Maker Faire Yearbook 2023
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Centro per l’Artigianato Digitale
Faire: Rome
Maker: Medaarch s.r.l. s.t.p.
Back to Maker Faire Rome, the extraordinary space dedicated entirely to artisans, manufacturing processes, and the digital revolution! Following the success of 2018 and 2019, Medaarch - in collaboration with WASP and Lab Mec - by popular demand, reintroduces the Center for Digital Craftsmanship for the 2023 edition of Maker Faire Rome. A 145 m² space designed as a public lounge where live demonstrations showcase how the connection between Italian craftsmanship, experimentation, and digital technology is contributing to the revival of Made in Italy, the enhancement of talents, the regeneration of territories, and the creation of an innovation ecosystem.
This space is dedicated to the new Renaissance, where one can admire high-impact and commercially successful design solutions achieved through a skillful combination of traditional processes and the use of new digital technologies.
The project's protagonists are the new artisan workshops: innovative and competitive enterprises operating in the excellence sectors of Made in Italy, such as fashion, ceramics, wood, and glass. These enterprises will guide us on a special journey into the new era of expertise, where creativity and technological innovation merge to generate large-scale innovations.
So, mark your calendars from October 20th to 22nd at Fiera Roma in the Life Pavilion. Over the three days, eight enterprises will demonstrate their processes and the ways they have chosen to use new digital tools, showing how technological solutions can already find fertile ground in Italian production chains, creating strong opportunities for manufacturing and Made in Italy talent.
There will be a chance to experience the most interesting virtual reality applications for craftsmanship, presented by Sautech, Medaarch, and Enco with the Artista project. You'll encounter the history and art of master Giuseppe Cicalese, who will create ceramic and sculptural works through live demonstrations involving 3D printing and virtual reality. You'll meet the talent of designer Marianna Capuano, who will showcase Tiffany glass works created with digital fabrication support.
You can admire wooden design pieces by master Luca Colacicco, created through digital manufacturing and designed by Medaarch. You'll witness the creation of fashion products by designer Giulia Scalera, expertly combining 3D printing processes and art couture.
Furthermore, you can discover how 3D printing can be applied to sustainable design, admiring 3D-printed ceramic objects and green furnishings from the Mediterranea collection by Medaarch.
Last but not least, Medaarch has dedicated space to professional training opportunities for students, startups, companies, and makers looking to grow through digital innovation and hands-on training based on experimentation, research, and digital innovation.
In summary, it's an immersive experience to explore the beauty and charm of Made in Italy 5.0 talent, complemented by the integration of digital technologies through which the involved companies have found a unique and innovative way to engage.
The space at Maker Faire Rome, created by Medaarch in collaboration with WASP and Lab Mac - who have provided their cutting-edge technologies for the three days (particularly, WASP brings the 40100 Clay Production and the 3MT HDP) - reproduces the structure of the Center for Digital Craftsmanship in Cava de' Tirreni, the first in Italy entirely dedicated to revitalizing Made in Italy through the digital transformation of businesses and artisans.
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.
Start2Fit
Faire: Rome
Maker: LDB consulting di Livio di Bartolomeo
Star2Fit with its pioneering functions is an opportunity to understand how much and how the sports sector is evolving
thanks to the availability of innovative technologies such as body recognition, which through AI allows us to understand
how correctly the user's exercises are carried out, rather than the use of YpsilonX smartglasses which allow real-time
reception of data from those carrying out sporting activities or the adoption of wearables to record users' movements.
Swipe Mobility – Your Handy Vehicle
Faire: Rome
Maker: Swipe Mobility
Swipe Mobility is a project aimed at developing new portable micromobility products. With our products, we aim to improve the quality and environmental impact of last-mile urban transportation. Our proposed product is a vehicle consisting of motorized soles that can be attached to shoes during use. The vehicle's acceleration and deceleration are controlled through a smartphone acting as a remote control. Once finished using the vehicle, it can be conveniently stored in the provided backpack or bag.
