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03/28/17
Have you ever wondered how far we can customize the wheels to satisfy customer needs? We too, because apparently this limit is not yet well defined...
Lately there had been asked for wheels which could support considerable weight and significant mechanical stress, so we decided to test a new material, much stronger than PLA that we usually use! This material is nylon reinforced with carbon fiber and, in addition of making much stronger prints, it makes them lighter by about 20% too. They also have advantages on the wear of parts and high temperature resistance.
Here you can find some photos of 3D printed wheels with this material: link.
Unfortunately, this material is more expensive and difficult to print than the material that we usually use, so the price of the wheels made with this material is the double of the price listed in the catalog: link.
Soon new models of wheels, that you see now only in development, will be available... Stay tuned!
Anyway, if you need more info or advices, please contact us!
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12/08/16
It was a while that we didn't update the contents on the website, but finally we had time to do it. This website has been developed especially for mobile devices, in fact, recently the mobile accesses exceeded the ones by computer.
Among the main innovations there is the new blog section where we have combined the old sections called "projects", "news" and "gallery". You can also notice some changes in the products page, you will find new designs and models for all needs.
Let us know if you like the new design or if you notice errors and bugs, thank you!
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10/30/15
In the previous news we explained how we would not have participated in fairs and events which could have kept us too busy and, in fact, in the last month we declined 5 invitations. However, we didn't refuse the one from Confartigianato of Udine because they were very interested in us and therefore we will show our products to Udine3D Forum. We are very grateful for this opportunity offered to us and we hope to meet many interesting and interested people.
In those days there is also the last race of MotoGP with Valentino Rossi in the battle for the tenth world championship.
Since we are his fans we could not miss to take the opportunity to create something that would combine these two events and so we designed these gadgets with the number 46! The design is open source and can be found here. Note that it is 46mm wide and 4.6mm thick because nothing is left to chance!
One final note, probably our booth will be a bit less active during the race, as already happened at TEDx Vicenza when they were racing in Assen and when Rossi won in the last chicane against Marquez... We hope this is a good omen! #ForzaVale
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09/15/15
As said in the title, this year we will not be in Rome because some things changed in the last period and we evaluated that at the moment for us it is more important to have financial certainties than investing in fairs and events that don't bring great results.
In past years we participated in many important, beautiful and fun exhibitions, but we have noticed that rarely there is a great return in terms of work.
So we believe it is appropriate to take some distance from the world of "makers" and to start to get serious. In fact, in recent times we have noticed more and more that this world is composed of many elements that only speak.
So, "poche ciacoe e lavorare"! (#TalkLessDoMore)
The important and serious works are not lacking and then we continue on that road.
At the moment our priorities are: first finishing university studies, then carrying on the good work that we are doing with SpringLab, also collaborating on the creation of the FabLab Vicenza and maybe we also have a few more projects to be defined.
This is our program of growth, what do you think about it?
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06/19/15
On the 27th of June TEDx Vicenza will be held in one of the most important places of our city: the Teatro Olimpico.
For all the people who couldn't get the ticket, the organizers in collaboration with Confartigianato Vicenza, prepared a space in the loggias of Palazzo Chiericati where you will be able to follow the event via live stream.
We will be there to show our products and our activities.
See you there!
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05/05/15
Let's pick up where we left off, which is the Ferrara Drone Show, and we think that it was a nice event, without a lot of visitors but all interested. In the picture you can see Chris Anderson, the CEO of 3DR, with the farmer drone. Chris Anderson seemed very interested about the project and he spoke well about it in his review of the exhibition, publishing also this video.
The interesting participation at Ferrara Drone Show made us know a bit better the world of drones and made us make "friends" with ENAC. We discovered that, as in other sectors that we are in contact with, it's full of talks and few actions. Since we prefer the philosophy "Poche c iacole e lavorare" we created a Tumblr blog where we joke about these things.
Let's close the parenthesis about drones to tell you about the next events we will participate: like last year will participate at the Trieste Mini Maker Faire, which this year will be held on 9 and 10 May. Also like last year we will participate at RoboVal, which in this edition will be held on 23 and 24 May in Verona.
