Making Maker's Asylum & Distributed Manufacturing with Vaibhav and Richa, Maker's Asylum

The Indian Dream

Today's episode is with Vaibhav Chhabra and Richa Shrivastava from Maker's Asylum.
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For those of you who haven't heard of Maker's Asylum, it is a community space where anybody can go and build their dream project with their own hands. For ex, you always wanted to build a table from scratch but don't have the tools or expertise. You can just head over to Maker's Asylum and use the woodworking tools they have available and ask the community for help with your project. If you're a hardware entrepreneurs, you can get easy access to tools, technology and talent so that you can easily prototype your ideas.

Maker's Asylum shot to national fame during the pandemic because they quickly produced face shields at a mass scale. They even designed and built large numbers of oxygen concentrators and then open sourced those designs so that anyone could use it. All of this was only possible because of the passion of the community members of Maker's Asylum.

Maker's Asylum is a great example of how one can build a physical community around a simple idea. Vaibhav wanted to make things with own hands so he built a space and other people joined him.

The first half of this episode is all about Maker's Asylum and the work that they do. The second half of the episode gets really interesting as we speak about distributed manufacturing - it is an idea where the designs for a product are open sourced and anyone who has access to the tools and machineries can build it. This is an interesting idea and Maker's Asylum are at the forefront of bring it to India through their partnerships with companies and governments.

Lastly, Siddharth and I have an exciting announcement to make. We're building a product of our own and we hope to have it ready in a few weeks. Hint - it's going to be a course. While we're tinkering in the background, why don't you join our WhatsApp group where we have 2000+ other founders & entrepreneurs. The link is in the show notes.