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Maker Faire

Maker Faire 2026

From Maker Faire Bay Area to Maker Faire Rome, we were proud to celebrate the creativity, curiosity and innovation that bring makers and engineers together. Through hands-on demonstrations, interactive projects and engaging experiences, we showcased how our technologies empower the next generation of innovators. We’re also proud to support students and educators through our Academic Program, providing resources and opportunities to inspire future engineers and bring ideas to life.

The excitement doesn’t end here. We’re proud to support students and educators through our Academic Program, providing resources and opportunities to inspire future engineers and bring ideas to life. Discover how we can continue your maker journey with us.

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Maker Faire Bay Area 2026

September 25–27, 2026

See how we brought creativity and technology together at Maker Faire Bay Area’s twentieth-anniversary celebration with some of our most interactive demonstrations yet. Attendees tested their skills with our motor-controlled claw machine, played retro arcade games built with our PyKit Explorer and tuned a balancing robot using Bluetooth® LE—all while exploring how our easy-to-use development tools and technologies help turn creative ideas into working designs.

Maker Faire Rome 2026

October 23–25, 2026

From the excitement of slot car racers to the advanced capabilities of face recognition with liveness detection, we demonstrated how embedded technology brings creative ideas to life. Through engaging demonstrations and interactive experiences, we continue to support the next generation of engineers and innovators around the world.

Maker Creations

Our PyKit Explorer's capacitive touch inputs turn vegetables into instruments. Tap the carrot piano keys or work the potato drums to trigger notes through the on-board audio amplifier. Play the synthesizer by tilting the ruler left and right to sweep through pitches, forward and back to ride the volume and wave your hand over the proximity sensor to bend notes in real time. This band of conductive vegetables eliminates traditional controllers, rather utilizing a 9-DoF IMU and a gesture sensor doing what embedded engineers do best: turning hardware into something people can't resist.

See real-time control and sensing in action with a self-balancing robot powered by Zephyr® RTOS on PIC32 and SAM microcontrollers. Using onboard inertial sensors and advanced control algorithms, the robot continuously adjusts its position to maintain stability on two wheels. This demo highlights how our embedded solutions enable responsive, deterministic control for robotics, automation and intelligent edge applications.

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