Inventors and makers from the city and elsewhere will bring their creations out on October 23 at the second edition of "Mini Maker Faire."
Organised by Workbench Projects and hosted by the BMRCL, the fair on the MG Road Boulevard will have tech enthusiasts, tinkerers, hobbyists, engineers and artists showcasing their projects and talking about them.
Applications were invited for participation, and from the 165 they received, 50 were shortlisted. "The projects are from diverse fields like robotics, Internet of things, homegrown do-it-yourself projects and even artists," said Pavan Kumar, CEO of Workbench Projects. The idea behind the fair, which saw a footfall of 1,500 in its first edition, is to promote inventing.
One cannot be too young or too old to tinker with tools, as these two entrants from the city have shown.
Nihar Thakkar, 11, will be showcasing a uno-wheel he made with help from his maker parents. Retired DRDO scientist, Ajoy Raman, has built an oscilloscope the size of a matchbox, used to monitor a patient's heartbeat, among other things. He has also developed kits to teach children to work with electronics.
Don't believe you can be a maker? The workshops organised at the faire will make you think otherwise. Mini workshops on cake decoration, paper quilling and making musical instruments by upcycling and for those with a technical bent of mind, workshops on hacking, cloud services, are lined up.
Besides robotic arms and IoT enabled chairs, there will be interactive art installations such as an audio landscape created by recording people's memories and a bicycle fountain to name a few.![]( "Paul D'Souza with his refreshable Braille display for the visually impaired at the 2015 edition of the fair.")
Inventors and makers from the city and elsewhere will bring their creations out on October 23 at the second edition of "Mini Maker Faire.”
Organised by Workbench Projects and hosted by the BMRCL, the fair on the MG Road Boulevard will have tech enthusiasts, tinkerers, hobbyists, engineers and artists showcasing their projects and talking about them.
Applications were invited for participation, and from the 165 they received, 50 were shortlisted. "The projects are from diverse fields like robotics, Internet of things, homegrown do-it-yourself projects and even artists,” said Pavan Kumar, CEO of Workbench Projects. The idea behind the fair, which saw a footfall of 1,500 in its first edition, is to promote inventing.
One cannot be too young or too old to tinker with tools, as these two entrants from the city have shown.
Nihar Thakkar, 11, will be showcasing a uno-wheel he made with help from his maker parents. Retired DRDO scientist, Ajoy Raman, has built an oscilloscope the size of a matchbox, used to monitor a patient’s heartbeat, among other things. He has also developed kits to teach children to work with electronics.
Don’t believe you can be a maker? The workshops organised at the faire will make you think otherwise. Mini workshops on cake decoration, paper quilling and making musical instruments by upcycling and for those with a technical bent of mind, workshops on hacking, cloud services, are lined up.
Besides robotic arms and IoT enabled chairs, there will be interactive art installations such as an audio landscape created by recording people’s memories and a bicycle fountain to name a few.
Organised by Workbench Projects and hosted by the BMRCL, the fair on the MG Road Boulevard will have tech enthusiasts, tinkerers, hobbyists, engineers and artists showcasing their projects and talking about them.
Applications were invited for participation, and from the 165 they received, 50 were shortlisted. "The projects are from diverse fields like robotics, Internet of things, homegrown do-it-yourself projects and even artists," said Pavan Kumar, CEO of Workbench Projects. The idea behind the fair, which saw a footfall of 1,500 in its first edition, is to promote inventing.
One cannot be too young or too old to tinker with tools, as these two entrants from the city have shown.
Nihar Thakkar, 11, will be showcasing a uno-wheel he made with help from his maker parents. Retired DRDO scientist, Ajoy Raman, has built an oscilloscope the size of a matchbox, used to monitor a patient's heartbeat, among other things. He has also developed kits to teach children to work with electronics.
Don't believe you can be a maker? The workshops organised at the faire will make you think otherwise. Mini workshops on cake decoration, paper quilling and making musical instruments by upcycling and for those with a technical bent of mind, workshops on hacking, cloud services, are lined up.
Besides robotic arms and IoT enabled chairs, there will be interactive art installations such as an audio landscape created by recording people's memories and a bicycle fountain to name a few.
Inventors and makers from the city and elsewhere will bring their creations out on October 23 at the second edition of "Mini Maker Faire.”Organised by Workbench Projects and hosted by the BMRCL, the fair on the MG Road Boulevard will have tech enthusiasts, tinkerers, hobbyists, engineers and artists showcasing their projects and talking about them.
Applications were invited for participation, and from the 165 they received, 50 were shortlisted. "The projects are from diverse fields like robotics, Internet of things, homegrown do-it-yourself projects and even artists,” said Pavan Kumar, CEO of Workbench Projects. The idea behind the fair, which saw a footfall of 1,500 in its first edition, is to promote inventing.
One cannot be too young or too old to tinker with tools, as these two entrants from the city have shown.
Nihar Thakkar, 11, will be showcasing a uno-wheel he made with help from his maker parents. Retired DRDO scientist, Ajoy Raman, has built an oscilloscope the size of a matchbox, used to monitor a patient’s heartbeat, among other things. He has also developed kits to teach children to work with electronics.
Don’t believe you can be a maker? The workshops organised at the faire will make you think otherwise. Mini workshops on cake decoration, paper quilling and making musical instruments by upcycling and for those with a technical bent of mind, workshops on hacking, cloud services, are lined up.
Besides robotic arms and IoT enabled chairs, there will be interactive art installations such as an audio landscape created by recording people’s memories and a bicycle fountain to name a few.