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WHAT IS TEKNIKIO?

Teknikio is a Brooklyn based electronics company specialising in educational engineering kits. We currently produce “make-it-yourself” project kits and craftable electronic parts. Our electronics are easy to attach to “everyday materials” such as paper, fabric, and cardboard, allowing the user to reimagine their world with just a few basic tools. Remaking and recycling is a key part of our design process. We believe that the best ideas usually come from (almost) nothing.

Consider each kit as an ingredient pack for you personal toolbox, allowing you to experiment with new ideas and work with (not against!) electronics. Each of our kits combines engineering with craft and design. We feel that knowledge of basic crafts is a life skill; future generations should have the basic know-how of how to sew a button back on a jacket, or how to turn recycled cardboard into the coolest new toy robot.

FOUNDER

Sibel Deren Guler is a researcher, engineer, designer, and educator based in New York. Designing accessible tools to improve the quality of life motivates her work. In addition to leading Teknikio, she adjuncts at Parsons School of Design, is a co-founder of the FatcatFablab makerspace in New York City, and author of Crafting Wearables: Blending Technology with Fashion.

QUICK FACTS

Founded: 2014
Founder: Sibel Deren Guler
Flagship Product: Activating Origami
Ages: 8 - 108
Headquarters: Brooklyn, NY
Number of Products to Date: 17
Countries sold to: 36
Learning Partners: NY Hall of Science, MOUSE, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, SciGirls, Camp Invention, Intel, Make Media, Teachers College Columbia University, East Carolina State University, Society for Contemporary Craft, Cooper Hewitt Museum, & Boolean Girl