Pradnya@Vigyan Ashram

About me

I am Electrical engineer by education but maker by hobby. I am working with Vigyan Ashram FAB LAB since 2013 and here I come to know real meaning of technology apart from engineering text books, reason to join fab academy is to explore my self and learn about elctronics,programing.
I am new for all so, learning various thing is my first aim. So I am gonna try simple Light Intensity measuring device under this course.

What is Fab lab

‘We can make almost anything !’ in the tagline of Fab Lab. Fab Lab, a brain child of Dr. Neil Greshenfield(Director, Center of Bits and atoms ,MIT(USA)) is a collection of commercially available machines and parts linked by software and processes MIT has developed for making things. The project aims to give ordinary people around the world the technology to design and make their own stuff.

In Pabal village we have FAB LAB,
Vigyan Ashram is the first fab lab outside MIT.It is established in 2002 and received capital equipment by NSF-USA and IITK. Fab Labs is kind of distributed international network of scientific researchers and community inventors to define, conduct and apply new discoveries and inventions for benefit to both research and local communities.

Goal of the Fab Labs is to find solutions to some of the most pressing problems the world faces today through distributed research network.VA has taken various appropriate technology projects under Fab lab. Some of them are i) Human power based lighting solution ii) LED lights iii) Egg incubator iv) Agri sensors etc. VA Fab Lab hosts several innovative students projects (Diploma-Graduate-Masters) every year.

After this course my vision is that a majority of the rural section will thus get access to most modern techniques and this will spur development from the grass-roots and ultimately, propel India into the new age.