Maker Faire Rome, 23–25 October 2026, is one of Europe’s biggest celebrations of invention, bringing together students, makers and engineers who want to build things that work. Anders will be there alongside ST Microelectronics, with one clear aim: helping the engineers of the future turn ideas into real, working interfaces.
As an ST Authorized Partner, we’re providing DRAGONEYE™-G0 kits for the workshop Graphic User Interfaces with DRAGONEYE-G0 and TouchGFX Designer taking place at the event. Rather than working in simulation, participants will design graphical interfaces and run them on real STM32-based display hardware, following the same workflow used by professional embedded engineers. For many, it will be their first experience of taking a user interface from concept to a working screen, and they’ll leave with practical skills they can apply to their own projects.
DRAGONEYE™ Development Platforms
That is exactly what DRAGONEYE™ is designed for. As a development platform, it brings together a display and an STM32 microcontroller in a compact, ready-to-use package, so engineers can focus on the interface and application rather than building hardware from scratch. It gives students, makers and design teams a straightforward path from first prototype to finished product. Our wider DRAGONEYE™ range will be on display with the ST booths throughout the show, and our team will be on hand to talk through the platform, answer questions and discuss how it could support your next project.
Visitors will also be able to see what a student team has already achieved with DRAGONEYE™. When a robotics team at the University of Ljubljana wanted a better way for players to control a robot chess game, they approached Anders. The result is RoboChess: an electronic chessboard, a uFactory xArm6 collaborative robot and a human opponent, with DRAGONEYE™ selected as the game controller.
The 2.1-inch DRAGONEYE™, built around an STM32 microcontroller, with its circular display and rotary control, proved a natural fit. Players make their selections at the table, then keep their focus on the board as the robot moves the pieces. They can face Stockfish, with an adjustable playing strength, or challenge VidmarAI, an AI model trained to reflect the playing style of Professor Dr Milan Vidmar, the electrical engineer who became Slovenia’s first chess grandmaster. The result shows how an interface can shape the experience of an entire system, even when the robot is the most visible part. RoboChess will be showcased on the ST Microelectronics booth, and you can see it in action in the video.
We’re proud to have supported Sebastian Šlajpah, Assistant Professor at the Laboratory of Robotics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, and Ivan Reshkov, the Masters student developing the robotic cell for his thesis. Projects like RoboChess, and workshops like ST’s, show what young engineers can achieve with the right tools, and we’re delighted to play a part in that.
If you’re at Maker Faire Rome, come and find us with ST Microelectronics. We’d love to hear what you’re building.
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