Fab12 conference was when I went abroad for the first time in my life and it was a roller coaster ride. There was a delay in processing of my passport which trickled down to the issue of my visa. It was all Amidst the fear about the problems that might occur in visa processing, passport issuance and status of my graduation. My passport was issued 2 weeks before the start of the conference and my passport issued a week before the conference.
I arrived in Shenzhen on 8th August Via Hongkong, and was happy to team up with Pradnya from Vigyan ashram who was also to be in tech guru for today. I think the first two days of setting up things were critical and we managed to set things up just fine.
The following were the machines we setup.
Sindoh 3d printer -1
GCC laser engraver - 2
Roland Modela MDX 20 - 2
Epilog laser engraver - 4
We were given a lenovo thinkpad with windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 for each machine. The windows 7 seemed laggy and tested our patience sometimes.
I did not have time to setup the machines using Ubuntu and fab modules, but thats something I wanted to try and do.
They spoke about an advisory model of services. This was a service which applied to any inventor and person with an idea. They provide advices to any common citizen with an idea and empower him to make a product good enough that a private sector company can buy it from them in return of a royalty. The Advisory council acts as a liaison between the private sector and inventors and negotiate deals so that it can benefit both.
This kind of a model provides an alternate approach to starting up. Usually 9 in 10 startups fail. A startup takes a lot of effort and luck and money to be successful alternatively if we could use the already existing manufacturing, marketing and distribution and stability of an established private sector and make it work with innovation of a common citizen this results in a sustainable economic output with minimal loss to everyone involved, greater overall benefit to the society, and a lot less stress for the inventor.
This concept will be with me for a while and I want to see how this can apply to my situation and situation in India.
Tech Guru
I wrote mail to fab foundation asking if I could be of any help and volunteer in the event similar to what I had done for the setting up of fab labs in Kerala and I was happy to find that they did have a spot for me as a tech-guru. It also helped me reduce financial burden of abroad travel and stay a little.I arrived in Shenzhen on 8th August Via Hongkong, and was happy to team up with Pradnya from Vigyan ashram who was also to be in tech guru for today. I think the first two days of setting up things were critical and we managed to set things up just fine.
The following were the machines we setup.
Sindoh 3d printer -1
GCC laser engraver - 2
Roland Modela MDX 20 - 2
Epilog laser engraver - 4
We were given a lenovo thinkpad with windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 for each machine. The windows 7 seemed laggy and tested our patience sometimes.
I did not have time to setup the machines using Ubuntu and fab modules, but thats something I wanted to try and do.
Workshops
I was keen in attending workshop with business model for fab labs and related to management of fablab. And when I found time I found the workshop taken by the people from Danish technical institute which I found was superb workshop. It was for 2 hrs but our interactions extended up to 3 hours.They spoke about an advisory model of services. This was a service which applied to any inventor and person with an idea. They provide advices to any common citizen with an idea and empower him to make a product good enough that a private sector company can buy it from them in return of a royalty. The Advisory council acts as a liaison between the private sector and inventors and negotiate deals so that it can benefit both.
This kind of a model provides an alternate approach to starting up. Usually 9 in 10 startups fail. A startup takes a lot of effort and luck and money to be successful alternatively if we could use the already existing manufacturing, marketing and distribution and stability of an established private sector and make it work with innovation of a common citizen this results in a sustainable economic output with minimal loss to everyone involved, greater overall benefit to the society, and a lot less stress for the inventor.
This concept will be with me for a while and I want to see how this can apply to my situation and situation in India.
Graduation
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Shenzhen
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