Fab Lab CEPT

Build almost anything

CEPT Universty, Kasturbhai Lalbhai Campus, University Road, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - Gujarat - 380009

Fab Lab Atelier universitaire Espace de coworking

Superficie 144 m²

Ouvert en Janvier 2014

Type de structure Non-profit organisation

Exploré en Mai 2017

Fab Lab CEPT is one of the legion Fab Labs around the world that promote strong communities through learning, doing, and sharing.

Contact

Tapan.betai@cept.ac.in
+919016929970
https://fablab.cept.ac.in/
Membre de Fab Labs world network

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Thématiques principales

Technologie - machines & outils Initiatives sociales & solidaires Communauté Entrepreneuriat Robotique Santé & bien-être Education Energie & environnement Electronique Design

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Fab Lab CEPT, created in January 2014, is the 1st lab of its kind in Ahmedabad, capital of the state of Gujarat.

Located in the green and gigantic CEPT University campus, you will be impressed by the potential of creativity here: ceramic, wood, clay or metal workshops as high-tech machines like 3D printers, laser-cutter and CNC machines are freely available from Monday to Saturday.

Asha Jadeja, a philanthropist and entrepreneur Indian woman from San Francisco, who wanted to build something good for her country, initiated the Fab Lab creation with CEPT University. This is Neil Gershenfeld who convinced Asha when having lunch to participate in the promotion of the Indian maker movement. Originally fully dedicated to the University students, the Fab Lab incrementally opened its doors to everyone, whatever one’s background.

Today, the lab’s mission has been evolving and aims also to help makers develop their ideas for the global market. That’s how Nitin Gupta was able to create his own start-up, Hectare, hosted by Sickle: a fruit picker which facilitates Indian farmers’ life.

When we first entered Fab Lab CEPT, the lively but studious atmosphere stroke us. A 10-kid-workshop was ongoing (10% of users), professional makers where working on their fabacademy projects and tenth of CEPT students in design and architecture (50% of users) were in the wood and ceramic workshops.

As you will have understood: diversity is key here. More than 40% of the users don’t belong to CEPT University: it is mostly engineers, designers or start-uppers.

More than 610 members come in the Fab Lab every month, including 10 in-house makers for Fab Academy. Community is key for Fab Lab CEPT. That’s what makes the word-of-mouth so important for them. Even makers from Mumbai or Bangalore come in Fab Lab CEPT to be mentored and challenged to develop their idea.

It usually happens that once a maker has finished to develop his product, he comes back and keeps on helping the community with his own expertise. Moreover, as soon as the team spots an expertise detained by a maker, he proposes him to set up a workshop on this latter to share it to the community. It embarks the members and builds everyone’s skills.

CEPT University and Asha Jedeva’s foundation (MJFF) launched Fab Lab CEPT thanks to a 100,000-euro-budget : building, machines, equipment and wages.

Yearly, 17 500€ is spent to run the lab:

• 35% to maintain the lab (machines, repairs, materials, wages…)

• 10% for in-house projects (furnitures, tools,…)

• 10% for fabricate.me course

• 25% Fab Academy scholarship

• 20% for travel and events

Its revenues come from monthly memberships (1 800€ / year), but it currently doesn’t cover the Fab Lab costs.

In July, Fab Lab CEPT plans to move in a bigger new space inside the University. As the Fab Lab is expanding with more users and a brand-new business incubator, a workshop coordinator will be hired in the following months.

The main challenge of the lab today are :

• The creation of a proper documentation process in several languages (English, hindi, gujarati)

• A difficult material procurement

• Lack of visibility of makers and Fab Labs toward the outside world

The 7 passionate-maker-team is organized around 3 core pillars: Events, Academics and Entrepreneurship.

The Event pillar includes long-term workshops for kids from 8 to 18 years old, weekly FABFriday events which are said a “fun way to learn basic fabrication” on various topics and the annual gathering, MakerFest, the Indian continuation of MakerFaire.

As part of Academics, 2 mentors from Fab Lab CEPT coach 8 students on their Fab Academy projects. Also, the Fab Lab dedicates its staff and facilities for CEPT University’s Summer and Winter School programs. During 3 weeks, students will learn how to handle digital fabrication tools and discover the maker culture.

The Entrepreneurship pillar is intended to take more importance inside the Fab Lab organization. Lately, their “acceleration program” has been kickstarted in order to help start-uppers to develop their idea from the 1st prototype to the commercialization. For now, 3 start-ups went onto the market : Hectare, Oizom and Crear.

This is only a start!

According to Tapan, documentation at Fab Lab CEPT constitutes one of their main challenge.

Currently, all the workshops dedicated to the University students have a specific internal documentation process. This latter is handled by the University’s administrative Department itself and is accessible only to their students.

Regarding the other workshops, part of them are documented by the mentor thanks to photographs and videos uploaded on Facebook. The Fab Lab’s team is encouraging makers to document rigorously their work and is here to assist them.

For now, the whole process of documentation has been made for 2 of them (Hectare and Circuitricks): they mostly post photographs, videos on their website, and share their code on GITHUB.

Fab Lab CEPT, created in January 2014, is the 1st lab of its kind in Ahmedabad, capital of the state of Gujarat.

Located in the green and gigantic CEPT University campus, you will be impressed by the potential of creativity here: ceramic, wood, clay or metal workshops as high-tech machines like 3D printers, laser-cutter and CNC machines are freely available from Monday to Saturday.

Asha Jadeja, a philanthropist and entrepreneur Indian woman from San Francisco, who wanted to build something good for her country, initiated the Fab Lab creation with CEPT University. This is Neil Gershenfeld who convinced Asha when having lunch to participate in the promotion of the Indian maker movement. Originally fully dedicated to the University students, the Fab Lab incrementally opened its doors to everyone, whatever one’s background.

Today, the lab’s mission has been evolving and aims also to help makers develop their ideas for the global market. That’s how Nitin Gupta was able to create his own start-up, Hectare, hosted by Sickle: a fruit picker which facilitates Indian farmers’ life.

When we first entered Fab Lab CEPT, the lively but studious atmosphere stroke us. A 10-kid-workshop was ongoing (10% of users), professional makers where working on their fabacademy projects and tenth of CEPT students in design and architecture (50% of users) were in the wood and ceramic workshops.

As you will have understood: diversity is key here. More than 40% of the users don’t belong to CEPT University: it is mostly engineers, designers or start-uppers.

More than 610 members come in the Fab Lab every month, including 10 in-house makers for Fab Academy. Community is key for Fab Lab CEPT. That’s what makes the word-of-mouth so important for them. Even makers from Mumbai or Bangalore come in Fab Lab CEPT to be mentored and challenged to develop their idea.

It usually happens that once a maker has finished to develop his product, he comes back and keeps on helping the community with his own expertise. Moreover, as soon as the team spots an expertise detained by a maker, he proposes him to set up a workshop on this latter to share it to the community. It embarks the members and builds everyone’s skills.

CEPT University and Asha Jedeva’s foundation (MJFF) launched Fab Lab CEPT thanks to a 100,000-euro-budget : building, machines, equipment and wages.

Yearly, 17 500€ is spent to run the lab:

• 35% to maintain the lab (machines, repairs, materials, wages…)

• 10% for in-house projects (furnitures, tools,…)

• 10% for fabricate.me course

• 25% Fab Academy scholarship

• 20% for travel and events

Its revenues come from monthly memberships (1 800€ / year), but it currently doesn’t cover the Fab Lab costs.

In July, Fab Lab CEPT plans to move in a bigger new space inside the University. As the Fab Lab is expanding with more users and a brand-new business incubator, a workshop coordinator will be hired in the following months.

The main challenge of the lab today are :

• The creation of a proper documentation process in several languages (English, hindi, gujarati)

• A difficult material procurement

• Lack of visibility of makers and Fab Labs toward the outside world

The 7 passionate-maker-team is organized around 3 core pillars: Events, Academics and Entrepreneurship.

The Event pillar includes long-term workshops for kids from 8 to 18 years old, weekly FABFriday events which are said a “fun way to learn basic fabrication” on various topics and the annual gathering, MakerFest, the Indian continuation of MakerFaire.

As part of Academics, 2 mentors from Fab Lab CEPT coach 8 students on their Fab Academy projects. Also, the Fab Lab dedicates its staff and facilities for CEPT University’s Summer and Winter School programs. During 3 weeks, students will learn how to handle digital fabrication tools and discover the maker culture.

