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

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