The CIF, inside
The Columbus Idea Foundry (CIF) is a 65,000 square ft. “makerspace” designed to help creators, entrepreneurs, designers and artists “make” things. Essentially, the Idea Foundry is a large workshop with lots of different tools designed to help hardware creators and small business’s gain cheap access to the equipment they need, in order to make anything from prototypes to small production runs.
Alex Bandar founded the Columbus Idea Foundry
The Idea Foundry includes an IC3D 3D printer. A complete 3D-printing class is also available to those wishing to learn how to use the up and coming technology. Raspberry Pi is also represented with workshops as well as coding classes.
Custom manufacturing is a relatively new movement in the United States. It seeks to give some of the…
