Tools for real projects
Members use shared fabrication, prototyping, electronics, and repair tools in a community workspace.
About our nonprofit
East Bay Makers Club makes technology more human, local, and accessible through shared tools, hands-on education, and community programs in Berkeley.
Our mission
We create a place where people watch ideas take shape, build confidence through hands-on work, and find belonging by making, repairing, testing, and imagining together.
Our identity
Community Technology & Creative Education owns and operates eastbaymakersclub.com and does business as East Bay Makers Club. The organization operates the East Bay Makers Club workshop at 1619 San Pablo Ave. in Berkeley.
Community benefit
East Bay Makers Club is a nonprofit community workshop operated by Community Technology & Creative Education. We make practical technology, shared tools, and hands-on learning more accessible to people throughout Berkeley and the East Bay.
Membership revenue supports the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the shared workshop. Charitable donations, grants, volunteers, and community partnerships extend that work through free public programs, subsidized education, shared project materials, accessible learning opportunities, and fabrication services for community-serving organizations.
Our programs include free public build and repair nights, practical technology education, tool onboarding, visiting lectures, hands-on workshops, and collaborative programs developed with local schools, nonprofits, and community groups.
We measure our work through program attendance, instructional hours, class completion, free and subsidized participation, repairs and projects completed, volunteer service, community partnerships, and participant feedback.
Our goal: help people gain useful skills, complete meaningful projects, repair things that matter, learn beside others, and participate in a durable local community built around making and sharing knowledge.
What we do
Members use shared fabrication, prototyping, electronics, and repair tools in a community workspace.
Classes, workshops, and tool onboarding help people gain practical confidence and use equipment safely.
Build nights, repair events, lectures, and selected workshops welcome the wider community into making and learning.
People bring different experiences, help one another through stuck points, and make the workshop more useful together.