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Maker Faire

Maker Faire 2025

Get inspired by the energy and ingenuity of makers worldwide at Maker Faire Bay Area and Maker Faire Rome. Watch the highlight reel and see how our technology fuels creativity—from robotics and IoT to wearables and smart devices. Are you ready to build what’s next? Explore projects, connect with our experts and discover how we can power your next big idea.

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Maker Faire Bay Area 2025

September 26–28, 2025

Experience hands-on innovation at Maker Faire Bay Area 2025 in Coal Shed 3, where you’ll explore interactive demos like our motor-controlled claw machine, IoT sensors, long-range Bluetooth® and kid-friendly Blipblox® synthesizers. Discover how our cutting-edge technology can power your next big idea. 

Maker Faire Rome 2025

October 17–19, 2025

Meet our experts, get inspired by live builds and unlock new possibilities for your next creation at Maker Faire Rome 2025. Check out our cutting-edge demos and talk to our makers about how our easy-to-use microcontrollers (MCUs) and tools can bring your maker projects to life. 

Maker Creations

Project Description
Claw Machine Dive into the heart of engineering as you maneuver the claw machine, which uses our touch and motor control microcontrollers (MCUs). Unravel the secrets behind the magic of modern technology.
Inverted Pendulum Demo This demo showcases a balancing arm using our Configurable Logic Block (CLB) peripheral.
IoT Sensors This demo showcases a collection of IoT sensor platforms that cover air quality and soil health using either long-range Bluetooth® technology or LTE-M cell connections to the cloud.
Long-Range Bluetooth Experience extended wireless connectivity with our latest RNDB350 evaluation board. See how long-range Bluetooth technology can enhance your applications with reliable, low-power communication—excellent for IoT, smart home and industrial designs.
CircuitPython® Nano and PyKit Ruler  Our demo board, which runs CircuitPython, features our Arm® Cortex®-M4-based SAME51 and an RNDB451 Bluetooth module and offers quick and easy development. It is paired with a 12” ruler that provides a display and some additional user buttons.
LAN8651 Demo This Arduino®-based demo uses the new Arduino UNO SPE Shield, which is based on the LAN8651 Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) device. It uses SPE to transmit environmental data between two demo systems.
Blipblox® Musical Synthesizer Discover the joy of music with Blipblox, Playtime Engineering's music synthesizer that is crafted just for kids. Dive into a world of interactive melodies and hands-on fun, igniting creativity and musical exploration.

MakerZone Webinar Series

Our MakerZone webinar series focuses on the Maker community and covers the projects, resources and product portfolios we offer to support this vibrant and creative group. The sessions cover topics such as our evaluation boards, Arduino® support in our microcontroller (MCU) development ecosystems and other subjects of interest for Makers everywhere. Watch the series on-demand for access to cool Maker content and live audience Q&A.

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MakerZone Gatherings

Gathering #1: Series Kick-Off

In the first gathering, Bob Martin introduced the resources that we offer to the maker community and the strategy changes he has noticed in the maker space over the past few years, especially in the area of microcontroller (MCU) evaluation boards and the hardware and software ecosystems around them. Bob also introduced the new family of AVR® MCU devices and some of the new features of these parts.

Gathering #2: Maker Space Hardware Part 1

Gathering #2 began with a quick rundown of the more popular Arduino® and Arduino-compatible boards and the upgrades and functional trends that have appeared over the past few years. Bob then moved on to the Curiosity Nano platforms and how they fit in the maker space with direct Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE) support.

Gathering #3: Maker Space Software Part 1

Gathering #3 introduced the Arduino® IDE 2.0. Bob dove directly into the Arduino support packages for our Curiosity Nano boards and the Arduino sketch import functionality available in Microchip Studio and MPLAB® X IDE. Importing sketches into formal C++ projects opens up a whole new world of debugging power.

Gathering #4: Maker Space Hardware Part 2

Gathering #4 picked up from where Bob left off in Gathering #2, introducing the mini cellular IoT board, our first board specifically targeted for the maker space.