The Maker Faire Bay Area is celebrating 10 years of making! The weekend is starting  and we’ll be there celebrating t0o. We invite makers, artists, designers, teachers, educators and passionate DIYers to visit our team at the Arduino booth (#2223) right next to Atmel! We’ll be showcasing cool demos of Arduino Create, Arduino Materia 101, Arduino at Heart Primo and you’ll be able to have a close look to some of the new boards like Arduino Gemma.

On Saturday at 12:30PM  Massimo Banzi will be on the Center Stage for his traditional keynote on the State of Arduino. You are welcome to attend and learn about the latest developments in Arduino open-source microcontroller ecosystem.

If you are coming with kids, don’t miss Teach Physical computing to kids workshop, with sessions running the whole weekend!

On Saturday and Sunday May 2nd and 3rd  we are travelling to France for Maker Faire Paris!  You can find us in the Intel booth with demos  around Arduino Uno, Zero, Yún and Casa Jasmina. We’ll also showcase some projects and tutorials made with Arduino Certified Intel Galileo Gen2 and Edison!

This edition will be held in Pavilion 6 of the exhibition center at Porte de Versailles. Come and  share your ideas and open source projects with us and discover how many cool things you can do with Arduino!

Last year Maker Faire Rome welcomed 600 projects, 200 performances, 90.000 visitors coming from all over the world.  Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition recently announced its third edition scheduled from the 16th to the 18th of October 2015 and will take place at  “La Sapienza” University in Rome, exceptionally “closed” for three days to host this international event.

The Curators of the Faire, Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino and Riccardo Luna, italian Digital Champion, are inviting makers of all kinds and ages to showcase their amazing work and embrace the do-it-yourself (or do-it-together) spirit with a great and appreciative audience.

Are you a Maker, an Innovator, a digital Craftsman? The MakerFaireRome’s Call4Makers is out!

There are many ways to participate:

• you can exhibit your project: we’ll give you a booth with table and chairs inside the halls, which will be filled with visitors who are curious and interested in meeting you
• you can give a presentation in public: we’ll give you a room or a stage where you can talk about your project or tell your story or deal with the issues that you want to propose
• you can hold a workshop: we’ll give you a workshop area where you can do interactive demonstrations and engage participants -adults and / or children- in practical activities
• you can perform in public: we’ll give you a space or a stage for you to perform in your creative, technological, robotic, musical, pyrotechnic performance…

The proposals regarding the exposure of projects, if accepted, will lead to the allocation of a booth, free of charge. Presence is required at this booth while Maker Faire Rome 2015 is open to the public (three days). It will also be possible to sell products or gadgets.

Accepted projects will be valorized on the MakerFaire Rome website. Besides, Maker Faire Rome press & media team will diffuse info about participants to the newspapers, radio and television stations, which in the past years have devoted a lot of attention to the projects and performers.

We expect creative, innovative, fun, interactive projects, showing the process by which the achievements enrich visitors, communicating passion and ingenuity.

Are you thinking about participanting? In the meanwhile:

• spread the word! #MFR15
• help us to involve all the makers you know (and especially those who still do not know they are makers!)
• subscribe to our newsletter to keep informed about news, events and discounts!

We are looking forward to seeing you all in Rome in October!

Maker Faire Rome video interviews – “What have you built with Arduino?” – A couple of new protagonists for our short series:

• Bee Uno – Arduino-controlled DJ midi controller, interview with the makers
  

• ITIS-LS – F. Giordani students’ quad ambient controller

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Maker Faire Rome video interviews – “What have you built with Arduino?” – A couple of new protagonists for our short series:

• Soluppgång (Lampada Solare) – Interactive Sunlight Lamp, university project

• Fablab Torino – Interview with Fabrizio Garda, the latest projects created at Fablab Torino

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Maker Faire Rome video interviews – “What have you built with Arduino?” – A couple of new protagonists for our short series:

• Collective City Memory – Wearable Arduino Tech, university project by Assunta Matassa
• Insettoteca – Remote-controlled Terrarium by Hacklab Terni

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Maker Faire Rome video interviews – “What have you built with Arduino?” – A couple of new protagonists for our short series:

• Zaho – Print your own megastructure – Controlled by Arduino
• Eco Floppy Robot – Robot controlled by Arduino

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Maker Faire Rome video interviews – “What have you built with Arduino?” – A couple of new protagonists for our short series:

• Biopic Agriorto – Agricultural Plantation using Irduino / Arduino

• UniRoma 2 – Interview with automation engineering students using Arduino Due

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Maker Faire Rome video interviews – “What have you built with Arduino?” – A couple of new protagonists for our short series:

• Arduino controlled Exo-Skeleton – Interview with Mel Li (Ph. D) about her latest project
  
• Vertical Automatic Garden – Automatic garden controlled by Arduino
  

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Maker Faire Rome video interviews – “What have you built with Arduino?” – A couple of new protagonists for our short series:

• MegaBreadboard – an  educational tool for easy Arduino learning

• Qtechknow –  Quin Etnyre and his new line of maker products