This past weekend, the Mbed community in Japan held the first community gathering of the year, locally known as 'エンベッド祭り', or Mbed Fest. It is a quarterly celebration for the community that highlights local partners, companies and individuals using Mbed. The projects ranged from running JavaScript Node-RED flows on Mbed Enabled devices to selfie cameras built with thermal printer shields. For full coverage and a video of the event, read on below.

On Twitter, the event used the #mbed_fest hashtag, and you can find a summary of all tweets.

You can find the YouTube livestream of the event below.

The Mbed Fest executive committee organized the event.
Sponsors (in no particular order):

• Arm Japan.
• Fuji Electronics Co..
• Junichi Katsu of Uhuru Corporation.
• NADA Electronics.
• NXP Semiconductor Japan.
• Renesas Electronics Corporation.
• ROHM.
• Running electronics.
• Seeed Studio Japan.
• STMicroelectronics Japan.
• Switch Science.

A big thanks to all the sponsors for providing give-aways, prizes and development kits for Mbed Fest!

Presentations

Community projects

The community in Japan had a strong showing with a wide range of projects that ranged from professional deployments to research focused projects to those that were just for fun.

Lighting talks

In addition to formal scheduled presentations, we also had a series of 5-minute lightning talks that were open to the community to discuss their ongoing or upcoming projects. The theme this time was open ended.

Workshops

For users who are new to Mbed, we also ran an Intro to Mbed workshop during Mbed Fest and had great turnout from a wide range of professionals. Big thanks to Katsuo san from Uhuru for running this workshop.

Group photo

At the end of the event, we took a photo with everyone.

Next event

Scheduling is tentative for the next Mbed Fest, but it should happen some time this summer in Japan. To keep up to date, follow the event on twitter .

A big thanks to all the partners, sponsors and community members who helped make this event possible and came out. We look forward to seeing everyone at the next event.