Today finally starts the European Edition of Maker Faire. Until 3rd December Maker Faire Rome offers a huge schedule where you can find workshops, performance, talks and events dedicated to kids and adults. To participate you have to reach the room where the event will be taken a few minutes before its beginning ( participation…
The fifth edition of Maker Faire The European Edition will start the first of December at Fiera di Roma. Here you can find how to get there. Remember to subscribe Maker Faire’s newsletter for news, updates and discounts. While we are waiting for the Maker Faire Rome, The second European Maker Week is starting! “From…
What are you waiting for? The Call for Schools is open! Send us your proposal UNTIL OCT 28 ! Bring your project, we’ll take care of everything else! We’ll give you a table and chairs in one of the Faire’s pavilions; they will be filled with visitors, people eager to look around and makers from all over the…
Are You ready for the European Edition 2017? If you are a college student you’ll be happy to know that “Call for Universities and Research Institutes” is open until OCTOBER 15 TH “Bring your project, together we will give visibility to your invention! Will be many visitors, curious, makers from around the world who want…
Just 2 weeks ago we spoke about the extended deadline to October 1. But it’s not enough, because we’re getting some breaking news out of Maker Faire Rome website: Call For Maker deadline has been extended to October 8! Dear friends, In the last few hours we have been collected many requests by makers asking for…
Maker Faire Rome is a great celebration of invention, open to all forms of applied creativity, from the most serious to the most imaginative projects, from new technologies to traditional arts and crafts. What will you bring to Maker Faire Rome this year in order to shock visitors? There’s still time to take part of…
In the past year, Earth has seen monthly temperatures reach record highs, Arctic ice levels plummet to new lows, and CO2 levels spike like never before. Meanwhile, the average American is producing four pounds of garbage and consuming 100 gallons of water every day. Here is a selection, from 3ders.org, of the most interesting projects…
Plastic can easily be recycled. It needs relative low temperatures and pressures. Look around and you’ll notice plastic waste is everywhere around us. We just need to sort it and have tools to turn it into new things. PRECIOUS PLASTIC – THE MACHINES This project is a set of plastic machines, developed to set up…
Okay this is not strictly open source and making, but it is an interesting thought about what we do for susteinability and environment. Could you imagine that a cat picture is wasting our Earth’s resources? Facebook could, and is using a nice approach. And you, are you thinking to save power every day? When it…
This event which has been just announced as a collaboration between OuiShare and OpenState, has an ambitious plan: bring all the Open Source creators together near Paris this summer to build solutions for sustainable living. POC21 (Proof Of Concept 21) is an accelerator for open source sustainability, co-produced by OuiShare and OpenState. In 2015, we will…
Dave Hakkens finally had some time to focus on his important side project Precious Plastic: a set of plastic machines, developed to set up a small scale plastic workshop. The machinery is based on general industrial techniques, but designed to build yourself. The machine is easy to use and made to work with recycled plastic. …
http://vimeo.com/74192853 The Open Source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world. The project proposes to design hives that can support bee colonies in a sustainable way, to monitor and track the health and behaviour of a colony as it develops. Each hive contains…
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