Maker Spaces in the US and Canada

San Francisco Bay Area

Resources

If you need to make, below are maker spaces that you might consider using.

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Peninsula

• Foster City Library
• Foothill College Makerspace - Office enviroment. Helix laser cutter. Several 3D printers. Software on computers. Dremel CNC machines.
• South San Francisco Public Library - 3D printers, sewing, Arduino
• Kitchentown Central - makerspace for food startups in San Mateo

Greater Bay Area

• Chimera - Sebastopol. Small hobbyist space.
• Idea Fab Labs - Santa Cruz
• Cyber Garage - Marin. K-12 focus.
• Benicia Makerspace

SF City

• Noisebridge - SF. Open to public. Run as a consensus organization.
• Human Made - Makerspace and advanced manufacturing training center
• Sequoia Fabrica - An intergenerational community workshop in the San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood fostering the next generation of makers, designers and craftspeople
• Box Shop SF - sheet metal and sculpture artists
• ManyLabs - Co-working space
• PEV Works - Specialized towards Personal Electric Vehicles with a light makerspace.
• Queerious Labs - experimental art and technology creative space and community workshop
• Double Union is a hacker/maker space and community workshop in San Francisco.
• PEV - personal electric vehicle workshop

East Bay

• The Crucible - Metalworking
• Ace Makerspace
• Robot Garden in Livermore
• The Compound Gallery
• Lower 48 - small wood shop
• Mothership Hacker Moms - Berkeley
• Circuit Launch - electronics, Berkeley
• Girls Garage - design and construction school for girls and gender-expansive youth ages 9-18
• Sudo Room
• Bay Area Maker Farm - an outdoor workspace and urban farm in Alameda
• Counter Culture Labs - A Community Supported Microbiology Maker Space
• Hayward Techies - a Meetup group that wants to start a makerspace in Hayward

South Bay

• Hacker Dojo - Santa Clara. Closed during COVID; expected to reopen in the future.
• Maker Nexus - Sunnyvale
• School of Visual Philosophy - 425 Auzerais, 95126. An office with cnc machines in it.
• Coyote Grange - South San Jose community room, summer maker classes. Wants to increase the program.
• Bio Curious - community lab space for biology
• Paw Print Prototyping - a hackerspace

Networking Groups of Makers locally

• Cupertinker
• Techie/Maker Families
• HomeBrew Robotics
• Makers San Jose Meetup
• Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces
• Nation of Makers - sponsored by the government

Mid West USA

Illinois

• River City Labs in Peoria.

Minnesota

• Twin Cities Maker they run The Hack Factory in Minneapolis
• Milwaukee Maker Space have some good videos on how the shop runs.

Ohio

• The Manufactory in Cincinnati.

Michigan

• Maker Works in Ann Arbor.

Wisconsin

• Milwaukee Makerspace

Eastern USA

Baltimore

• Open Works
• The Foundery

Virginia

• Nova Labs, Reston
• RVA Maker Guild, Richmond

Pittsburg

• Pittsburg Resources

Connecticut

• Fairfield County Makers Guild
• NESIT makerspace Meridan

South Carolina

• ReForge A nice space located in a shopping mall.

Florida

• Tampa Hacker Space

Maryland

• Frederick, Maryland

South Eastern USA

NWLA Maker Space in Bossier, Louisiana

Model City Makers, Tennessee

Western USA

Arizona

Gangplank

New Mexico

Quelabs in Albuquerque

Northern California

Truckee Roundhouse

Southern California

Urban Workshop in Costa Mesa.