Back to Rome there Maker Faire, the fair of digital craftsmen which, now in its third edition, has moved, after the experiences of the past years to the Palazzo dei Congressi dell'Eur and to the Auditorium, within the framework of the university city of Sapienza, from 16 to 18 October.
A fair capable, in terms of size (over 15 square meters of exhibition space), of rivaling the most important world events dedicated to innovation, such as those in New York and San Francisco, and which intends, once again, to give the utmost visibility to a reality, the Digital manufacturing, constantly growing and which tells of a revolution which, never as in these moments, seems to have become accessible to everyone.
One of the main reasons of interest in the Maker Faire is the co-presence, within it, of a large number of different souls, which make it accessible to a wide range of visitors.
There is the playful soul, for example, that of simple enthusiasts or amateurs and children who will be bewitched by the drone aviary (about 300 square meters wide and 22 meters high), and from over 600 stands 700 inventions on display, as well as an area completely dedicated to children of almost three thousand square meters.
But there is also thedidactic soul with ninety laboratories and hundreds of workshops and seminars dedicated to those who want to learn something more about digital craftsmanship or that of artists and musicians, with Maker Music, an area created in collaboration with the Sugarmusic label.
Finally, there is the corporate soul, demonstrated by the high-profile sponsors of the event (Eni is among the gold sponsors) and by the ever-increasing presence of innovative craftsmanship within our companies. An importance told, much more than by words, by the numbers of the report "Made in Italy”, presented during the fair, which recounts the growth of the penetration of digital making in Italian companies and its role as a driving force for companies, signaling the gap that is widening between companies where digital manufacturing has penetrated and those in which this it didn't happen.
For numbers alone, 3D printing is currently present in 33,3% of manufacturing companies involved in Made in Italy, while 30,5% of them have adopted robotics and 16,5% both. After all, Italy is one of the leading countries in the sector, so much so that it is third in the world for the number of Fablabs.
Many noteworthy inventions that can be admired inside the Fair, from the robotic arm for motor rehabilitation to the telephone for the deafblind, passing through 3D printed bijoux, intelligent bicycles, the kit for making vinegar with Arduino, characters typographical made-to-measure products, the musical dress, the lamp that teaches languages, the interactive mirror with news, social networks and weather forecasts
All within a reality in which the contribution of the large Italian groups was felt strongly. Among the protagonists of the event there is also Tim, Frartner of the European edition of Maker Faire 2015 e present with the innovation of the university laboratories created by the company to generate ideas and new technological solutions.
Tim, in his stand, proposes projects designed to give life to new ways of interacting between people and with objects in real and virtual contexts thanks to ultra-fast connections, such as Smart Agriculture, or an intelligent and connected table football with Soccer Cup, or Energy District shows with a very evocative model how to use ultrabroadband to reduce costs and waste in the distribution of energy in a smart city and the Smart Drones, new drones equipped with ultra-broad connectivity from TIM that send live sensor readings and video streams taken by on-board video cameras to the ground.
At Maker Faire is also present Bank Ifis (bronze sponsor of the event), which presents the "Botteghe Digitali" project and the collection of membership forms dedicated to companies and artisans who want to be protagonists of the video-reality and the subsequent steps of transformation of the company from "traditional" to “digital, through a series of projects aimed at the contamination between different skills and competences which, if put together, generate an invaluable value for the economy.
On Saturday 18 October at 11:45 (Room 7), the CEO of the institute Giovanni Bossi will also be present, who will participate in a debate with Cat Allman, Science Outreach and Open Source Program Manager at Google and Stefano Micelli, author of “Futuro Artigiano”, entitled “New businesses, technology and the market: from maker culture to new craftsmanship”.
