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DigiKey returns to Maker Faire Rome 2026 as a Gold partner, showing off robotics platforms, edge AI boards and hands-on demos at booth N.01 from 23 to 25 October. The post DigiKey at Maker Faire Rome 2026: robotics, edge AI and makers appeared first on Open E…
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DigiKey, a global leader in the distribution of electronic components and automation products, will present new innovative products and successful projects at its booth N.01 during Maker Faire Rome, from 23 to 25 October 2026. DigiKey is a Gold partner of the event, which brings together hundreds of makers from around the world to share their projects with the public.
“DigiKey’s presence at Maker Faire Rome 2026 reflects our commitment to providing makers, students, teachers and professional engineers with accessible technologies, technical training and hands-on innovation,” said Kevin Walseth, Senior Manager, Technical Marketing for DigiKey. “The event lets us connect directly with attendees, showcase supplier technologies in real applications and strengthen relationships within the maker community.”
Demos and more at the DigiKey booth
DigiKey experts will present new and successful products and projects, such as:
- Sparkfun’s XRP, an experiential robotics platform designed to make learning robotics accessible to everyone
- An XRP robot controlled through a home automation assistant
- AgXRP, a modular kit for agricultural automation designed to combine robotics, sensors and real farming technologies
- Adafruit’s NeoTrellis, a PCB with an elastomer button kit and full-color NeoPixel support
- Arduino’s UNO Q, a microcontroller and single-board computer development board, and VENTUNO Q, an edge AI computer
- Synaptics’ Coralboard, an edge AI board based on Synaptics’ Astra compute technology and Google’s Coral NPU
- DFRobot’s LattePanda and UNIHIKER single-board computers, and HUSKYLENS 2, an AI vision sensor
- A virtual sand demo using an LED matrix and Adafruit’s Matrix Portal
- A self-balancing robot from M5Stack
- Kitronik will have its Mai-Z robots on display, along with a soccer pitch where attendees can face off playing robot soccer
Visitors who stop by the DigiKey booth will also have the chance to take home a DigiKey bag and other DigiKey-branded gadgets.
Now in its fourteenth edition, Maker Faire Rome is an event that facilitates and tells the story of technological innovation in a simple and accessible way, connecting companies, universities, people and ideas. Over the past 13 years, the event has attracted almost 900,000 visitors and has showcased more than 8,000 projects.
For more information about the DigiKey maker community, visit the Maker.io page on the DigiKey website.