Makerspaces

Networks and Conventions

• ISAM: The International Symposium of Academic Makerspaces holds annual meeting for the academic makerspace community
• Rapid + TCT (registration)
• Open Sauce 2025 July 18-25, 2025
• RobArch
  • RobArch 2024
  • RobArch 2026 will be in Denmark

Forums

• Student Shop Managers Consortium

Bay Area Makerspaces (non-university)

• Humanmade

College Maker Spaces

See also:

• Best Maker Schools 2022 (Make)

• Make's Makerspace Directory: A comprehensive guide to the growing community of makerspaces around the globe

• University of California Berkeley

  • Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
  • ME Student Shop
  • CITRIS Invention Lab
  • Cory Hall Student Workshop
  • Supernode
  • UC Berkeley Library Makerspace
  • Berkeley Art Studio offers classes in ceramics, photography, drawing, painting, design, printmaking, crafting & textile arts. Registration is open to the public.

• Duke University

  • The Foundry

• Carnegie Mellon

  • TechSpark
  • DFAB

• California College of the Arts

  • Digital Fabrication Studio,

• Case Western Reserve University

  • think[box]

• Georgia Tech

  • Invention Studio

• Harvard

  • i-Lab

• MIT:

  • MakerWorkshop

• NYU

  • Maker Space (tour video)

• Purdue University

  • Bechtel Innovation Design Center

• Rice University

  • Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK)

• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

  • Branam and Kreme Innovation Centers

• Stanford:

  • Product Realization Lab

• University of Colorado Boulder

  • Idea Forge

• University of Washington

  • CoMotion MakerSpace
  • College of Built Environments Fabrication Labs

• University of California, San Diego

  • EnVision Maker Studio

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Illinois MakerLab

• University of Louisville

  • AMIST

• University of Maryland

  • Terrapin Works

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • Taubman College Digital Fabrication and Robotics Lab (FABLab)
  • Duderstadt Center

• University of Southern California

  • The Garage

• University of Texas at Austin

  • Texas Inventionworks

• Woodbury University, Burbank

  • Digital Fabrication Lab

• Yale

  • Yale CEID

Maker Spaces (for profit or non-profit)

• NextFab, Philadelphia (article on Wikipedia)
• High-Tech Workshop Munich (Tour video)
  • Ultimakers
  • Laser cutters
  • powder coating, sandblasting
  • CNC milling, Manual mill, welding, water jet,
  • Wood shop,
  • Sewing machines, embroidery machine
  • Electronics

Public Library Maker Spaces

• Prince William Public Library (Tour video)
  • Dremel 3D40 and 3D20 printers
  • Loom
  • laminator, button makers
  • photo box
  • sewing machines