The TIMARA makerspace provides students with the tools and space to learn about electronics and interactive media, to tinker, and to design and fabricate whatever they can imagine.
![Work benches, bins, and makerspace equipment including a 3D printer, mill, embroidery machine, sewing machine, knitting machine, and laser cutter pictured in the TIMARA makerspace.](https://timara.oberlin.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_2640-1024x683.jpg)
Courses taught in the makerspace touch on themes including computer aided design, digital fabrication, electronics, electronic textiles, sound art installation, new interfaces for musical expression, and human cyborgs, among others.
![Students gathered around work benches in the TIMARA makerspace working on a sound installation featuring solar powered raindrop circuits on clear umbrellas.](https://timara.oberlin.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/agsm2.jpg)
The makerspace is home to a craft cutter which we use to make flexible circuits and vinyl stickers, a desktop mill for making your own circuit boards, a 3D printer, an embroidery machine, a sewing machine, and a laser cutter.
![Close up of TIMARA makerspace equipment and supplies including a craft cutter, iMac, desktop mill, 3D printer, embroidery machine, and sewing machine.](https://timara.oberlin.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_2647-1024x683.jpg)
You can stop by the makerspace for a soldering or Cricut craft cutter workshop, to learn a new skill, or to work on a project for a lesson, a class, or just for fun.
![Students gathered around a purple piece of vinyl that one student is weeding while other document in the TIMARA makerspace.](https://timara.oberlin.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_7894-1024x768.jpg)
The space is also home to the department’s undergraduate research lab, the Crafting Sound Lab.
![Students gathered around mesh work benches, various projects in progress, inlcuding an acrylic octopus.](https://timara.oberlin.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_8002-1024x768.jpg)