
Core values and ideas
MakeLab is an international diverse community of makers, innovators, entrepreneurs, technology enthusiasts and creators, as well as a network of physical centers (makerspaces) established in order to encourage and inspire ideas and practices evolving around innovation, technology, creativity, and collaborative work, in the spirit of free will, open sources and time sharing. The network’s main goal is to promote inspiration, collaboration and action and to provide an infrastructure of means, knowledge and knowhow for anyone who wants to create, make, experiment, research, acquire skills and develop, and to do so while connecting with others in the community or volunteering to help others, and sharing knowledge and skill. The MakeLab includes a large diverse and supportive community of all ages and backgrounds: makers, entrepreneurs, inventors, artists, educators and tech enthusiasts. The MakeLab is also an international network of physical centers (makerspaces), where various tools, machinery, and fabrication facilities are freely available to the general public. History: The MakeLab community was founded in 2012 by Avi Ostfeld, an Israeli high-tech entrepreneur, investor, maker and mentor in the educational technology and innovation fields.
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Events

i-FAIR
The innovation fellowship for aspiring inventors and researchers (i-FAIR Israel Nigeria) is a platform committed to supporting Innovative Nigerian youths in transforming their ideas into inventions that will drive inclusive and viable industrialization in Africa. The initiative was created through the partnership of the Embassy of Israel, Skill G Innovation, and the Nigerian Government to establish an innovation ecosystem in Nigeria.
The goal of this initiative is to identify potentials, as well as the gaps between prospects and successes, and subsequently bridge those gaps.

Isolierband
The Isolierband Robotics Competition challenges hobbyists to build a robot that can follow a line to the furthest point on a track as fast as possible. The competition is built as a "race" between robots on different lanes of the same type (action...action... big fun... ). Some advanced tracks have some "special features" - see Isolierband Robotics Competition rules documents and some tracks and guidelines from previous seasons. However... if your robot can follow a line... you will be able to participate... Each robot competes on several types of tracks.
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The headquarters crew
Avi Ostfeld
An Israeli hi-tech entrepreneur, investor, social activist, founder, and leader of the MakeLab Network community and innovation centers. Avi founded and managed CastUP Inc. (sold to NDS/CISCO), he is active in technological fields including robotics, IoT, Making, and social entrepreneurship, teaching engineers in academic programs in Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic college of engineering and he is the chairman of rapid prototyping branch at AEAI. Avi is also a natural Maker and a creator of many inspirational installations, he likes physical programming, motorcycle trips, and innovation of any kind.
Yuval Dimri
Yuval is a developer, programmer, inventor, and maker. Yuval has great knowledge of robotics, product creation, and rapid prototyping. Behind him are many projects involving cutting-edge technology, computer vision, 3D mapping, ROS, AI, Microcontrollers, and more.
Yuval masters multiple 3d modeling tools, programming languages, PCB development, and other different digital fabrication tools, as well as great experience with various CNC machines such as 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC routers, and more.
Yuval is a member of a robotics team in his hometown for the past four years, being the head of both the programming crew and the 3D modeling crew, as well as the main robot driver, and a presenter. Yuval has a lot of experience in project management, autonomous robots development, and drone development.
Saron
Paz
Saron is a MakeLab Network Global senior team member, he is a multi-talented inventor, a mentor for many making groups throughout Israel, an experimental designer, and a co-ideologist for many think tanks. Saron is part of ForReal Team, an interaction studio which create and designs physical-digital experiences, various interactive robotic installations and interventions in the public space in Israel and around the world. Saron teaches gifted students in primary school, secondary school, and up to advanced degree students in the academia in Israel and serves as a partner in many ventures in the field of both formal and informal Makery education. Among his many talents, we can mention his ability to find particularly creative solutions to difficult problems, his uncompromising pursuit of realizing ideas that those around him take a long time to grasp, and his interpersonal ability to find a common language with almost everyone.
Tamar Ostfeld
Tamar is a MakeLab Israel volunteer and MakeLab Network Global team member, with knowledge in all of MakeLab's technical and organizational Fields.
Including a deep understanding and experience in 3D printing, laser cutting, and other digital fabrication methods. Tamar has an outstanding ability to teach and explain, she is teaching at the MakeLab in different fields.
Tamar is the CEO of two startups, one in the bicycle field and one in the VR education field. Her ventures won first and second prizes in three huge national and international startup competitions. For the 3rd year, Tamar is also the head of marketing, PR, and community in her robotic team, as the main presenter of the team in competitions.
Oh yeah, and she is 17 year old.
Zvika Marfeld
Zvika is a MakeLab Network Global senior team member, he is a rehabilitated programmer, who crossed the lines and dipped his feet in the cool and pleasant waters of the river of hardware development, never to return. Zvika currently teaches technological innovation, animatronics, the Internet of Things and a variety of other topics at leading universities in Israel, as well as together with Saron in a variety of educational projects from school age to the academy. Zvika is also a member of the ForReal Team, which creates and builds experiential interactive art works in Israel and around the world, and harnesses his abilities to a variety of client projects in various fields, from experimental art to prototypes for start-ups. One day, Zvika dreams of forming a robotic orchestra led by one player and performing with it his songs (which are yet to be written) around the world.
Leon Maryasin
Leon is a MakeLab Network Global team member, he is a master builder that can take any mechanical project from start to end in s simple and quick way - ideation, 3D design, rapid prototyping, small-scale fabrication, and full industrial manufacturing. He can go from digital modeling and 3D printing to physical welding and bending in a heartbeat. He loves scavenging and reusing old parts.
Leon has an amazing intuition for people and processes and can help in solving any systematic problem - a clogged thinking process, a broken workflow, and even chronic back pain. And most importantly, he has a huge heart, a sensitive eye, and a wish to help anyone in true need.
Just make sure you don’t overload him with unnecessary complexity or bureaucracy otherwise he will drop his hammer and go for a walk until the complexity solves itself :)
Nir
Badt
Nir is a MakeLab Network Global team member, the man behind technology and art, an artist and maker in the soul. Has excessive knowledge in electronics, mechanics, and software, Bachelor of physics and economy, Master of industrial design. A resident of the Burning Man Festival. Created and installed many art installations that included complex mechanical designs and interactive properties, based on sensors and programmable controllers.
Nir is a specialist in project assessment, multidisciplinary systems definition, electric power systems, energy consumption, and battery systems administration. He is well oriented on sustainable, environment-friendly engineering in the Agri-tech area, has great social communication skills – a people person.
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Feel free to come visit, join us, create and share with others the joy of making.
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