With Maker Faire Rome 2025, we’re moving into the future. Perhaps aboard a Cyberpandino

New mobility will take us into the future

Innovative mobility is an enabling factor in our lives. The transition to a smarter and more sustainable future represents one of the most ambitious challenges of the European Green Deal. If managed wisely, this evolution can significantly improve the quality of life for many people, limiting the generation of new negative externalities linked to fossil fuels and the current transport system. The projects featured at Maker Faire Rome 2025, scheduled for October 17-19 at the Gazometro Ostiense, tell us, and above all, show us, that the future is already here. You can even touch it. You’ll find it in Area L (you can view the map HERE), where we’ve selected some of the leading projects in mobility, smart cities, sustainability, and more.

Full, supply logistics becomes intelligent

M. Savarese, A. De Blasi, C. Zaccagnino, and G. Santangelo are the founders of Pieno, an intelligent system for optimizing fueling for corporate fleets and public transport. The platform is based on predictive and georeferenced logic: the system calculates optimal fueling routes, reducing downtime and waste.

Pieno solves the problem of inefficient refueling by integrating vehicle and public data. Using a hardware module and an app, it reads the fuel level and, with AI and routing algorithms, suggests the best time and place to refuel. Users save time and money, potentially reducing their carbon footprint.

Each vehicle is monitored in real time, and decisions are dynamically adapted to traffic and consumption. The idea originated at the university level, from a group of engineering students in Modena. The project is open source and aims to become a standard for local authorities, businesses, and sustainable urban mobility.

Find me

Alessandra De Vitis and Achille De Santis are bringing Find me to Maker Faire Rome 2025, a system for finding your car in large parking lots, especially at night, without the need for a cell phone, internet, or GPS signal. It works even with a dead phone battery and a malfunctioning car remote control.

The project consists of two parts: a transmitter system equipped with a recognition code; and a small receiving system equipped with the same recognition code, which, upon receipt, switches on the LED lights. This protects the system from interference and prevents false activations of the LED strip.

Gfg101 – DIY light electric vehicle

Guillermo Fernandez, François Garcin, and Guillaume Tartayre are the creators of the Gfg101 project, a DIY light electric vehicle developed by the French team Vadzaih Expéditions. It represents a handcrafted and sustainable approach to personal electric mobility.

Cyberpandino

Cyberpandino is a 2003 Fiat Panda transformed into a technological expedition vehicle to tackle the Mongol Rally 2025: over 13 countries across deserts, mountains, and steppes. Equipped with touchscreen infotainment, artificial intelligence, sensors, a reinforced chassis, and 3D-printed components, it uniquely blends vintage and innovation. At Maker Faire Rome 2025, we’re showcasing the evolution of a car that was born simple, now ready for an impossible journey of adventure, ingenuity, and technology.