Maker Faire Yearbook 2023

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Infinit Sound Fx – A natural way to control sound effects.

Faire: Rome

Maker: Daniel F. Rosero

Musicians engage with their instruments through a variety of gestures. Some of these gestures serve a practical purpose, like plucking guitar strings or tapping effect pedal switches with their feet. However, others are non-utilitarian and stem from spontaneous bodily reactions to the music's interpretation—examples include jumping or expressive facial expressions. This project empowers you to leverage these instinctive, natural gestures in real-time, allowing you to use them as intuitive controls for your effects. It provides a user-friendly interface that can be tailored to suit your specific requirements.

Parko: Sustainable Smart Parking Solution

Faire: Rome

Maker: Khaled Atef Megahed

Parko is an innovative parking management solution that revolutionizes the way parking spaces are utilized. With our smart technology, we optimize parking efficiency, reduce congestion, and provide a seamless experience for drivers. Our system incorporates real-time monitoring, data analytics, and intuitive mobile applications to enable efficient parking space allocation and reservation. By maximizing parking utilization, Parko promotes sustainable urban mobility, reduces carbon emissions, and enhances the overall parking experience for both drivers and parking operators. Join us in transforming the future of parking with Parko!

Besteam, The football metaverse.

Faire: Rome

Maker: Besteam Game S.r.l.

Besteam Game s.r.l. is an innovative startup that is building a football Metaverse, based on NFT and with its own token the BTEM. The goal is to translate real football into virtual football through the blockchain system. Each user is a virtual footballer with a customizable avatar, can be part of a team and compete in the mode: Football, in which to challenge 11 other players.

glimoire – gioielli d’altri tempi

Faire: Rome

Maker: Marco Magliozzi

Glimoire® creations are born from the passion for objects from the past. The processing takes place in several stages, with the use of semi-precious metals and specific techniques of craftsmanship.

Vida Custom Designs

Faire: Miami

Maker: Drew Viaurrazaga

Home: Florida, United States

Vida Custom Designs is a small minority business founded in 2018 by Drew & Cindy Vidaurrazaga. We specialize in custom productions, using high-quality materials and expertise in CNC millwork, laser cutting/engraving, woodworking, and more!

#MakeAndoEverywhere OLAMÍ ORT

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: i.d.e.a. lab del Colegio Olamí ORT

Home: Benito Juárez, Mexico

Es un taller teórico-práctico que busca compartir la experiencia maker en esquema de aprendizaje basado en proyectos adaptado para profesores y padres en cualquier entorno educativo.

LVenture Group: investing in change

Faire: Rome

Maker: LVenture Group S.p.A.

LVenture Group is a Venture Capital company listed on the Italian Stock Exchange that invests in digital startups and accelerates their growth, generating profits from exit transactions, mainly M&A. LVenture Group is one of the most active pre-seed operators in Southern Europe thanks to its acceleration programme LUISS EnLabs, dedicated to digital startups and created in joint venture with Luiss University. LVenture Group invests in the cleantech and travel tech sectors through its vertical accelerators Zero and Argo. The company conducts Open Innovation activities with leading Italian and international industrial players including Eni, CDP Venture Capital, Leonardo, Intesa Sanpaolo and Meta. To accelerate the development of startups LVenture Group has created a 9,000-square-metre hub inside Termini Station in Rome. From 2013 to date, it has invested in more than 130 startups that have raised a total of more than 180 million euros, 25 million of which were invested directly by the company. LVenture Group has contributed to the creation of more than 1,800 high-value-added jobs.

AGRISKY Remove Carbon. Save Water.

Faire: Rome

Maker: Agrisky s.r.l.

We provide a cutting-edge B2B platform that connects environmentally impactful companies with indoor farmers. Our unique approach leverages the controlled environment and reliable data provided by indoor farms. This ensures that businesses can offset their carbon emissions and water footprint through credible and traceable projects. With Agrisky, companies can make a meaningful impact on the environment while fostering sustainable partnerships.

MENELOCK

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: JESUS MENESES

Home: mexico, Mexico

Es una alarma para motos y carros que los mantiene bloqueados hasta no ingresar una huella previamente registrada. esta funciona con un lector biométrico de huellas digitales

Robot On! presents Kung-Fu Fighting Robot SHOTWELL

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Robot On!

Home: California, United States

Team Robot On! presents Shotwell, a Kung-Fu Fighting Robot with 15 metal gear servo motors for forceful punches and lighting quick maneuvers. Shotwell entered the arena for the first time at Robogames 2023, weighing in at 1.9 kg and 14 inches tall, placing fourth in Kung-Fu and taking silver medal in weight lifting. Kung-fu involves 2 remote-controlled robots in a boxing ring throwing uppercuts, side kicks, blocks, and dodges. Shotwell utilizes a leg linkage which keeps the legs parallel to the ground, a waist rotation axis, and beefy 2000 mAh LiPo battery. Designed and built by Kris Magri, a former Make: Magazine intern, piloted by Matt Ebisu, avid robot builder and robotics grad student, and kept in motion by operations manager Patty W.

