MakerThursday 0x04: Announcements and Project Updates

Overview

This Maker Thursday was mostly a community sync with announcements, ownership on upcoming events, and a few project updates. We aligned on timelines for collaborations, deployments that went live, and what to prepare for the next couple of months.

Announcements and Decisions

• Kochi-Muziris Biennale experience zone: TinkerHub will collaborate with Forplay Society to set up an experience zone. Jasim and Salman will take ownership, planned from Feb 25 to Mar 1, 2026.

• Inventory management: Shaan Shoukath joined as the new Inventory Manager, and the parts requesting/managing site is live at https://makerspace-inventory-hub.vercel.app/.
• Meshtastic hiking plan: A Meshtastic hiking activity is being planned in collaboration with Seeed Studio and TinkerSpace. Samad and Jasim will be responsible for, targeting April 2026.
• Arduino Day: Planned for Mar 28, 2026, with Abhiram taking ownership (details to be finalized).
• 3D printer queue system: The queue system was deployed by Ryyan Safar (available via https://tinkerspace-3d-printing-queue.vercel.app/).
• Kutty Makers Camp: Planned during working days in April 2026 (summer). Everyone present was requested to contribute one working day for the event.

Discussion

• Devadath shared about Google’s VLM-based robotics arm work (Gemini Robotics) and related ideas for vision-guided manipulation.
• We also looked at the Seeed Studio robotics arm project: reBot DevArm.

Project Presentation

• DIY MacroPad: Some components have arrived, and a full presentation is planned for an upcoming Maker Thursday.

Photos

Highlights

• Clear ownership and timelines were set across multiple upcoming events, with a few key infrastructure updates going live for the space.

Next Week

• Topic: TBD
• Host: TBD