In these days there are the registrations to next Maker Faire Rome, usually when there is a "call for makers" we are always among the firsts to answer, but this time we have some doubts because of the bad experience of the previous edition, what do you suggest?
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03/22/15
After a long period in which we were very busy with university exams and with various projects, finally we found the time to update the news on our website.
Let's start by saying that in latest months we worked on some projects that we will present at Ferrara Drone Show on the 28th and 29th of March.
We have developed an electronic system to precisely control the release, by the drone, of special ovules containing numerous eggs of an insect used in the treatment against the European corn borer.
In addition, we have developed a safety system with parachutes for drones. This device was developed to save the drone and, mainly, the people who are nearby considering all the possible problems that can happen during the flight. In fact, the system works automatically and independently from the rest of the drone, with the purpose of expelling the parachute when it detects a problem or when the pilot is the same to request it.
In this video you can see two tests done in which the parachute is ejected simulating a damage to a motor and via a radio command.
In latest months we also worked with SpringLab for the development of a wearable safety system for motorcyclists. The project is going well, but for obvious reasons we can't tell you much.
A news worthy of note is the fact that now we have doubled our 3D printers. In fact, a few weeks ago we built another Prusa i3.
Moreover, about 3D printers, we have started a collaboration with our friends of Lumi Industries, a StartUp which is at H-Farm that develops DLP printers that can achieve a level of accuracy far greater than our FDM. Despite that their printers do not cost much more than the most common printers with filament.
P.S.
This year we won't celebrate the Arduino Day, considering that we haven't been able to get their T-shirt as gift yet, it's the least we can do.
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10/06/14
After a long period of exhibitions which made us turn to half the peninsula, it is time for Vicenza Thunders to take a long break to develop new projects, not before, however, of the 25th of October when you can find us in Torri di Quartesolo at the Linux day. This could be the last event that we'll participate at (or maybe no!). In doubt, come to visit us anyway!
Fixed this appointment, we would like to sum up about the most awaited event by all the European makers which brought us to our capital: the Maker Faire Rome, which was held at the Auditorium Parco Della Musica this year, unlike last year. The Maker Faire brought to Rome a huge amount of exhibitors and visitors to try to make Europe know the latest innovations in the field of crafts and to make public understand how maker movement could revolutionize the economy.
From our point of view (and also of many other exhibitors), however, this event wasn't exactly what we expected. In fact, we noticed that, in general, compared to the last year, the organization was much more superficial and coarse.
First things first: as soon as we arrived in Rome, we immediately rushed to the Auditorium Parco della Musica because we had set up our booth before 7pm, but we were stunned when we saw the conditions of the space devoted to us and to other twenty makers (Photo). The tent I, reserved to robots and drones, still had to end up being mounted well, besides being flooded and without electricity (it's not a news that water and electricity do not really get along). Moreover, there were many water leaks from the ceiling, which inevitably fell over the booths. This thing should be avoided in an exhibition of this caliber, which shows mainly electronic products that may be damaged by water.
In the following days the situation did not improve very much: the carpet and the tent luckily dried, cause of the very sultry climate, but at this point the tent became a real oven because it was not planned any way to make the air circulate. So we exhibitors had to lift the sides of the tent.
In addition to this, in the space in front of our booth, the floor was badly mounted and there was a sinking which made visitors stumble and that caused shock on the tables of exhibitors, not allowing us to use our 3D printer.
Surely in an innovation fair you would expect that the WiFi has worked, no? Exactly: the answer is no! Only during the last day it worked for a bit, while on the other days, in our area, you could not even login.
As icing on the cake, we noticed that some booths didn't have the nameplate indicating the name of the project (including ours because nothing went well for us). Luckily our Riccardo in the afternoon of the first day of exposure, found these nameplates in a corner of the tent (Photo).
Let's talk about organization: in the tent of robots and drones, there were some robots (including ours) and some drones: the rest of the booths were dedicated to other projects, very interesting, but not linked to the topic of the tent (photography, hand-made masks of superheroes, gadgets lights etc.). This contributed to confuse visitors, who perhaps wanted to see what are commonly called drones, such as the multicopters. In addition to this, often people could not orient themselves and asked where to find some booths. Many visitors made us notice this fact and they told us that they had the feeling of not having visited all the fair.
