Description

There are more and more people who can access high tech digital technology like 3D printing and open-source electronics and robotics. There are becoming proficient in many different fields and are constantly looking for challenges which can help them learn more in the process.
The maker culture in general supports open-source hardware. Typical interests enjoyed by the maker culture include engineering-oriented pursuits such as electronics, robotics, 3-D printing,  as well as more traditional activities such as metalworking, woodworking, and, mainly, its predecessor, the traditional arts and crafts. The subculture stresses a cut-and-paste approach to standardized hobbyist technologies, and encourages re-use of designs published on websites. 
For a maker, finding a challenge where they can learn during the creation process is priority- makers do not make objects for the objects sake. They need a personal or social goal to support, to help with.
We offer them the opportunity to help those people who the most need any serious physical help.In a makerspace, you can easily build a custom wheelchair from scratch, develop a working industrial prototype to help any aspect of disabled peoples lives.
The field in which these technologies can offer prototype solutions are:
Custom built devices to help movement
Robotics systems to help impaired vision, hearing, etc.
3D printed artificial prosthesis
Educational devices to help non-disabled people understand disabled people's everyday life challenges (vision impairment glasses, custom clothing, etc)
Internet of Things electronic sense enhancing or feedback systems, sensor systems
3D printed or CNC milled basic
Architectural solutions
Automatized systems
For this we only need people who can form their needs, and people who can answer this needs - the makerspace have all the technology to create these objects.
What we want to do with the challenge is to facilitate the meeting and collaboration of these people

Target

Disability is a universal phenomenon. However urban centers tend to accumulate more situations in which disabled people have to come over major obstacles in their life.
Makerspaces are also an urban phenomenon, makers are more concentrated in urban areas. The geographical location is Budapest.
Makers will have the opportunity to meet people who they can really have the power to help
Disabled people will have access to prototyping technology like 3D printers which were limited to large companies before.
Both group can learn about each others opportunities and difficulties.
The Maker Movement have already made a very good example how individual makers  have managed t improve the life of people with disabilities. We want to form this challenge to be an example in the region: we want to show the the Eastern European maker communities that social challanges are worth to take and they should do the same.

Competencies

Our makerspace is established by people from diverse backgrounds and our common goal is to find purpose in making things, big or small, complicated or simple.
Makerspace is environment of makers, where one can create new things without being disturbed.
“Maker Space is a general term for a place where people get together to make things. Maker Spaces might focus on electronics, robotics, woodworking, sewing, laser cutting, programming, or some combination of these skills.” 
It is our goal to show that work is value to young people. We’d like children who visit Makerspace.hu to leave with pride in themselves through their creative work and achievements.
Makerspace.hu is a digital community workshop, which teaches digital manufacturing techniques (3D printing, laser cutting, CNC and robotics) to young people, strengthens their innovative skills,motivates to study and work independently,
We offer tools and educational materials for makers and help them to build a community.

Innovation

We know many examples when Universal Design workshops or group of disabled peoples worked together successfully in other makerspaces in the western countries.
We also already know many makers who are happy to collaborate with people with disabilities but have very little spare time to work with them.
We are looking for solutions which are helping the life of people who live with disabilities.
These solutions must be based on high tech digital technologies, like 3D printing, laser cutting, sewing, CNC milling, Arduino or other open source microcontroller based electronic systems.
The main reason for being open source is that the end product should be freely distributed as a digital schematic for other makerspaces to use.

Commitment

We provide our facilities and network.
Our makerspace have an extensive inventory of machines, tutors and partners who can offer equipment, materials, expertise and other forms of support
A crucial part of the challenge is the communication between the makers and people living with disabilities.
This is a major issue we can help the participants with, we can give them consultancy on how to handle communication and cooperation between the parties.
We also offer them our extensive network of experts, followers, and our distribution channels and media channels.
Our organization and our experts have prior experience with both groups and we have already successfully collaborated with the parties and managed to facilitate cooperation between them on events and small workshops, university classes etc. We want the challenge to make the ideas that until today stayed only on paper to be realized and be able to change and improve everybody's life and skills. 

We have many companies in our network who are willing to commit from their CSR Corporate Social Responsibility budget to help projects like the ones this challenge promotes to finance. They are always asking us how they can support socially responsible projects around us, however until now they did not committed themselves. If we can show them working prototypes as a result of these challenges they will be more motivated to contribute.



Compliance

We fully comply with the ethical standards described in our appendix. Many of the principles echo our own maker ethics.

The Challenge Owner

Makerspace.hu

A space for collaboration