Saad is a Singapore-based geek, maker, and coffee epicure. Co-founder of SpudnikLab, a startup that works to address the digital divide through digital skills education and low-cost technologies. He initiated EdibleMakerspace that brings together art and citizenScience through food and fermentation. Saad also initiated SalvageGarden, a non-profit makerspace for assistive technology. Saad serves on the advisory councils of the Global Innovation Gathering, Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH), and r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation.

Currently working on:

SalvageGarden Assistive Makerspace
- Co-creation of assistive devices
- Volunteer driven skills sharing
- Weekly participatory sessions at a shared makerspace in an accessible public library
- Singapore chapter of the e-nable network
- Outreach and awareness of opensource and digital fabrication for assistive tech
Edible Makerspace
- Fermentation of art-science conversation
- Kombucha SCOBY based vegan leather
- Mud based microbial fuel cells
- OpenScience Hardware and tardigrade hunting field trips
SpudnikLab
- Addressing the DigitalDivide through Frugal Innovation and appropriate tech
- D.Lit: Digital Skills Building Toolkit (for facilitators)
- Science-Kit (Smartphone oriented set of low-cost science education tools)

Previous projects:

Fab23 BhutanChallenge Project BrailleRap

Saad Chinoy on LinkedIn: #fab23 #bhutanchallenge #opensource #dzongkha #indexbraille #reprap…
Computers against Covid

Bridging the Digital Divide, One Tech Device at a Time - What Are You Doing SG?
SCOBY Leather at NTU CCA IdeasFest3: Food Futures

NTU CCA IdeasFest 2023 FOOD Eat. Secure. Sustain.
Wearable assistive IoT device for live theatre performance audiences

Exploring how technology makes the arts more inclusive!
Tech for Good Hackathon series

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photo credit: Paweł / GIG

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Email: saad []at[] ediblemakerspace.com

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