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Not-for-profit · Since 2018

If you can make it, you can change something.

CoMakers Africa runs makerspaces across Nigeria — shared workshops, shared tools, open to anyone with something to build. Come and use them.

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What we offer

Three ways in, depending on what you need

Shared workspaces

Fully-equipped makerspaces with tools for woodworking, metalwork, electronics, textiles and digital fabrication.

Training programmes

Workshops and courses from basic tool safety through advanced fabrication and the business of making.

Engineering training

Train your engineers, wherever they are.

CAD modelling in Fusion 360, Inventor or SolidWorks. Pressure vessel design. ASME codes. Technical writing. Taking an idea through to a product.

For universities, secondary schools, engineering firms, government bodies and individuals. Live online anywhere in Nigeria, or at your site. Book online and your quote and payment details arrive straight away.

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CAD Modelling for EngineersFusion 360 · Inventor · SolidWorks
Pressure Vessel DesignShells, heads, nozzles, reinforcement
Working to ASME CodesFind it, read it, prove you applied it
Technical Writing for EngineersReports, specs, procedures
From Idea to ProductPrototype, manufacture, cost

Our makerspaces

Workshops you can walk into

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Flagship

Owerri, Imo

Owerri Innovation Hub

Our flagship space: 5,000 sq ft of workshop with CNC machines, 3D printers, laser cutters and a full electronics lab.

Coming up

Book onto a workshop

All workshops

Sun, 16 August

Laser Cutter Induction

The two-hour induction required before you can book the laser cutter unsupervised.

₦30,000

Sat, 22 August

3D Printing for Beginners

From a drawing on screen to an object in your hand. No experience needed.

₦50,000

Sat, 29 August

Welding Fundamentals

Writing

From the workshop

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What a makerspace actually costs to run

People ask us how much it costs to open a makerspace. That is the wrong question — opening one is the cheap part.

Five machines worth learning first

New members often want to start on the most impressive tool in the room. Here is a better order.

Ready to start making?

Whether you have twenty years of workshop experience or have never held a soldering iron, there’s a bench here for you.

Become a member Support our work

If you can make it, you can change something.

Three ways in, depending on what you need

Shared workspaces

Training programmes

Train your engineers, wherever they are.

Workshops you can walk into

Owerri Innovation Hub

Book onto a workshop

Laser Cutter Induction

3D Printing for Beginners

Welding Fundamentals

From the workshop

What a makerspace actually costs to run

Five machines worth learning first

Ready to start making?

Space development

Abuja Creative Lab

Port Harcourt Maker Center

Buying tools in Nigeria without getting burned

If you can make it, you can change something.

Three ways in, depending on what you need

Train your engineers, wherever they are.

Workshops you can walk into

Book onto a workshop

From the workshop

Ready to start making?

CoMakers Africa by the numbers