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Title: "Maker" culture in India
Post by: anwar on May 01, 2013, 11:37:32 PM
Wonder if we have any sort of "maker" clubs (and maker faires) in our cities.  Would love to see stuff like these.

http://blog.makezine.com/2013/04/30/bodhis-boat-and-pony-trap-at-austin-mini-maker-faire/

http://vimeo.com/64249840


Title: Re: "Maker" culture in India
Post by: VC on May 01, 2013, 11:46:57 PM
 :bow: impressed, to say the least.  :bow:


Title: Re: "Maker" culture in India
Post by: sanjayrai55 on May 02, 2013, 08:00:25 AM
There are many serious DIYers in India. I guess time is the constraint....many of us are too busy earning a living, and when we do have time finally, we are old and feeble


Title: Re: "Maker" culture in India
Post by: aniket210696 on May 02, 2013, 09:02:10 AM
that boat looks like an optimist class sailboat.... that should be the easiest boat to build.... and its easy to sail ;D


Title: Re: "Maker" culture in India
Post by: girishsarwal on May 02, 2013, 11:05:33 AM
Very nice. The kid looks Indian and his name sounds Indian as well.

There are more DIYers in our country than most others I feel; So to speak the concept of Jugaad spawns out of our DIY tendencies. Opportunities for show an tell, and more importantly, collaboration and joint effort, have been limited. But I see the scene changing. Anwar bhai, you've created one such opportunity for us with RCI.

PS: Lovely to see this kid 'doing' stuff in an era where most kids want to be rockstars on TV reality shows. No offence but its disheartening to see kids behave like mature adults on TV; courtesy media overexposure.



Title: Re: "Maker" culture in India
Post by: aniket210696 on May 02, 2013, 11:42:37 AM
:iagree: i wish there were "hacker-zones" over here.... loads of people collaborating.....
sadly nowadays nobody is interested...

 all my friends have asked me things like:-
"why did you waste so much money on making a plane when you could buy one for cheap..."
"what's the point... it just crashed.. there goes your money..."

this is the general public i guess :(


Title: Re: "Maker" culture in India
Post by: veloci on May 02, 2013, 03:53:46 PM

PS: Lovely to see this kid 'doing' stuff in an era where most kids want to be rockstars on TV reality shows. No offence but its disheartening to see kids behave like mature adults on TV; courtesy media overexposure.

:thumbsup: