About the Space
Conejo Valley Makerspace is here to serve the Southern California, Conejo Valley area. We support and embrace hands-on Do-It-Yourself and making through classes, meetups, membership, and community where engineers, artists, students, and entrepreneurs can make ideas into real things.
Weekly Open House every Thursday at 7PM
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If you can't make it in person, launch the online meetup and attend virtually.
Learn About Us
Some useful links
CVMake is a non-profit, and all membership fees and donations go directly towards renting the space or buying equipment/supplies for events to support our mission. Nobody is getting paid, it’s all volunteers.
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See our Meetup group or the events calendar for other events and classes.
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See the Membership page to join.
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Sign up for Mailing list to stay informed.
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Sign up for our Slack Group to chat with the community.
The Meeting Room
A welcoming third place
The Meeting Room is the lively center at the makerspace. Here we host meetings and events like Tech Tuesday, classes on Arduino, how to program a FPGA processor, watch movies and play D&D.
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Comfy couch
- Big table
- Wall mounted 4k smart TV / computer monitor
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Some pretty comfy chairs​
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Many regular chairs
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Panoramic windows
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Access to a large parking lot​ to view Vandenburg rocket launches
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Bookshelf and goodies display
The Electronics Room
For detailed clean work
The Electronics Room next to the meeting room is filled with useful tools, workspaces, radio equipment, machines, and test equipment.
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Motorized sit-stand workbenches
- Hand tools
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Soldering stations
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Microsopes​
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3D Printers
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Sewing machines
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A small window plus lots of lighting
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A color laser paper printer
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Wishlist: Laser cutter, Cricut-type craft cutter
The Rollup Room
For messy but precise work
The Rollup Room is where the messy metal, painty, sawdusty, projects are put together. A large rollup door and commercial parking lot allows for good ventilation and noisy machines and people.
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18 foot ceilings
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Floor-to-ceiling roll-up door
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Metal & wood mill & lathe (not CNC but includes digital measuring)
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Large workbench
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MIG welder
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Plasma cutter
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Storage shelves
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Wishlist: CNC machine
Life Support Systems
Feed your cravings
In addition to our equipment and social environs, we set aside space to take care of the necessities and feed your cravings.
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Small refrigerator
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Coffee pod machine
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Microwave
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Snacks
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Drinks
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A private bathroom
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More storage for cleaning supplies
Ham Radio Station
A permanent radio resource
We have an official FCC amateur radio club license and a radio shack set up in our Electronics Room. Some of our members are Ham radio operators at the Technician, General and Expert levels and look forward to building out a local resource for radio enthusiasts and newbies alike.
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Club license, KN6CVM
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HF Radio
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VHF/UHF radio
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Ability to host classes
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Get-on-the-air events
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Ham radio experimentation
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Wishlist: Roof antennas, local repeater, digital mesh network, APRS station