• All Calls open: applications by 26 June

      From 7 to 9 October 2022 “Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition” is back Once again this year, the unmissable event at “Maker Faire Rome 2022 – The European Edition“. The event – promoted by...

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  • COME BACK TO MAKER FAIRE ROME – THE EUROPEAN EDITION 2021

    Maker Faire Rome is the largest European innovation event publicly showcasing inventions, ideas, solutions, the latest discoveries in technological research, robotics and artificial intelligence. At Maker Faire Rome we are always looking for people who can show...

    • Posted 3 years ago
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  • The end of the Makers movement? What happened at Maker Media?

        Big financial problems for Maker Media that blocked all operations and fired all the staff. For the uninitiated Maker Media means MAKE magazine and above all Maker Faire. Some rumors were born with the last...

    • Posted 5 years ago
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  • Maker Faire Roma 2018: Today is the Day!

    The European edition of Maker Faire just started today. It’s organised by InnovaCamera, a Special Agency of the Rome Chamber of Commerce, whose mission is to place the city of Rome at the centre of the debate on...

    • Posted 5 years ago
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  • OtterBox uniVERSE Connects Your iPhone to a Raspberry Pi

    OtterBox pre-engineered a Raspberry Pi case for those who want to use a Raspberry Pi with an iPhone. The OtterBox uniVERSE case system is available for iPhone 6-8, iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro (9.7”). The uniVERSE...

    • Posted 6 years ago
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  • TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares bankruptcy

    Making requires curiosity, creativity, and courage. Makers are people who think critically in order to find solutions to difficult problems. Finding the right solution, however, takes a lot of wrong prototypes. Only through this iterative process do we...

    • Posted 6 years ago
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  • Casa Jasmina: Home Automation Masterpiece

    Casa Jasmina is a prototype Italian family home, where most objects and services are made by open source, maker-style methods built in a derelict factory. Built in Torino, Italy by Jasmina Tesanovic and Bruce Sterling with the...

    • Posted 6 years ago
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  • Amazing interview with Naomi ‘SexyCyborg’ Wu

      Among the most famous and influential women in the world of Makers, there is certainly Naomi Wu. Many of you know her with the nickname “SexyCyborg“. We wanted to interview her to understand how she has...

    • Posted 7 years ago
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  • Interview to Dale Dougherty: Founder & CEO MAKE Magazine and Maker Faire

        How you can read from his Twitter profile, Dale Dougherty is the Founder of MAKE Magazine and creator of Maker Faire. I had the opportunity to interview him about the makers, about Arduino and Raspberry Pi and...

    • Posted 7 years ago
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  • Ewe industries releases its acclaimed printers seen at MFR Rome 2015

    After winning a design prize in 2014 when Ewe showed during the Maker Faire Rome its ERA 3D printer, this year they presented two more interesting models, a big printer (60x40cm printing area) named Olympia and a...

    • Posted 8 years ago
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  • Why Quirky Failed — Lessons learned

    There has been a lot of chatter in the startup community about a company you may not have heard of. Quirky, which makes Wink (a major player in the smart home space), raised over $180MM over the...

    • Posted 8 years ago
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  • Carve Metal With Electricity in Your 3D Printer | Make:

    Take any 3D printer, throw on this modular head, and use it as an EDM machine to do precise metal carving. Exciting stuff! Electro-Discharge Machining or “spark erosion” is a fairly specialized field that not many hobbyists...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • A new starting point in the Maker’s Movement – infographic

    Maker’s movement is gaining members and popularity every day running, impacting nowadays on the way we make, build, industrialize goods. CustomMade prepared an interesting infographics showing where we are now: The maker movement is made up of...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • Save the date: European Maker Faire Rome 16-18 October 2015

    Maker Faire Rome 2015 The Maker Faire returns in 2015. For the third consecutive year, Rome will host the European Edition of the most important innovation exhibition. After having made its debut at the Palazzo dei Congressi...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • Open Source Ecology shows how to enter a $100B market with Open Source

    Critics of the open source economy point out that “Open source is a system of development that doesn’t have the requisite positive feedback loops needed to build a viable economic system.” Open Source Ecology released their “4...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • The Open Source Snow Plow Robot: discovering the Firmware

        Just a few weeks ago, we presented in this blog the maker version of a motorized snowplow, similar to those  available in many bricolage shopping malls. In fact our robot is a particular caterpillar track,...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • 32,000 Open Source Hardware Designs available on Upverter!

    Upverter is a community hosting schematics, blueprints, bill of materials, very often also full layouts. Today they hit an incredible goal, read it directly from their annoucement: “This morning, our community has publicly shared over 32,000 open...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • Hydro: The First Low Cost Waterjet Cutter for less than $5K

    Waterjet cutters are generally huge machines, with equally large price tags. But what if there was a hobbyist level waterjet cutter that was actually affordable? Well, for their Senior Design Project at the University of Pennsylvania, Adam...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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