1,200 square meters on two floors, 43 high-tech machines, specialized software, and courses – the MakerSpace at Munich Urban Colab offers startups, DIY enthusiasts, makers, and creatives a well-equipped infrastructure. Garching counterpartOpened in 2015, the MakerSpace at Munich Urban Colab offers a woodworking workshop, 3D printers, and laser cutters for processing all materials and creating new shapes. There's also a textile and electrical processing workshop, both located on the second floor.
In the Munich Urban Colab In addition to startups, established companies, creatives and scientists also work together on innovative products, intelligent technologies and services for the city of the future.
The IoT laboratory “Urban IoT Edge”
Many startup teams develop products in the field of sensor technology and robotics or IoT applications, but they have little time and money to acquire the appropriate sensors for their prototypes. The Urban IoT Edge within the MakerSpace aims to enable these startups and makers to implement their ideas and quickly get sensor prototypes measuring, driving, or running. This equipment saves the teams time and money and reduces the risk for young startups.
The space offers work surfaces and a catalog of technical components, including various types of sensors for collecting data, communication modules that transmit data to the cloud, and IoT-enabled devices such as cameras. The hardware is provided by MakerSpace partner companies. The space will also host courses and makeathons—hackathons in which hardware prototypes are built in a short period of time. Urban IoT Edge is already proving popular: startups, including Angsa Robotics, successfully build and improve their robots here.
Florian Küster, Managing Director of MakerSpace, said about the opening:
"With our new MakerSpace at the Munich Urban Colab, we now have a place in the heart of the city where ideas become prototypes and new products. The MakerSpace is open to the public, and I invite everyone to visit the workshop."
Wanted: Students with creative ideas
The Zeidler Research Foundation and the Hans Sauer Foundation provide more than 1,500 students with free access to the MakerSpaces in Munich and Garching every year.
