Industrial Design Seminar and Competition (INDISCO) is a design competition of industrial products that also packaged with a seminar organized by the student commitee of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Diponegoro. INDISCO first held in 2009 and on this fifth implementation, INDISCO 5th will be packed with events, namely product design competition, the national seminar, and call for papers. To that end, they invite participants from various universities in Indonesia, both public and private, to follow the INDISCO 5th theme this time for product design Competition “Automata Toys For Edu-Plaything”. The purpose of the INDISCO 5th is to develop student’s creativity and innovation in designing products toys as part of the world as well as the creative industry strengthens the cooperation between students across colleges in Indonesia. Outline of the competition was held in two stages, namely stage 1 (Selection) and stage 2 (Final).
Product Development and Innovation and Laboratory sent two delegates to the final stages and went to Semarang as finalist. The final stage held from September, 24th 2013 untill September, 25th 2013. As results, one of our delegate won 3rd Winner in this competition with product named Auto Gamelan. This delagate consist of two Industrial Engineering student batch 2011, Alif Kurniatmojo and Novindra Ades, and one Mechanical Engineering student batch 2011. Auto Gamelan used Automata Toys principle so this toy can be moved manually and worked by specific moves. This idea came up because they wanted to give toy that attractive and also educative to kids.
