[Startup Hatch] Workbench Projects: how this makerspace spurs creativity, skills and a bit of magic

[This article is part of the YourStory series Startup Hatch, about incubators, accelerators and makerspaces in the startup ecosystem. See earlier profiles of incubation and acceleration initiatives at IIT Bombay, IIM Bangalore, BITS Pilani, NCL, Tata Elxsi, Axilor, NID, IIIT-Bangalore, IIIT-Hyderabad, Vellore Institute of Technology and PSG Coimbatore. ]

Workbench Projects (WP) is a Bengaluru-based makerspace, a cross-disciplinary platform for the public to toy with ideas, tinker with tools and machines to prototype and build for the future. Located at the Halasuru metro station, its initiatives in ‘responsible innovation’ include the ‘Girls Gone Tech’ programme for schoolgirls.

WP has partnered with CMRIT engineering college in Bengaluru, and provides a digital fabrication facility as well as patent filing advice. It offers workshops on sustainable tech, and has curated the…