Inspiring young minds, promoting innovation

Maker Faire evokes good response

November 12, 2018 12:37 am | Updated 12:37 am IST - HYDERABAD

The maiden Hyderabad edition of Maker Faire evoked good response from tech buffs, including youth and children, families and entrepreneurs on the last day of the event on Sunday.

Startups such as Fogrtech, Flowrhex Hugg Innovations, Centaur Automotive, Qtpi.Restyro, Potential labs, Voice Wine, Futuristic labs, Tera Drone, Wozart and Yz things shared their journey to enlighten the visitors.

Preparing students

Speaking about the maker movement in the city, Tarun of MakersHive, a Hyderabad-based startup which is into developing prosthetics arms, drone technologies and augmented reality-based interactive books, said engineering college students must be oriented to new wave of technologies before they enter the job market.

MakersHive has built many scrap models and installations such as unicorn, terminator, walls robit, lantern, hand and tree from industrial scrap for the event and exhibited them, said a press release. Bavath Devadass, president of Coimbatore-based Fab Kabz, said there were 120 fab labs in the country, mostly concentrated in Delhi and Bengaluru.

Atul Yadav from Heramb Maker Lab from Pune said one has to break, make and invest to become an innovator and to make his/her innovation to happen. The startup trains people in 3D printing, basic electronics, basic drone making and others, he said. Stating that maker movement is booming in India since 2013, he explained various processes of making such as curiosity, tinkering, maker, innovator and entrepreneur.

He also stated that they had produced Circuit Book to teach basics of electronics to kids; Raspberry Pi based IoT camera and IoT-based temperature sensors. To nurture innovation, many maker spaces, tinkering labs, fab labs and incubators are coming up and it is a welcome development.

Tinkering Lab, the second one in India at IIT-Hyderabad, has come out with a Gesture Keyboard, which may replace the conventional computer keyboard in future, the release said adding that it will be very small in comparison to the conventional keyboard. One can write in air and the same will get typed on the computer screen.

Fox Lab, a maker space from Malabar in Kerala, has built a tiny computer called Single Board with dimensions of 8.5 cm x 6.5 cm costing just ₹3,000.

They also showcased Long Range Lora, a wide area network, which with the help of which WAN network can be accessed remotely from 10 km distance, the release said.

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