We also noticed that there was no real route to follow to make people visit all the booths, but they gave more visibility to the sponsors putting aside makers, last year was not like that, maybe also because the place was best suited to host an event like this. Everybody could notice, in fact, that in the amphitheater and in the booths near the entrance, visitors were many more than in our area in the garden upstairs. In particular, this inequality of treatment hugely disappointed us because we are two university students of engineering and we have invested a lot in this trip to Rome. It seemed almost a lack of respect for all our works and sacrifices (and also those of other makers).
The thing that has demoralized us more, however, was the theft of the medal that we won at the RoboCup Jr 2012 (Photo). For us it had such a great value because it reminded us of how, after a hard work, we could win and become champions of Italy. Since our "great friends" of ITIS A. Rossi lost the cup that was given us with the medals, now to witness that event only remain another medal and a few photos.
Despite everything we have known many people with interesting products, we have received many ideas for new projects and at least one satisfaction has come: we won the contest organized by Codemotion, which has rewarded us with its gadgets, an interview on its YouTube channel and the official Maker Faire pennant (Photo).
Said that, we hope that our misadventures at Maker Faire will be useful to the organizers to figure out what went wrong and to improve the event for the next edition. To prove this, we wrote directly to the organizers who said they will consider our suggestions.
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09/15/14
MTV Digital Days ended on Saturday: it was such a beautiful event (in a fantastic location!) and we're very happy to have participated! We're very thankful to MTV Italia and to the organizers of the MTV Digital Days, especially Federica and Domenico, for the great opportunity that they gave us!
On Sunday September 21 at 10pm on the "MTV Music" channel will go on the air a special program presented by Noemi and maybe there will be an interview to us. (Video)
On the same Sunday, we'll be in Camisano Vicentino where we'll show our projects during the event Fiesta Mondo. We suggest to all the people who live in the province of Vicenza and who have followed us only on internet until now, not to miss the opportunity to meet us, it doesn't happen often that we participate at events in our area.
After spending two consecutive weekends between Turin and Camisano Vicentino, the third one to recharge the batteries because the next week, from the 3rd to the 5th of October, we'll be in Rome for the most awaited event by all European Makers: the Maker Faire! Like last year, this year we were selected to participate at this fair which doesn't need any introduction, so we expect even more people than last year (more than 30,000) at this event. Don't miss it!
Our marathon of events will end with the Linux Day on the 25th of October, in fact, even this year we were invited to this event dedicated to open source. Last year we participated at the event organized by the LUG of Dueville, while this year we'll be at the event organized by the LUG of Vicenza and which will be in Torri di Quartesolo. So if you live near there you really can't miss what will probably be the last event of 2014 that we will participate at and, who knows, maybe even the last event ever?
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08/11/14
We wait for you at the MTV Digital Days that will be on the 12th and on the 13th of September at the Palace of Venaria (Turin) and where we will be guests in the Innovation Village.
Since entrance is free, you have no excuse not to come and visit us in the huge spaces of Citroniera Juvariana in the Palace of Venaria on Friday and on Saturday from 3 pm to 7 pm.
We are very thankful to the organizers for inviting us to such an interesting and important event!
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04/11/14
Our upcoming events are the Mini Maker Faire Trieste, that will be on May 17, and the RoboVal that will be on May 25 at Grezzana (VR). See you there!
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03/08/14
We will take part at the Arduino day at The Urban Reef on the 29th of March. You can find more info and details about this event here.
Then we will be at Robot & Makers Milano Show on the 30th of March. You can find more info and details about this event here.
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12/20/13
Siamo molto grati al comune di Camisano Vicentino per averci dato questo premio speciale. Hanno voluto premiarci perché siamo giovani e stiamo lavorando su nuove tecnologie: con questo premio loro hanno voluto augurarci di continuare a crescere e di iniziare una bella carriera.
Questo è molto importante per noi perché ci da grandi motivazioni a continuare a lavorare duramente nei nostri progetti nelle nostre idee e nei nostri sogni. (Per visualizzare il riconoscimento ricevuto, cliccare qui.)