# Makerspace

Concept · [Programs and community](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/community)

Also called: maker space, hackerspace, fabrication lab, digital fabrication

A shared workshop with tools such as 3D printers, laser cutters and electronics benches that members can use. [Founders](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) who build [physical products](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hard-tech) use one to make early [prototypes](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/prototype) without buying the machines.

**For example:** A [founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) designing a bike light prints ten versions of the case at a makerspace before paying a [factory](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-factory) for a mold.

## Connects to (12)

- [Fab Lab Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/fab-lab-tulsa): A nonprofit makerspace in Tulsa.
- [Prototype](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/prototype): An early, rough version of a product made to test an idea or show others what you mean.
- [Hard tech](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hard-tech): Companies whose product rests on physical engineering or new science, such as machines, materials or devices.
- [Open source hardware](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/open-source-hardware): Physical products whose design files are published so anyone can study, change, make and sell the design or hardware based on it.
- [Tom Love Innovation Hub](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tom-love-innovation-hub): The University of Oklahoma's innovation center in Norman.
- [Raspberry Pi](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/raspberry-pi): A small, low-cost computer on a single board, used for learning, prototypes and sensors.
- [Arduino](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/arduino): An open-source electronics platform of small boards and free software for building devices that read sensors and control lights and motors.
- [Belle Isle Library](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/belle-isle-library): A Metro Library branch in Oklahoma City that reopened in 2022 after a renovation that added study rooms, two large meeting rooms and a…
- [Project 3810](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/project-3810): A product innovation hub in a former factory in Oklahoma City, with a makerspace, shop spaces, workspaces and incubator companies.
- [WOMPA](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/wompa): A creative compound in a historic Tulsa warehouse with coworking, private offices, studios, galleries and six event venues for small to…
- [Idea Forge Foundation](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/idea-forge-foundation): A 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation in Oklahoma City that supports Oklahoma's innovators, entrepreneurs and creators.
- [Maker Faire Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/maker-faire-tulsa): A yearly family-friendly show and tell in Tulsa where engineers, artists, scientists and crafters show what they have made.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/makerspace