SLY empowers wildfire resilience
Faire: Rome
Maker: SLY
SLY is pioneering a transformative approach to wildfire detection and mitigation. By harnessing the convergence of artificial intelligence at the edge, novel semiconductor gas sensing, and global NB-IOT connectivity, we provide a solution that not only detects wildfires during their incipient stages but also predicts their potential evolution, thereby enabling more efficient and timely responses. SLY offers a ground-breaking solution that improves the cost-effectiveness, speed, accuracy, and sustainability of wildfire detection and mitigation, making a significant impact on a global issue.
LibraryMed
Faire: Rome
Maker: Epitomea
Clients & problems:
Healthcare professionals and students. Busy schedules, statistical illiteracy and information saturation make it difficult for them to stay up-to-date. “In the biomedical field alone, more than 1 million articles pour into the PubMed database each year […]” (Nature). The problems are known, but hard to quantify in net terms. Our clients difficulties lies in that periodic and in-depth professional updating activity is a work in itself. Sacrificing patient hours for studying is sometimes not possible. Among the most unpleasant consequences, the discovery that a patient has been treated with an outdated therapy. Such an eventuality would be preferable not to be turned turn into a "necessary evil", a painful trade-off between the number of patients who require treatment and the quality of the treatment that can be administered. In addition to the suffering on a strictly human level, another problem that is becoming more acute is that of lawsuits for "malpractice". Growing, they discourage doctors from riskier practices for patients, as well as young people from embarking on a medical career.
Our solution:
it can be described as a search engine which, because of an AI algorithm, is able to:
- Search for scientific articles related to a specific query and summarize their content;
- Classify the results on the basis of various parameters (e.g. methodological value, citations, impact factor), assigning them a qualitative value, thus identifying the most solid research;
- Aggregate the results based on the aforementioned parameters;
- Produce an output that can be consulted quickly, listing the sources on which the analysis was conducted to draw up an effective overview on which to plan an update;
- Assisting researcher in scientific writing & data production;
- Automatic meta-analysis.
Innovation:
First, we will move away from the DSS (Decision Support System) approach of our main competitor, Uptodate.com, to embrace a full AI paradigm. Then, we will find a niche in the scientific publication sector, by creating a set of tool for many scientists willing to publish high quality research. By doing to, our analytic efficiency will further increase. We already have a registered trademark and an industrial patent.
lit
Faire: Rome
Maker: Helios Domotics S.r.l.
lit has developed a user-friendly product that
allows you to monitor domestic and
commercial electricity. Using a plug and play
device, which works through AI and Machine
Learning, lit allows you to reduce energy
waste and CO2 emissions.
The solution is made up of two parts: the
litbox (the hardware component), which is
installed on the phase or life-saving cable, and
the litapp (the software component), which
translates the user's consumption in terms of
energy used, money spent and CO2 emitted,
for each device.
I Can Feel My Legs
Faire: Rome
Maker: Gaetano Carlino
I Can Feel My Legs is a lower limb prosthesis whose purpose is to help people who have disabilities and/or difficulties in walking.
What we present is the first working prototype showing toe movement that is done through the use of a wearable sock, for the initial acquisition of movement that will then be implemented through a self-learning neural network in order to improve its efficiency and responsiveness, which will be able to simulate toe movement.
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
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.
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.
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.
EGO – Trasporti Carbon Neutral
Faire: Rome
Maker: Fondazione di Partecipazione dell'Istituto Tecnico Superiore "Area Tecnologica della Mobilità Sostenibile – Logistica e Sistemi e Servizi Innovativi per la Mobilità di Persone e Merci"
EGO is a system composed of a CO2 sensor, position sensors, telemetry mounted on board the vehicle and a cloud platform that collects miles of real data from the vehicles. AI algorithms suggest optimized routes and driving behaviors aimed at reducing the CO2 produced. EGO allows its complete compensation of the remaining CO2, purchasing carbon credits that will be used by Treebu for the planting of paulownia in the territories where the transport company operates. The compensation is certified by EGO to the transport company which can highlight it with its customers and effectively increase CSR.
