About the project
Fab Academy is an intensive fi ve-month program that teaches students to envision, design and prototype projects using digital fabrication tools and machines. It is a multi-disciplinary and hands-on learning experience that empowers students to learn-by-doing and inspires them to make stuff locally to become active participants in sustainable cities and communities.
Project Type : Individual
Client : Extra Curricular Project
Year : 2018
Mold Design
UI Design
Designed Yoga Props
Scaned and Printed my own bust
I designed flexible PCBS . More information here
Machining the mold and pour
USB programmer
UI design and Testing
Group project to create a robotic Arm
Networked boards
Some snapshots of the my assignments which I completed during fabacademy. More information about them can be found on the website.
Some snapshots of my work during the course:
Vigyan Ashram is a center of Indian Institute Of Education(IIE) Pune. A scientist turned educationalist Late
Dr.S.S.Kalbag started Vigyan Ashram in 1983 to find out solution to the problems in education.
For us “Vigyan” means ‘Search of Truth’ and “Ashram” symbolises ‘Simple living and High thinking for us, a organization where all are equal, it’s a modern version of old Gurukul system’
To increase the pace and quality of our education delivery system, ashram adopted new information technology. Many Govt and Private organization and individual donor supported
the programs of ashram. Vigyan Ashram is located in village Pabal approx 70 kms from
Pune. Its situated on Rajgurunagar - Shirur Road. Population of Pabal is @ 10000. There are several small hamlets attached to Pabal which make Pabal central market place.
Pabal is drought prone and its truly representative Indian village. Idea of establishing Vigyan Ashram at Pabal is whatever we do at Ashram can be replicated in any part of the country. Vigyan Ashram is working on the above philosophy named as ‘Rural Development through Education System (RDES)’
initiated and practised by its founder Dr.S.S Kalbag. Various appropriate Technologies innovations developed are disseminated through the education program.
Students learn by ‘Learning while doing’ methodology and while doing so they provide services to community at modest cost. This gives students experience and confidence to start their own enterprises. Appropriate technologies are disseminated through these rural enterprises.
Education based on ‘Learning while doing’ philosophy gives meaningful education to students and helps to develop scientific temper and work culture in them. VA tried to integratetechnology in the concept of ‘work centered education’. It is also demonstrated new areas and ways of providing community services. VA believes, for education for 21st century, we need to change our education system from ‘Book
centric’ to ‘Work centric’ education.Therefore VA set its self vision of ‘To become a national resource centre for research, development and training for transformation towards work based education system and related social policies’.
Background of Vigyan Ashram:
I started my career as an Electronics and Telecommunication engineer but I'll always be inclined to Industrial Design. This led me to join FabLab Vigyan Ashram, where I initially joined purely so that I could explore the machines at the lab. Vigyan Ashram is much more than just a lab, it’s a research center based on implementing rural technology. It tapped into the community of the local farmers to teach them the scientific methods of farming at the same time, trying to understand the tacit knowledge of the farmers who know only the language of experience and not numbers. My experience of working and living in Pabal, which is a typical Indian village, gave me insights into a very different part of India which was just 40 miles from home. Pabal was a very different reality for my clear lack of development about various aspects of life was eye-opening such as infrastructure problems, lacking medical facilities, and connectivity issues. It made me very grateful for the life that I have. Vigyan Ashram was a great learning experience where I had to learn how to be resourceful, patient, and develop a greater understanding of the context. It was also the place where I completed my FabAcademy.This was also one of the best and most useful courses that I've ever done.