The Entrepreneurship pillar is intended to take more importance inside the Fab Lab organization. Lately, their “acceleration program” has been kickstarted in order to help start-uppers to develop their idea from the 1st prototype to the commercialization. For now, 3 start-ups went onto the market : Hectare, Oizom and Crear.

This is only a start!

According to Tapan, documentation at Fab Lab CEPT constitutes one of their main challenge.

Currently, all the workshops dedicated to the University students have a specific internal documentation process. This latter is handled by the University’s administrative Department itself and is accessible only to their students.

Regarding the other workshops, part of them are documented by the mentor thanks to photographs and videos uploaded on Facebook. The Fab Lab’s team is encouraging makers to document rigorously their work and is here to assist them.

For now, the whole process of documentation has been made for 2 of them (Hectare and Circuitricks): they mostly post photographs, videos on their website, and share their code on GITHUB.

Technologies & procédés mis à disposition

Fraisage numérique Impression 3D Scan 3D Moulage Découpe laser Découpe vinyle Outils pour le bois Outils pour le métal Etabli outillage

Services proposés

Coaching & mentorat de projets Formations & ateliers pratiques Espace de travail partagé FabAcademy programme Hébergement de startups & projets Prototypage Adhésions à l'atelier Temps libres

Nos pratiques inspirantes

Ce que nous faisons de particulier pour gérer notre espace collaboratif

Empowerment of makers in the lab’s community

What is it?

Fablab CEPT has been building a very strong and involved community since its creation. It’s mainly due to the fact that each time a maker seems to have a specific skill or expertise, the team suggests him to document his project and organize a dedicated workshop.

In concrete terms?

The documentation of the maker’s expertise / project will be posted on social networks and the fablab website, fully accessible to anyone.

Moreover, the workshop will be organized with the fablab team for the maker. The objective behind it is to share simply and informally knowledge inside the community.

Why it’s interesting?

By sharing one’s knowledge to the community, the maker is officially recognized by the fablab as an expert. This is a good way to empower people and mobilize them as an active member of the community.

Nos projets de makers

Inspirez-vous des projets DIY de notre équipe & nos membres

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Solving water supply issues with IoT

What is it?

Gautam, born and raised in Bangalore, has a mission: bringing awareness to his country about climate issues. Experts foresee a terrible water crisis in Bangalore which will make the city inhabitable by 2025. To prevent that disaster, Gautam co-founded Reapbenefit: an 18-people non-profit-organization that “builds the next generation of problem solvers, by involving youth, to solve local environment and civic problems”.

As water is the crux of the issue, he decided on top of that to create himself a centralized water system that automatically and transparently adjust the water supply in each room of a house. Instead of running out of water, you’ll be able to see how much water it remains in your place thanks to an app “Watermeter” and you’ll have a regulated quantity of water in your different rooms, according to your needs.

How did he interact with the workshop?

As a Fab Academy student in Fab Lab CEPT, Gautam has been able to learn new techniques, to “get his hands dirty” as he says.

3D printer, laser cutter and Arduino are the main machines and materials used for his 1st prototype.

What are the next steps?

Gautam wants to empower people towards climate change thanks to his innovation. To do so, he’ll post all his documentation in opensource in the following months.

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ARMD - a device to raise awareness on climate change

Project story

Human activity increasingly generates artificial aerosols (particles due to the traffic activity, factories,…) that alter locally the climate and the health.

But our daily impact seems intangible, theoric.

Moreover, existing scientific devices to measure the amount of nocive particles are currently unaffordable, seldom intuitive and not user-friendly.

In 2016, Mohit created his own version of “Sun Photometer”, 16 times cheaper than the scientific ones and user-friendly. 3 colours on the device will show you the level of nocive particles around you. The objective of Mohit: bring awareness of people, its 1st target is children, on climate change

How did he use the lab?

Thanks to the lab, Mohit became an electronics enthusiast and learnt how to design thanks to softwares. He has been able to make his 1st prototype thanks to the machines and available material.

What’s next ?

Mohit would like to add more features: alarm system, graph and spreadsheet integrated in the device. And by the end of May, he’ll document and post in opensource all his researches.

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