg/day) able to operate directly at mussel farms facilities;
• the increase in sustainability of the mussel farming sector in the targeted areas by promoting both the replacement of PP socks with ones made of biodegradable and compostable biopolymer (BP) and validating the feasibility of mechanical and organic recycling of biopolymeric (BP) socks.
• the awareness raising of key different target groups and stakeholders such as farmers, distributors and consumers, on the sustainability of mussel production sector;
• Definition and transfer of good practices to reduce the dispersion/abandonment of PP socks at sea.
Givit
Faire: Rome
Maker: Università degli Studi di Trieste
Through Givit, people can rent various types of items from other users and shops, reducing the need to purchase and own objects that are only used occasionally. This helps to reduce resource waste and the environmental impact associated with production and disposal. Givit also offers the option to pick up items directly from shops, providing convenience and supporting the concept of the local economy. The platform promotes economic accessibility, as rental prices can be more affordable than purchasing. Additionally, Givit encourages resource sharing and circulation, promoting a lifestyle based on access and collaboration. With a wide variety of available items, Givit makes quality products more accessible to a larger audience. We are committed to creating a positive impact for both the environment and people, promoting a sustainable and responsible mindset through shared renting on Givit.
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.
