Maker’s movement is gaining members and popularity every day running, impacting nowadays on the way we make, build, industrialize goods. CustomMade prepared an interesting infographics showing where we are now: The maker movement is made up of some 135 million adults in the U.S., however, it’s more than just a U.S. movement. Maker faires that…
Maker Faire Rome 2015 The Maker Faire returns in 2015. For the third consecutive year, Rome will host the European Edition of the most important innovation exhibition. After having made its debut at the Palazzo dei Congressi and recorded about 90 thousand visitors at the Parco della Musica, the Maker Faire Rome 2015 is about…
Critics of the open source economy point out that “Open source is a system of development that doesn’t have the requisite positive feedback loops needed to build a viable economic system.” Open Source Ecology released their “4 years review” demonstrating the contrary. OSE mission is to build the 50 machines fundamental to live our modern…
[youtube id=”tCZE3e39XkM” width=”620″ height=”360″] Just a few weeks ago, we presented in this blog the maker version of a motorized snowplow, similar to those available in many bricolage shopping malls. In fact our robot is a particular caterpillar track, a miniature version of the traditional snowplow but that can be radio controlled easyly with…
Upverter is a community hosting schematics, blueprints, bill of materials, very often also full layouts. Today they hit an incredible goal, read it directly from their annoucement: “This morning, our community has publicly shared over 32,000 open source hardware designs with the world. They span the full range of dev boards, power supplies, home automation,…
Waterjet cutters are generally huge machines, with equally large price tags. But what if there was a hobbyist level waterjet cutter that was actually affordable? Well, for their Senior Design Project at the University of Pennsylvania, Adam Libert and his team made one that could retail for less than $5000: “I was the lead mechanical…
Have you ever dreamed about having a real Satellite by your own, or at least control it through a 3D printed, open source, networked station? People at SatNOGS did, here is what they say about their project: “We love satellites! And there are thousands of them up there. SatNOGS provides a scalable and modular platform…
We present a caterpillar robot based on Arduino Uno, remotely controlled through a Play Station 2 wireless controllers. Since we are not insensitive to solutions making life easier, we have considered the idea of creating and proposing something that could help us avoiding the cold and fatigue of using the usual manual shovel and…
The second Italian edition of the European Maker Faire, held in Rome from 3rd to 5th October, is just ended and has became a very big hit. Here are a few numbers: 90,000 visitors (3 times more than last year!), 600 exhibitors from all over Europe, 15,000 kids that visited the exhibitions and took part…
A cool Education Prokect is rising money on Indidegogo, with a book, experimentation boards and all: including private lessons! From the Italian Alberto Piganti. A well curated project that you may enjoy supporting (already got the needed funding though!) BE MAKER! KIT plus FREE lessons on electronics, from Zero to Internet of Things |…
Maker Faire Rome was a blast. More than thirty thousands people visited the show and wandered around the stands. Since I was there to cover the “ReMake the World” conference in day one and the “Business of Making” event on day two, I was completely short in time availability but, at some point, I just…
Missed Day1 “How To ReMake the World” Conference? Read our First Day Recap! Despite the second day of the Rome Maker Faire was mainly the day of Schools (incredible to see the huge number of boys and girls wandering around the stands), afternoon’s faire program featured the Tech Garage event, where a huge number of startups pitched in front…
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