I walk into this huge metallic structure which is quite literally right under the Halasuru metro station. As I walk in, I discover a lean man, making stools. It was a tad bit too odd for a carpenter to work on a Sunday and the dress-up didn't really match with the status of a (generally poor) carpenter either. Bored of waiting for Pavan, the founder, i offered to help. The person Immediately refused politely which was quite a relief,given my clumsiness with woodwork, something that I had discovered in the first year of my college.
Getting the person to talk was a bit difficult, however with minor chitchat i figured out that he was an employee, and everything in the "space", as they would call it, was self made, from tables to the shelves. I could immediately visualize the space to be full of goblin like creatures which run around tweaking, opening, cutting doing whatnot to bring it to life.
The only difference being that the army of goblins was actually a team of five and occasionally, a handful of the seasonal interns.
Getting the person to talk was a bit difficult, however with minor chitchat i figured out that he was an employee, and everything in the "space", as they would call it, was self made, from tables to the shelves. I could immediately visualize the space to be full of goblin like creatures which run around tweaking, opening, cutting doing whatnot to bring it to life.
The only difference being that the army of goblins was actually a team of five and occasionally, a handful of the seasonal interns.
Being in a maker-space has its benefits. One second you are opening up a macbook charger without knowing what is inside. The very next second someone from Intel walks over explaining the power electronic circuits inside. What is even more amusing, is that no idea no matter how ridiculous it may be to the common man, fail to shock the founders. If you were to walk to Anu and Pavan describing your take on time machines and wanting to build one, all you would get is a big thumbs up and possibly a pat on the back to encourage you to go forward with it. What perhaps makes the space even more charged up is what i call the get it done now attitude, A meet on bio-mimicry or be it a prank on the manager or a barbecue there is always something going on. it is perhaps this environment that rejuvenated my love for the DIY community and drove me headfirst into the Indian maker community.
Being in a maker-space has its benefits. One second you are opening up a macbook charger without knowing what is inside. The very next second someone from Intel walks over explaining the power electronic circuits inside. What is even more amusing, is that no idea no matter how ridiculous it may be to the common man, fail to shock the founders. If you were to walk to Anu and Pavan describing your take on time machines and wanting to build one, all you would get is a big thumbs up and possibly a pat on the back to encourage you to go forward with it. What perhaps makes the space even more charged up is what i call the get it done now attitude, A meet on bio-mimicry or be it a prank on the manager or a barbecue there is always something going on. it is perhaps this environment that rejuvenated my love for the DIY community and drove me headfirst into the Indian maker community.