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* [[Lower 48 Woodshop]] - small wood shop | * [[Lower 48 Woodshop]] - small wood shop | ||
* [http://mothership.hackermoms.org/ Mothership Hacker Moms] - Berkeley | * [http://mothership.hackermoms.org/ Mothership Hacker Moms] - Berkeley | ||
Revision as of 11:48, 7 October 2025
San Francisco Bay Area
Resources
If you need to make, below are maker spaces that you might consider using.
If you need a job in the maker community of SF... SFMade Job Board
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.
- Double Union - SF. Makerspace centered on women, nonbinary, and transmasc.
- 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 - Emeryville
- Lower 48 Woodshop - 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
Central California
- Made Studio in Sacramento
Western USA
Arizona
New Mexico
Quelabs in Albuquerque
Northern California
Southern California
Urban Workshop in Costa Mesa.
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
Eastern USA
Baltimore
Virginia
Pittsburg
Connecticut
South Carolina
- ReForge A nice space located in a shopping mall.
Florida
Maryland
South Eastern USA
NWLA Maker Space in Bossier, Louisiana
Model City Makers, Tennessee
