Bengaluru, Delhi: If lack of expertise and equipment are preventing you from building your own furniture, or designing a robot, or using 3D printing to create a product prototype, then a ‘makerspace’ could be just the bridge you need between dreaming and doing hands-on work with hardware. And Bengaluru, more than other city in India, has a variety of them, each with its own areas of specialisation.
There’s Koramangala’s 25,000-sq-ft IKP EDEN (Engineering, Design, and Entrepreneurship Network), where high-tech gizmos — including some machines worth Rs 50-60 lakh each and Rs 2 crore worth of biolab equipment — help innovators create all kinds of hardware prototypes, ranging from medical devices to, going by the looks of it, robots shaped like packing boxes.
An hour across town, off the hectic Dodda Banaswadi main road, is THE Workshop, where design, woodworking, and…
