in maker spaces across the country people are gathering to create or take things apart as they try their hand at building everything from diagnostic devices to marine dronesit may be behind a cluster of storefronts and buildings but its hard to miss the crazy coloured lines on a white wall that mark the entrance to makers asylum in delhis hauz rani inside is a highceilinged bright 2000sqft maker space with tools and tech ranging from an oldfashioned drill to a laser cutterwhen vaibhav chhabra set up makers asylum in delhi in 2014 it was to bring people together to share tools and knowledge or as he likes to put it set up a place to break and make at its work benches everyone from phd scholars and designers to working professionals and hobbyists make products as varied as leather bags and satellite ground stationsmaker spaces or hacker spaces are a haven for doityourself enthusiasts theyre collaborative work spaces open to anyone from kids to entrepreneurs and provide a variety of equipment from 3d printers to soldering irons so that anyone with an idea can bring a dream project to life whether it is building a bamboo bicycle or a marine dronea maker space workshop in progressthe twoyearold trend has inspired entrepreneurs with a yen for tinkering to set up maker spaces in mumbai delhi bengaluru hyderabad and chennai from robots to autonomous vehicles that collect garbage all sorts of innovations have started coming out of indias maker spaces its the oldworld workshop of traditional artisans thats converged with new age tools that computer hackers usebeneath bengalurus halasuru metro station is pavan kumar and anupama gowdas workbench projects which grew from their own need for a collaborative workspace they were working on an education startup but it took them a year to build a product prototype without any tools or machines we realized we couldnt work in isolation one needs peers to review and improve upon ideas and products says gowda they set up in a garage on kanakapura road and were soon flooded with requests from people wanting to use their space they started workbench projects after getting the public space beneath the station in the heart of the city through a bid submitted to the bangalore metro rail corporation in december 2013workbench projects ceo anupama gowdaworkbench projects has grown from a tinkering garage to a maker space a coworking space and a public laboratory that has drawn makers as varied as a septuagenarian turning old wine bottles into gift items to a social entrepreneur building a tidal wave energy harvester for valuebased housing in puducherry it charges a membership fee of rs 3000 a month and also offers daily passes to those who want to use the lab and its facilitiesrethinking educationafter spending a decade abroad balaji viswanathan spent several months visiting multiple maker spaces across the globe and penned his thoughts in a makers manifesto this june for todays youth to be ready for future jobs they