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“MiniBuild3D, is a brainchild of duo Archit
Borkar & Rukma Bhonsule. Archit is doing his final year in Mechanical Engineering from Goa College of Engineering while Rukma Bhonsule is doing her graduation from Goa Engineering college in Electronics and Telecommunication.
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By IG Team
MINIBUILD3D A BRAINCHILD OF ARCHIT & RUKMA Both have been working together in many projects right from the First Year of their college and then finally decided to enter into a partnership with the startup called "MiniBuild3D" that deals with Design and 3D printing. Archit handles the Technical part of it while Rukma takes care of marketing and social media. The Incredible Goa team approached the duo to find out more about their journey and these are the excerpts of the interview conducted with them. IG - Please tell us more about yourself and your startup. ARCHIT: I am very passionate about this field of Engineering & Product design where I always find myself involved and working on projects by ways of re-engineering things or working on them such as Smart Watches, Smart Switch Controller, etc and that is how I entered this field of 3D Printing and having a 3D Printer is really a useful yet resourceful tool for a CAD Designer because it helps project the imagination 40 / INCREDIBLE GOA / JULY 2022
and brings it to life. How a 3D printer works is that by melting the material which is a polymer filament and this is printed by using 3-axis which is done in a sequential method thereby creating the model. RUKMA: We have been friends from First Year at the College, and together we worked on many small projects including making a Smart watch out of a Coffee Lid and we required 3D printed parts, but back then we didn't find someone who helped students as 3D printing was expensive and inaccessible to the student community, so we ourselves decided to get a 3D Printer, and here I suggested the idea of coming up with a Startup to help all the other students and the student community in their personal and professional projects. IG - How did your background in Engineering help you with the startup that you are working at the moment? ARCHIT: Initially I was introduced to this segment and field of CAD which is basically
Computer – Aided Design through my Curriculum and I took up some freelancing jobs, a few internships, and been designing for Startups. I have been working on developing the solar structures, AI Products and CAD was always the basic ingredient of all these. Before making the final product we make prototypes on 3D printers since it is one of the most economical ways of creating the prototypes even in small quantities. It is faster quicker and fully customisable. RUKMA: I am more towards the Creative side of the Startup where I look after the marketing and the graphic designing part of the startup. IG - Name the projects that you have worked on, How did you think about this 3D Printing Start-up? ARCHIT: Basically it was my idea to create a few projects in my day to day life, I took part in a competition which was held at the national level by “Bolt IOT” where they conduct a competition called “Innovation Challenge” and my idea was to create Wall mounted Switch
Controller that would operate on the basis of voice command remotely, or Controlled through the Smartphone. Using the smart phones voice command feature of “Ok, Google!” I could control my fan and lights at my home. These are the type of projects that I have been a part of and have also won 3rd place in this particular competition itself. These are the types of projects that I find myself drawn to, But during those initial days I didn't have a 3D Printer we used to work with the parts made of cardboards. The prototypes would work but the longevity of keeping the prototype was less as they were not reliable as compared to a specifically 3D printed model. This is how the idea of the 3D printing start-up came to mind, as building projects for the students who really relied a lot on these parts that needed to be crafted and couldn't procure them otherwise. As engineering students need to fabricate the parts for their final year projects, this is how the brainchild behind our 3D
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