Sculpting Aquarius

Faire: Rochester

Maker: Brian Miller

Home: Pennsylvania, United States

Guests will be able to learn how to create a small stone figurine with a hands on experience, and be able to keep what you make. A chance to ask questions, pick the artist's brain and see all materials that go into creating a finished piece.

SN Dabson Art

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Staci Dabson

Home: Florida, United States

My goal is to make boring stuff look awesome. I offer original paintings along with hand-painted surfboards and skateboards. All of my boards are usable (i.e. the surfboards can be waxed and go in the water). I utilize bright colors and unique imagery to express myself and bring a little bit of awesome into my collectors lives.

Engines and mechanical creations

Faire: Syracuse

Maker: Michael (Sid) Pileski

Home: New York, United States

Steam and IC engines. Mechanical contrivances.

EPICC Hayas. Proyectos Integradores.

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: Mariana Barradas Fernández

Home: Veracruz, Mexico

Conoce y juega con los prototipos desarrollados en proyectos integradores interdisciplinarios por alumnos y docentes Makers en el Colegio Las Hayas: Ph-ChemiCode, Máquinas de Reacción en Cadena, Manufactura de Plástico Reciclado y mucho más!

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.

Rethink

Faire: Brussels

Maker: rethink

Home: Belgium

rethink accompagne les acteur•rice•s du secteur culturel dans l'émergence de nouveaux imaginaires et processus créatifs : nous les aidons à dialoguer et co-construire efficacement avec leurs publics et à expérimenter de nouvelles pratiques de design d'espace et de projet.

3D Printing In Edmonton

Faire: Calgary

Maker: John Beima

Home: Alberta, Canada

We are a full-service 3D Printer company. Offering everything from high-quality print services, custom-designed and made 3D Printers, printer service, support, and so much more. Additionally we now carry filaments made right here in Edmonton! Includ filament containing captured carbon from AB air!

PuroSole Sistemi Solari a radiazione diretta

Faire: Rome

Maker: Digitarch Farm srl

Heliostats are devices that reflect the sun's rays onto a fixed target. They use motorized reflecting surfaces that automatically follow the trajectory of the Sun. Today they are used only in large plants for the production of electricity with reflecting surfaces of hundreds of square meters and millionaire investments (such as the Archimede thermodynamic plant by Carlo Rubbia). But we think that a heliostat can also be used for other purposes, such as: lighting environments where the sun does not reach, cooking food, water pasteurization, etc. and without the need to use any type of energy other than solar radiation. We have therefore studied and created a simple, cheap and easy to use heliostat. The study and creation of the first prototypes required several years and involved considerable economic resources. A medium-sized coffee roasting plant (30 kg/hour) was also built. The plant, the Hw/Sw projects, the patents, the prototypes, were brought by the partners supplied to the new Start Up Digitarch Farm which will develop the production and commercial process using the already registered PuroSole brand.

The Royal Trumpets

Faire: Central Oregon

Maker: Adam Foster

Home: New York, United States

The Royal Trumpets are an EPIC series of 6 kinetic pyrotechnic sound sculptures that stand 15' tall, connected to a keyboard, you can make come play music!

PC Fisso Portatile – Portable Desktop

Faire: Rome

Maker: Mirko Tumbiolo

Our project consists in changing the common use of a desktop, allowing you to carry it wherever you want with the comfort of a simple backpack. It consists precisely in mounting the hardware on a wooden fiber structure which in turn fits into a specially modified backpack to allow the use of peripherals, an integrated display with stereo sound system and which guarantees adequate cooling. In addition, thanks to a battery we were able to guarantee a desktop computer an autonomy and much greater than a laptop, of 50 hours.

Lasers + Legos

Faire: NW Arkansas

Maker: Bruce Wagar

Home: Arizona, United States

Lasers + Legos = Fun combination of wood and toys! Learn about how you can use the Fayetteville Library Maker Space to combine different items to make really fun items for kids and adults.

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.

CORTEX AUTOMATIONS

Faire: Rome

Maker: luca cortelli

Cortex is the universal controller for CNC machines or industrial automation. It is equipped with the GRBL HALL firmware, a well-known open-source firmware that allows for the control of such machinery, and a customizable and expandable user interface. The controller has been designed to meet the needs of both the industrial sector and makers, ensuring the right level of safety and ease of assembly, thanks to its RJ45 connectors that simplify and speed up wiring, reducing connection errors. In this way, even those without specific knowledge in electronics or informatics can use it easily and intuitively, making work even more manageable. The main goal of the project is to create a community that can develop the CNC technologies, a sector that has been somewhat neglected compared to that of 3D printers, despite its importance in the industrial field. Cortex offers makers and industry professionals the necessary tools to develop and improve their own projects. Its flexibility and versatility make it suitable for various applications in which the control of motors, sensors, and actuators is necessary, in addition to its use on CNC machines.

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.

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