PARKINSON DETECTOR: intelligenza artificiale e medicina
Faire: Rome
Maker: I.T.I. OMAR Novara
Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are increasingly being used in medical diagnosis. Parkinson Detector is an Artificial Intelligence system capable of recognizing the typical motor impairments of Parkinson's disease. In particular, it identifies abnormalities in the oscillation of the upper limbs, such as symmetry and amplitude, which are currently of interest to clinicians as possible early indicators of the disease. The markerless system is non-invasive for the patient and easy to use, consisting of a PC, two cameras, and two specifically developed AI software.
SENTINEL
Faire: Rome
Maker: Feel-ING SRL
The SENTINEL project aims to promote wellness in the workplace providing an ad-hoc platform to monitor psychophysics pitfalls that could threaten workers’ and teams’ security. Being in the context of Internet of Things (IoT), it exploits wearable and comfortable devices (such as smartwatches, smart clothes or sports bands) and emotive artificial intelligence algorithms.
Carbonium – LISA
Faire: Rome
Maker: Carbonium
LISA is a museum video guide in sign language, a device that allows deaf visitors to take advantage of the otherwise inaccessible insights of audio guides, using artificial intelligence algorithms to recognize works of art. LISA is an open source project, and is intended to be easily configurable and adaptable to individual museums.
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.
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.
Info Point Olografico tridimensionale Interattivo con Intelligenza Artificiale
Faire: Rome
Maker: Media Engineering Srl
An AI-powered agri-food holographic avatar can offer detailed food information, assist with personalized recipes, assess environmental impacts, guide diets, suggest trends, and educate on safety and sustainability, benefiting consumers and producers alike.
WoodyMaker
Faire: Rome
Maker: Manuela Quaglietti
WoodyMaker produces objects that we have baptized original, special, beautiful "things" to give on different occasions, something that remains, can be worn or exhibited, capable of communicating data, messages and emotions.
The project is based on the creativity of a craftsman who works wood with new generation tools such as lasercut to produce "things" engraved with a "code" that communicates with a software platform created to give the customer the possibility to customize that "thing" and communicate something to third parties.
We went further… creating “things” that contain electronic boards and sensors able to communicate with the surrounding environment!
Our project aims to demonstrate how creativity and old crafts can merge with new technologies to create "things" that are pleasant to look at, made with natural materials, a new profession is born, the technological craftsman.
WoodyMaker aims to bring craftsmanship to the fore in a new form!
You will be able to see and touch surprising "things" at the fair that will be exhibited in preview, discover details and have all kinds of information, for the little ones we have created educational courses to learn the basic techniques for creating 2D/3D models.
Mind Room Lab
Faire: Rome
Maker: LDB consulting di Livio di Bartolomeo
Mind Room Lab, the company that has developed a series of scientific tools and a comprehensive and innovative program of assessment and training of sport-specific cognitive abilities, using the most recent contributions from neuroscience.
TrueBees
Faire: Rome
Maker: U-Hopper srl
TrueBees is a blockchain-based system able to guarantee that a given visual content shared on social media is trustworthy, in the sense that it has not been synthetically generated by AI.
TrueBees provides an answer to the questions: Should I trust this image? Should I reshare/publish it? Is the identity depicted in this image a real person?
For detecting possible deepfakes, TrueBees relies upon AI technology developed and fine-tuned by our top-notch researchers. On a reference dataset our system reported an accuracy of 98.05% with images shared on Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram and Twitter.
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.
Slammer: Un robot rover autonomo, nato come progetto per imparare la robotica e ROS 2
Faire: Rome
Maker: Pizza Robotics
A rover robot built as a learnign platform for robotics. Based on several open source technologies (like ROS 2), it is also used as a development platform for uNav(https://blog.alessiomorale.com/unav2/), an advanced, open, motor control platform for robotic applications. This robot uses several sensors (Depth camera, lidar, IMU & GPS) to sense the surrounding environment, map and navigate autonomously, avoiding obstacles.AI Real-Time Object Detection algorithms are used to detect objects in the surrounding environment.
