Corrado doggiis Managing Director of Irish based start-up Creo 3D Printers and he attended the Maker Faire Rome event this past weekend. His dispatch from the heart of Italy, is here for 3DPI’s readers …
Rome has possibly never looked as beautiful as it did last week when I landed, since the glorious days of the Roman Empire, thanks to all the work done in recent years. The size of the Colosseum, the Pantheon and Vittoriano are intimidating — as were the numbers relating to “Maker Faire – The European Edition”, which the mother of all cities hosted from the 3rd to the 6th of October at the “Palazzo dei Congressi”
在8000平方米的展览空间中，该空间为200多名参展商提供了临时住所，他们向20,000名游客展示了许多不同的“制作”活动，Maker Faire Rome超出了所有期望。个人和公司都在场，与12岁的公司首席执行官一起，我不骗您 - 由Quin Etnyre（Quin Etnyre）拟人，他去年11岁时创立了他的公司QTechKnow，以促进他的Ardusensors。他还是Hackerspace教程巡回赛的常客。
周四，在开幕式上，上个月在纽约的世界制造商Faire上，Arduino的父亲Massimo Banzi提到的重大新闻被全面揭示。在Maker Faire的创始人Dale Dougherty与英特尔首席执行官Brian Krzanich一起宣布了两个组织与新伽利略董事会开发方面的合作。从“大玩家”到制造商社区迈出的一大步。
就3D打印活动而言 - 我听到了很多关于由Stratasys收购Makerbot的讨论，这是一位大型玩家花了任何经济学家计算的可令人难以置信的钱……。4.5亿！对交易的反应往往混合在一起，有些渴望看到Makerbot与主要支持者一起去哪里，而其他人则感到被公司卖光了。
Ultimaker出席了做great to see their newborn “Ultimaker 2“ featuring a neater look with upgraded solutions that includes much faster but quieter printing. Not that it was easy to tell with the noisy crowds.
CRP, the Italian-based 3D printing materials and service company was there and presented its electric 3D printed racing bike — this attracted lot of attention from the crowd. Me included.
罗马的事件也是费尔的发射台aMaker device for easy recycling of 3D printing filament material. Designed by Marek Senický, who had a fully working prototype on show at the event, the FilaMaker produces 3 mm filament which has been tested, and successfully proven, on an Ultimaker 3D printer. Marek is hoping to have a first batch production ready by the end of the year, if all goes well, and sell the Filamaker for around €500.
Robots were also prominent at Maker Faire Rome, as you can see from these pictures I took:
[nggallery ID = 108]The sheer number of visitors was unbelievable, considering everyone had to queue under the rainy Saturday sky to get into the Faire, you could really feel the excitement in the air when people were seeing and touching 3D printers or 3D printed objects for the first time ever.
该活动给人带来了3D印刷界的整体感觉，在未来几年内发展了不断发展。每天的人们开始注意到发生了什么并引起人们的兴趣。毫无疑问……这确实是未来。
As an entrepreneur in this field, being there for the announcement by Massimo Banzi and Intel was a serious “wow” moment for me. It felt like the beginning of the snowball effect for a movement that’s beginning to gather real momentum.
