Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Back to Maker Faire, the digital talent make stops in Rome – The Messenger

Approximately 100 thousand square meters of “village”, fifteen of exhibition space, 300 square meters – and 22 meters high – the aviary for drones, more than 600 stands, 65 countries represented, and, above all, more than 700 inventions, the best selected from 1300 projects came from all over the world. It will be a real citadel of innovation, between training and enterprise, one that 16 to 18 October, for the third edition of the European Maker Faire – the largest in the world along with those of San Francisco and New York – promoted by Room of Commerce and organized by Asset Room, animate and transform environments and programming of the University La Sapienza.

“We want to be the place where there is not only the knowledge and know-how but when you design the future starting from young, “said the rector, Eugenio Gaudio. “This event is a wonderful challenge to broaden the horizons of the city,” said the governor of Lazio, Nicola Zingaretti, who then promised: “Soon the laboratories of Lazio of technology will bring a 3D printer.” “The setting of the business world is changing, even in Rome, and this Maker Faire has a big role,” said Marta Leonori, city councilor for Commerce.

In the spotlight of the event, the future , to be built with strokes of imagination, intuition and talent. More still, exchange and sharing. The Fair was born, in fact, as a meeting and exposition, not race, but when compared, to harnessing knowledge and expertise, creating opportunities for growth and, perhaps, work. Indeed, work. If the password is, in fact, innovation, its variations can be endless and touch on virtually every field, craft and profession.

FASHION AND DESIGN

 So off to fashion and design, with clothing and jewelry music printed in 3D, but also ecology, including bicycles and intelligent baskets able to manage the collection, not to mention the arts – Music Maker, area made Sugarmusic, welcome new tools music, experiments and live – training and information, with the lamp that teaches languages ​​and interactive mirror for news and social media. Great attention will be paid also to the tradition rethought, including agriculture and food, the robot that makes cocktails printing crepes in 3d, from the cap that track food storage kit to make vinegar, until vertical gardens and hydroponics. Rich program that will attract some of the most interesting innovators in the international arena even before the official opening of the fair, in a sort of countdown to the event.

THE EXHIBITION

 On 25 September, coinciding with the Night of researchers and for the International Year of Light, in the crypt of the university will inaugurate the exhibition “Science lights.” On 9 and 10 October, the event will be at Macro for The Big Hack, marathon of developers who will be confronted with the ” internet of things “applied to the issues indicated by Eni – occupational safety, mobility and open data – also for new app to be designed in view of the Jubilee. A reflection will be subject to the same city, at the conference “Made in Rome, how to remake the eternal city”, on October 15 at the Trajan Markets. To go on stage startupper, makers and inventors Romans, who will run until September 30 on the site of the fair, www.makerfairerome.eu.

AREA KIDS

 Tomorrow you will look for well in Kids, for children from 5 to 16 years, a true “gym” of techno-creativity, that Friday morning will host the special event Start Coding, the largest ever made for children in Europe that will see 2,500 children and young people get started in coding. Testimonial of the Maker Faire, Walkman, robots Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, which debuted at the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
         

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