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...

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...

    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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

    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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

    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,...

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...

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...