The greatest show and tell on earth is coming to Rome next October and it’s now time to organize and register to the events!

This is the agenda of MakerFaire Rome:

• Thursday 3rd October- Opening Conference “How to Remake the World” with special guests like Joey Hudy, Dale Dougherty,  Leah Buechley, David Gauntlett and many more! Get your free ticket >>
• Friday 4th October – Educational Day – Entrance for registered schools only – If you are a teacher and want to visit MakerFaire with your class book your reservations here (only in italian)
• Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th October – MakerFaire Rome days with over 200 projects from all over the world will be on show, including workshops, live demonstrations, and conference panels. Buy your ticket now >> (if you register by the 20th of September there’s a promotional code)

Check out the video below to see why you shouldn’t miss this event:

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Monday, September 16th, 2013 and is filed under events, MakerFaire.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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The power of infrared light was widely and best appreciated with invention of television’s remote controls. The signal between a remote control handset and the device it controls, consists of pulses of infrared light, which is not visible to the human eye.

Tomorrow at MakerFaire Dublin you’ll we able to see the work of AnalysIR, a project that is taking this technology to a whole new level.

They implemented a Windows application which connects to an Arduino with the addition of an IR receiver and can decode new IR signals in a fraction of the time: no need for expensive Logic Analyzers or Oscilloscopes.

Here they are with their Indiegogo campaign:

At MakerFaire they will be showing some cool demos of what you can do with IR like generating electricity, seeing the invisible -Using iPhone & Android camera to check if TV remote is working, long range TV remote Control Demo Using Optics and many more applications for a total of 10 installations. Look out for them on Saturday!

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Friday, July 26th, 2013 and is filed under arduino, MakerFaire.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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(message originally posted by Massimo Banzi on MakerfaireRome.eu)

Dear MakerFaire and Arduino friends,

In the past months we’ve been running around Europe with the Maker Faire tour to meet makers from many cities and for the first time we had a concrete perception that there’s a lot of tinkering and sharing in this part of the world.

I have to tell you a good news and I’d like to reach you all: we decided to extend the Call for Makers for some more days and allow you to defeat the procrastinator hiding in all of you ; )

The deadline to submit your application for Maker Faire Rome has now been extended to June 30. So don’t be shy or “lazy”  and join us with your project!

While our team is reading submitted applications until now, those who need more time will get some other days. So make the most of it and get your applications in NOW.

If you are a Maker, Performer or Presenter here are just some of the topics that we’re looking for:

– 3D Printing
- Robot
- Education
- Design
- Fashion
- Arduino
- Crafts
- Science
- Digital Fabrication
- Green
- Transportation
- Interaction
- Young Makers (under 16)

Remember that:

all the makers can post their questions and find an answer on the Arduino Forum, in the special section dedicated to MakerFaire Rome and follow all the news and updates in the social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Sunday, June 2nd, 2013 and is filed under Announcements, MakerFaire.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Some pictures of Arduino booth at MakerFaire Taipei!

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Friday, May 24th, 2013 and is filed under MakerFaire.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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MakerFaire Rome, for the first time gathering makers from all over Europe, is coming up and the clock is ticking while the Call for Makers closes next 2nd of June.
That’s why we thought to launch a call for collaboration to local hubs, makerspaces and fablab into helping us spreading the word.

If you are one of them and you think that makers from your city in Europe would be interested in  joining the event and submitting a project to the call, we can send you a package full of flyers, postcards, stickers and support you into organizing a local event about it.

To join the team of Proxies fill THIS short form with your name, city, country, name of your local hub and address and we’ll get back to you.

The form we’ll be open until monday 14th of May and then we’ll announce the list of those receiving the kit. We have only 50 kits available so be quick to feedback us

The MakerFaire Rome Ambassador Kit includes:
Posters
Flyers
Pins
Stickers
Tape
Postit
Small stickers

+ an exclusive limited edition Arduino Uno board

Thanks in advance for your help and support, and see you at Maker Faire Rome!

For any question join us in the forum.
hashtag: #c4mrome

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Sunday, May 5th, 2013 and is filed under arduino, events, MakerFaire.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Here’s a couple of videos from the Tour! Follow the camper on Twitter with the hashtag #makertour:

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Friday, May 3rd, 2013 and is filed under events, MakerFaire.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Last february we announced the official dates of  MakerFaire Rome – The European Edition – taking place next October and finally, also released  the Call for Makers to invite tinkerers to enter projects and take part to this event celebrating the makers’ revolution in Italy.

Non we’d like  to start exchanging ideas and presenting you some of the protagonists that’s why we are organizing a series of Hangouts OnAir, to inspire and be inspired by some of our friends who are going to participate.
The first hangout is planned for next monday 22nd of april h.8pm CET – Massimo Banzi will be the moderator and his guests are:

Join us on googleplus and see you on monday! (the hangout on-air video will be embedded in this post)

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Friday, April 19th, 2013 and is filed under events.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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If you happen to come to Milano this week the city is hosting a lot of events  organized in different locations for the 6-day Salone del Mobile dedicated mainly to furniture design but offering a lot of other initiatives taking place around 4 main areas like: the fair, Zona Tortona, VenturaLambrate and Brera.

In the last couple of years some events related to the makers’ culture have started to pop-up during the Salone and we have something coming up too!

Officine Arduino will be at Salone Satellite  (created in 1998 for the express purpose of bringing together  young designers under 35  and this 15th edition is putting the focus to ‘Design Technology’) with an installation called La Bottega Digitale where workshops, meetings and exhibition of 5 projects will show to visitors the digital-fabrication approach to design. Here you can check the agenda and book your participation.

This is one of the new projects you’ll find when visiting us at the fair, it’s called Spruzzo, an open source sprouter based on shared knowledge:

Right near Zona Tortona also we co-organized with some friends We Make Open-Design, an event all focused on open-design. It’s going to exhibit 6 projects which have codes and schemes released on the web, made mostly with digital fabrication techniques , just like OpenMirror by DigitalHabits. (3 of the projects will be presented during Popupmakers Speciale Salone )

During the week will be offering free workshops on 3dprinting, Arduino Tinkerkit and Cut&Fold design. The week will end on Sunday with a final event dedicated to Makerfaire Rome. You are invited to join us for a brunch with Massimo Banzi, Giorgio Olivero and Alessandro Masserdotti to  chat around open design approaches and the makers’ revolution (check the eventbrite page to book your ticket). Stay Tuned!

This entry was postedby Zoe Romano on Monday, April 8th, 2013 and is filed under arduino, events, Exhibition.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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