From 7 to 9 October 2022 “Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition” is back Once again this year, the unmissable event at “Maker Faire Rome 2022 – The European Edition“. The event – promoted by the Rome Chamber of Commerce and organised by its special company Innova Camera – now in its tenth…
Maker Faire Rome is the largest European innovation event publicly showcasing inventions, ideas, solutions, the latest discoveries in technological research, robotics and artificial intelligence. At Maker Faire Rome we are always looking for people who can show us the future that lies just around the corner, something we need today more than ever. This year’s…
Big financial problems for Maker Media that blocked all operations and fired all the staff. For the uninitiated Maker Media means MAKE magazine and above all Maker Faire. Some rumors were born with the last Maker Faire Bay Area: the loss of sponsors like Autodesk, Intel and Microsoft had led Dale Dougherty to…
The European edition of Maker Faire just started today. It’s organised by InnovaCamera, a Special Agency of the Rome Chamber of Commerce, whose mission is to place the city of Rome at the centre of the debate on innovation, by spreading the digital culture, and developing the individual and collective entrepreneurship that is so integral to…
OtterBox pre-engineered a Raspberry Pi case for those who want to use a Raspberry Pi with an iPhone. The OtterBox uniVERSE case system is available for iPhone 6-8, iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro (9.7”). The uniVERSE smartphone case system not only protects your iPhone from drops, it allows you connect all manner of phone…
Making requires curiosity, creativity, and courage. Makers are people who think critically in order to find solutions to difficult problems. Finding the right solution, however, takes a lot of wrong prototypes. Only through this iterative process do we find the best path forward. This is true of both products and business models. As a company, TechShop…
Casa Jasmina is a prototype Italian family home, where most objects and services are made by open source, maker-style methods built in a derelict factory. Built in Torino, Italy by Jasmina Tesanovic and Bruce Sterling with the help of the Arduino organization, Casa Jasmina pushed the boundaries of what a home-automation system would be like…
Among the most famous and influential women in the world of Makers, there is certainly Naomi Wu. Many of you know her with the nickname “SexyCyborg“. We wanted to interview her to understand how she has achieved this popularity and to understand what she thinks of the OpenSource world. Boris Landoni – You…
How you can read from his Twitter profile, Dale Dougherty is the Founder of MAKE Magazine and creator of Maker Faire. I had the opportunity to interview him about the makers, about Arduino and Raspberry Pi and obviously about the open-source world. Boris Landoni – We often hear the word “Maker”, but what features…
After winning a design prize in 2014 when Ewe showed during the Maker Faire Rome its ERA 3D printer, this year they presented two more interesting models, a big printer (60x40cm printing area) named Olympia and a delta printer kit. An interesting filament extruder has been released too, very useful to allow you creating your…
There has been a lot of chatter in the startup community about a company you may not have heard of. Quirky, which makes Wink (a major player in the smart home space), raised over $180MM over the course of six years from prominent investors and then filed for bankruptcy on September 22, 2015. Quirky has…
Take any 3D printer, throw on this modular head, and use it as an EDM machine to do precise metal carving. Exciting stuff! Electro-Discharge Machining or “spark erosion” is a fairly specialized field that not many hobbyists are familiar with. The technique flips traditional electrical design upside down by trying to maximize a phenomenon that…
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