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Break, Make Invent, the mantra reverberated at Maker Faire Hyderabad

Hyderabad : The last day of maiden Hyderabad Edition of Maker Faire continued to draw lot of crowd. It was being holiday crowd, especially families, entrepreneurs came in large numbers.

The entire hall two of Hitex bore a lab look. Break, Make, Invent, the mantra reverberated all over.

Startup’s like Fogrtech, Flowrhex Hugg Innovations, Centaur Automotive, Qtpi. Restyro, Potential labs, Voice Wine, Futuristic labs, Tera Drone, Wozart and yz things shared their journey for the information of visitors.

To become an innovator and to make your innovation to happen you have to break, make and invent said Atul Yadav from Heramb Maker Lab from Pune

According to him they train people in 3D Printing, Basic Electronics, Basic Drone Making and others

Maker Movement is booming in India since 2013, he said and explained various processes of Making such as Curiosity, Tinkering, Maker, Innovator and entrepreneur.

We have produced Circuit Book to teach basics of electronics to kids; Rasberry Pi based IoT Camera and IoT based Temperature sensors, he added.

To nurture innovation, there are many Maker Spaces, Tinkering Labs, Fab Labs and Incubators coming up.  It is nice thing to happen said Atul.

There is a Maker in every one of us. The next Steve Jobs should come from India, Atul told

Government must create more awareness he added.

Speaking about 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 before they enter into job market must be oriented in new wave of technologies.

MakersHive built many Scrap Models, Installations such as Unicorn, Terminator, Walls Robit, Lantern, Hand, Tree Built out of Industrial Scrap etc for Maker Faire.

Bavath Devadass, President of Coimbatore based Fab Kabz, a Maker Space said there are 120 Fab Labs in India, mostly concentrated in Delhi and Bangalore.

Tinkering lab, the second one in India at IIT Hyderabad has come out with Gesture Keyboard. This may replace in future the conventional Computer Key Board. With the help of Gesture Keyboard, which will be very small in comparison to the conventional one, you can write in  air and the same gets typed on the computer screen.

Fox Lab, a Maker Space from Malabar in Kerala, built a very tiny computer called Single Board Computer with a dimensions of 8.5 cm in length and 6.5 cms in breadth. It costs just Rs 3000/-.

They also showcased Long Range Lora, a Wide Area Network, with the help of which WAN network can be accessed remotely from 10kms distance

India has always been a Maker Country. There is a Maker in every one of us said Anupama from Workbench Projects, which is a co-host with T Works to host the India’s largest Maker Faire event.

We must be Makers instead of consumers adds Pavan Kumar co founder of Workbench Projects. Maker Movement is very important to India’s future, he added

India has all the potential to turn more and more people into makers instead of consumers. We must be manufacturing country instead of consumer market.  We are sure at Workbench Projects, know from history that when you give makers the right tools and inspiration, they have the potential to change the world. More so the children. The days are not far away to turn this into a Makers Nation, said Pavan.

We are a knowledge society. Hyderabad is already earned its name for technology. Hyderabad soon will be the New Hub of India’s Maker Movement observes tinkers, makers, innovators at the Maker Faire.

With this successful Maker Faire, the largest one in India, the Indian Maker Movement is kicking, observed a visitor to the Faire.

Maker Movement is a concept originated in USA. To fuel this movement there are good number of Makerspaces that have come up across India.  Makers Asylum, which started out from Mumbai and it also has base in Delhi. There are many more, Workbench Project in Bangalore, Collab House in Hyderabad, CEPT FabLab, Curiosity Gym, Heramb MakerLab in Pune, Fox Lab in Kerala, FAB Labz in Coimbatore, MakersHive in Hyderabad, Tinkering Labs in IITs, Atal Tinkering Labs in Govt schools etc.

Maker Movement though in initial stages is certainly accelerating in India.

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