"Can a bird leave a cage?" Viren Vaz shoots a rhetoric when asked to elucidate the basic difference between a birdhouse and a cage. "When you make a birdhouse, you are actually putting a nesting spot for a bird, hoping that it will like it and live in it," shares the city-based software professional who moonlights as a tinkerer, conducting carpentry and woodwork workshops. This Saturday, Vaz will host a birdhouse-building workshop at Maker’s Asylum.

Get ready to build a bird house