A challenges-driven Innovation Ecosystem.

Rapid prototyping within your reach: validate your ideas seamlessly. Ready to innovate? Partner with our multidisciplinary team.

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Agile Development

Plan

Focused on client needs, we set clear goals to create efficient prototypes aligned with real-world challenges. Planning is flexible to ensure agile and adaptable solutions.

Develop

Functional prototypes with fast cycles, allowing companies and institutions to test concrete ideas and adjust based on feedback. Methodological collaborative work accelerates innovation.

Analyze

We continuously analyze results to validate prototypes and ensure they meet client demands, guiding improvements and fast decisions in the development process through agile iterations.

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Lips Maker

Who we are

LIPS Maker is a UFMG laboratory dedicated to innovation, prototyping, and technology development. We act as an innovation hub, supporting companies, researchers, departments, and institutions in validating innovations and developing prototypes.

What we do

We are dedicated to fostering innovation and creativity
through hands-on experiences developed with scientific methodology, providing our clients with practical applicability to validate their value proposition through functional prototypes.

Our mission

To meet the demands of internal and external clients by enabling students and professionals to develop new products and solutions that bridge the gap
between academia and industry.

Our vision

To make LIPS Maker an ever-evolving innovation hub, a benchmark in connecting academia with industries aligned with the demands of our community and the market.

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Together we design the future

Scholarship holders

Projects

Specialties

Collaborators

Impressora 3D do LIPS imprimindo uma peça cilíndrica laranja sobre a mesa de impressão

Mãos medindo uma placa de circuito com as pontas de prova de um multímetro

Pessoa desenhando esboços de projeto sobre a mesa

Dois estudantes observando um equipamento em uma bancada do laboratório

Bancada de eletrônica do LIPS com sensores, ferramentas e componentes sobre base de corte

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Why validate and develop a prototype?

Acting proactively in problem-solving and opportunity generation is vital; however, turning an idea into a product that truly creates value requires methodology, technical support, and market testing. Validating an innovative product demands entrepreneurial vision, experience, financial resources, and networking.