Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
InvenTABLE: A kid-safe power tool for cutting cardboard!
Home: Pennsylvania, United States
InvenTABLE is your ticket to a world of cardboard crafting made simple. Engineered with kid safety in mind, this tool is here to revolutionize the way you work with cardboard. Say goodbye to tedious, time-consuming methods of the past (we love you scissors, but cardboard isn't your forte). InvenTABLE cuts through cardboard in a fraction of the time and effort that kids take with currently available tools. Come check out this product that was in the top 0.1% of all Kickstarter campaigns ever!
https://itsinventable.com/
Maker
InvenTABLE, Inc.
InvenTABLE is a construction toy company for kids ages 8-12. Their products aim to teach design, engineering, and fabrication using materials that are already readily available in homes and schools.
https://itsinventable.com/pages/about-usWhat Inspired You to Make This?
Hi! We’re Kausi (“cow-see”) and Max (“max”) - two graduates from the Integrated Product Design Masters program at the University of Pennsylvania. As product designers, we understand the value of quick and rapid prototyping - it allows you to understand how your concepts might work in the real world, validate whether it addresses the problem you’re trying to solve, and make improvements. It’s a super fun process that involves building things with your hands and with the resources that you have around you. As toy designers, we see the value of this process in teaching kids not only problem solving skills, but also how to bring their creative ideas to life. However, we quickly realized that the tools that make rapid prototyping quick and easy for adults are not accessible by kids - they are either too dangerous or too complex. Cutting cardboard is so tedious, they prefer to not use it as a material at all. We’re here to fix that!
