Digi-Key to Highlight Maker to Market Offerings and Announce Start-Up Contest Winners at Maker Faire Rome – the European Edition 4.0

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota, USA - October 10, 2016

During Maker Faire Rome October 14-16, Digi-Key Electronics, a global electronic components distributor, and it’s maker tool, Maker.io will be exhibiting the latest technologies from maker-friendly suppliers such as Adafruit, SparkFun, SEEED Studios, and Mikroelektronika. Attendees are encouraged to come learn about the company’s free online design tools and have an opportunity to win a complete electronics lab including an oscilloscope, function generator, bench power supply, soldering station, and much more.

"Being at Maker Faire Rome is inspiring for Digi-Key," said Vincenzo Purgatorio, Sales Director, South Europe and North Africa. "We think it is so important for students and makers of all ages to be involved in creating the technology of tomorrow and want to support them with a variety of tools and resources. We support emerging markets and expect to meet the newest innovators at Maker Faire that are going to change our world."

Digi-Key is proud to not only be exhibiting but will be announcing the winners of the Start-Up Contest. The contest, created in conjunction with Selezione di Elettronica and with sponsors Axel Elettronica, Cistelaier, Linear Technology, Link Engineering and Superpartes, offers a grand prize of 75.000 Euros to help the winning Maker take their solution to Market.

In addition to Maker.io, Digi-Key will also be highlighting the following items:

  • Adafruit Circuit Playground – Come see the latest creation from Ladyada. The Circuit Playground is an ideal sensor-based solution to help young and future engineers learn how to bring designs and ideas to life. It includes a motion, light, sound, and temperature sensor, speaker/buzzer, 10 neo-pixel LEDs, and can be programmed via the Arduino IDE.
  • SparkFun Sparcade – Test your skills on this Intel Edison-based game that functions similarly to the classic arcade platform Tempest.
  • Beaglebone Green Wireless Blinds – See how easy it is to create your own temperature and light sensitive window blinds.
  • Initial State live data streaming, aggregation and visualization – Come see the latest solution for sensor-based IoT designs
  • Digi-Key tools and resources – Interact with some of the best tools available to help take your designs from concept through to production. Learn about Maker.io and its vision to bring solutions from Maker to Market. Interact with Scheme-it, an ideation tool available that allows designers to get their concepts started in an easy-to-use graphical format.
  • Much, much, more!

About Maker.io

Maker.io is powered by Digi-Key Electronics and provides tools and resources to support maker professionals through the design roadmap from concept through production to marketing, distribution and support. The website also provides leading edge content, projects, videos and blogs from maker-friendly visionaries like Adafruit Industries, SparkFun Electronics and SEEED Studios. Visitors can also upload their private project information to help follow the roadmap and bring their product to life and if they choose they could make their project public and share with the community. All of this can be found at Maker.io.

About Digi-Key Electronics

Digi-Key Electronics, based in Thief River Falls, Minn., is a global, full-service distributor of both prototype/design and production quantities of electronic components, offering more than five million products from over 650 quality name-brand manufacturers and over 1.3 million products in stock and an impressive selection of online resources, like Maker.io. Additional information and access to Digi-Key’s broad product offering is available at www.digikey.com/.