Vigyan Ashram

History of our Fab Lab

Vigyan Ashram is a center of Indian Institute of Education (IIE) Pune established by Dr.S.S. Kalbag in 1983. It's a modern version of old Gurukula systems of 'simple living and high thinking'. Dr.Neil Greshenfeld, (Director, Center of Bits and atoms, MIT (USA) who created the Fab Lab, described Vigyan Ashram as ‘Fab Lab Zero’. VA-Fab lab was established through the interaction between Dr.Kalbag and Dr.Neil Greshenfeld in 2002. It was started in a small 40 sq.ft room. VA made slow and steady progress to master the use of Fab Lab to solve rural problems.