HUGE aviary, the largest of its kind in Europe. Where instead of birds, he will fly a flock of drones. Then a 3D printer for six high twelve meter in diameter, with which the company of Ravenna Wasp is able to realize whole housing. And yet the Internet of things, sensors of all kinds applied to the music, to food, to cars, to clothes, to toys. To make them smart, interactive fun. Also this year will exhibit creativity in all its forms, the Maker Faire of Rome, Italian leg of the exhibition dedicated to new digital artisans. But in addition to amazement, says Eugenio Gaudio, rector of La Sapienza University, whose campus hosts this year from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 the fair, at stake is something more: “The ability to bring together those who study, undergraduates, graduate students and scientists, with the producer and can give shape to their ideas. ” And maybe turn them into a product to bring to market.
Because over the years the maker movement, born in the United States as un’accolita inventors garage, has come a long way. And their technologies have become much more gear DIY 2.0. 3D printers “desk” for example, the amateur, are ever involved in an industrial quality, as evidenced by the machines of the Vicenza DWS, true multinational. The drones, born as a pastime for modellers, represent a market worth billions. And the cards hardware Arduino, born in Ivrea, are used to hack the consumer products. “Contamination”, as the special section of the exhibition will present the result of collaboration among six Fab lab, laboratories maker, and many artisans of the area. A vinegar digital born Reggio Emilia, which can occur in the home dressing. Or the jewelry that the designer Paola Volpi has made 3D printing: “Experiments that represent the model of a new Made in Italy”, explains Stefano Micelli, Professor at the University Ca ‘Foscari of Venice, who oversaw the section. “Companies that adopt the digital manufacturing, especially medium ones, have growth rates higher than the competitors’.
As noted by a survey of the cult magazine Make , many of these inventors, in Rome there will be 600, created for pleasure. But that theirs is anything but a niche amateurs, isolated from the market, it demonstrates the interest of Intel, who here last year presented a profile in partnership with Arduino. And what of the giant Chinese IngDan that with its two million members is the largest e-commerce platform for the Internet of things of the Dragon, the new (and generous) sponsors of the event. Fifteen participants will select innovators to bring them to the Maker Faire Shenzhen 2016 and toured the local Silicon Valley, one of the global electronics manufacturing.
The conference’s opening of the fair, organized by Asset-Room, company of the Chamber of Commerce of Rome, it is scheduled for Friday morning. On stage, some of the icons of the movement maker as Massimo Banzi, creator of Arduino, and scientists like Roberto Cingolani, Director of the Italian technology, which will stage the humanoid robot Walk-man. Saturday and Sunday, the two days open to the public, each section of the campus dedicated to the application of technology in a different sector, from food to fashion, from robotics to the environment, and new this year, the music. Here you will be able to play their own brain waves, or a violin printed in three dimensions. What will be the most popular area, in the end, you will understand thanks to technology startups Italian Measurence, which will detect the movement of people between the halls through a system of sensors wifi and bluetooth.
Friday will be the day reserved for school groups. But every day will open an area Kids, where children between 5 and 16 can learn how to program or hack their own toys with educators specialized in new technologies. “We want to show to young people that science can excite,” says Eugenio Gaudio. In the hope that once you get to high school or college find spaces up to their inventiveness. Fab lab like that more and more American institutions, including MIT and Harvard, are gearing up. In Italy, as stated on a report of the Make in Italy, it is about seventy, a nice number. But for now more in contexts related to the production, warehouses and workshops, which in the classroom.
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