While I was working with Biotz with their 3D printer Mr. Jayshankar KSUM expressed interest in taking me as a fellow to promote and engage in fab lab related activities. I was very interested in enhancing my skill as a product designer, from just mechanical area to electronics and overall product design. I join KSUM as a fellow from October 2015. My area of focus was management and projects related to Fab Lab, including workshops, material management, managing visits to the fablab from corporates and the students of engineering colleges and government officials also.
I was the local assistant for the Fab Academy from the Trivandrum lab. I was responsible for setting up the lab for video conferencing with MIT MCU and session with remote guru, managing materials required for each week and acting as a liaison between the academy and the KSUM when required.
KSUM(Kerala startup Mission) is an Business incubator backed up by the government of Kerala and Directorate of Science and technology of India, and is located in the Technopark campus in Trivandrum, Kerala. KSUM is responsible for promoting and supporting entrepreneurial activities all over Kerala. KSUM identifies and employs exceptional people who are able to enhance and contribute to the startup ecosystem of the state and provide support in promotion of entrepreneurship related activities of KSUM, for a period of one year. Through the support of KSUM, fellows get exposure to people and opportunities they wouldn't normally have access to and helps them spread their wings farther in the space of startups.
In order to boost innovation in hardware related sector, IOT related products and to work on and create more socially relevant digital fabricated tools KSUM and Kerala Government is betting big on the maker movement and personal fabrication concepts. Kerala now has plans to setup more than 100 fablabs all over Kerala in different educational institutes and open spaces to achieve its vision.
KSUM had setup two Fab labs through an arrangement with the MIT and Fab Foundation. The fab labs were setup in Trivandrum at IIITMK university in Technopark campus and in a business incubator under KSUM called the Startup Village in the Kinfra Hightech park in Cohin. I was also involved in setting up both the labs. Now we needed instructors in Kerala who are educated in the ways of the Fab lab, know its processes and exploit them to make projects and be able to collaborate and spread the learnings. For this we needed the fellows to take Fab Academy. KSUM allowed me to take up Fab Academy through the Trivandrum Fab lab.
I was the local assistant for the Fab Academy from the Trivandrum lab. I was responsible for setting up the lab for video conferencing with MIT MCU and session with remote guru, managing materials required for each week and acting as a liaison between the academy and the KSUM when required.
KSUM(Kerala startup Mission) is an Business incubator backed up by the government of Kerala and Directorate of Science and technology of India, and is located in the Technopark campus in Trivandrum, Kerala. KSUM is responsible for promoting and supporting entrepreneurial activities all over Kerala. KSUM identifies and employs exceptional people who are able to enhance and contribute to the startup ecosystem of the state and provide support in promotion of entrepreneurship related activities of KSUM, for a period of one year. Through the support of KSUM, fellows get exposure to people and opportunities they wouldn't normally have access to and helps them spread their wings farther in the space of startups.
In order to boost innovation in hardware related sector, IOT related products and to work on and create more socially relevant digital fabricated tools KSUM and Kerala Government is betting big on the maker movement and personal fabrication concepts. Kerala now has plans to setup more than 100 fablabs all over Kerala in different educational institutes and open spaces to achieve its vision.
KSUM had setup two Fab labs through an arrangement with the MIT and Fab Foundation. The fab labs were setup in Trivandrum at IIITMK university in Technopark campus and in a business incubator under KSUM called the Startup Village in the Kinfra Hightech park in Cohin. I was also involved in setting up both the labs. Now we needed instructors in Kerala who are educated in the ways of the Fab lab, know its processes and exploit them to make projects and be able to collaborate and spread the learnings. For this we needed the fellows to take Fab Academy. KSUM allowed me to take up Fab Academy through the Trivandrum Fab lab.
