Sunday, October 18, 2015

Maker Faire, one hundred thousand appearances in three days Campus of Wisdom – The Republic

Over one hundred thousand appearances in three days. A gates still open the third annual Maker Faire is already a success, exceeding the result of last year edition at the Parco della Musica (who recorded 90 thousand total admissions) and confirming its position as the most-watched event in Rome except those religious , sports and music. Families with children, young students, adults intrigued, entrepreneurs and professionals in the field since last Friday and all weekend filled the dozens of pavilions set up in the streets of the university town of Wisdom, which has become the stage for robot drones, innovations IT and futuristic 3D printers.

“In addition to students and young Italians – said Lorenzo Tagliavanti, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Rome, the main promoter of the fair – attended the event too many foreigners and many businessmen, who came to see if you can enter into the production cycles of their companies some of the products that are on display here. ” Thus ends an event that saw meet artisans and digital information technology giants, from Google to Intel, in an exhibition that presented for the first time to the public Italian (and European level, in most cases) more than 700 inventions in the fields most diverse: from video games, with glasses Cardboard Google that cut costs of augmented reality, all’edizilia, with 3D printed 12 meters high that can create an entire home.

Not only that, because the most advanced printing technologies in three dimensions are put at the service of archeology. In December, in fact, Rome will host the reproductions of some of the reliefs destroyed by the fury of terrorism Isis in Palmyra and Nineveh, made its own printer presented at Maker Faire. It is an experimental project signed by the “Meeting of civilizations” chaired by Francesco Rutelli, who explains: “With this project we want to show that the idea of ​​the destruction can be defeated.” The technical innovation of the initiative is that for the first time the original is gone, and the reproductions will be based with the images and supports that are available to the scientific community. “We are very proud – continues the former mayor of Rome – because this operation is all Italian, and we do not exclude, after the two bas-reliefs, also play

architectures destroyed.”

The numbers of this third edition of innovation (100 thousand square meters of exhibition, 600 booths and more than 700 inventions) pose the Roman event, importance and international significance, behind only the Maker Faire in New York and San Francisco, managing to make it stand out in Europe . It is no coincidence, in fact, if the appointment has already been confirmed between the events in the capital for the next two years.

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