University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Open Hours
Want to come in and make something? We can help show you how!

Sundays: 1pm - 6pm
Mondays - Thursdays: 5pm - 9pm
Skeuomorph Press
Skeuomorph Press lets you learn, set type, and print with printing presses, typewriters, and more.

Sunday: 1-5pm
Monday - Wednesday: 6 - 9pm
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Open Hours

Sundays: 1-6pm
*Summer holiday closures:
May 28, June 18, & July 2nd

Skeuomorph Press

Sundays: 1-5pm
*Summer hours starting in June; closed until then

Open Hours

Sundays: 1-6pm
*Summer holiday closures:
May 28, June 18, & July 2nd

Skeuomorph Press

Sunday: 1-5pm
*Summer hours starting in June; closed until then

WELCOME

The Champaign-Urbana (CU) Community Fab Lab is a makerspace located on the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign campus. For those who may not have heard of makerspaces before, a makerspace is a place where people with shared interests can gather to work on projects while sharing ideas, equipment, and knowledge. In our makerspace, you’ll find tools and software you can learn and utilize to make projects all your own. During open hours, we are open to visitors from all around the community and campus.

MISSION:

Access for all: Inspire creativity, discovery, and dynamic learning

The Champaign-Urbana (CU) Community Fab Lab supports campus and community members through research, university courses, community engagement and programming, professional development, youth summer camps, and design and fabrication support for all students, staff, faculty, and community members. We seek to play a boundary spanning role across those areas and intersect with on- and off-campus communities. We are committed to creating an open, community-oriented, and capacity-building makerspace, fostering a dynamic experiential learning environment, and sparking interdisciplinary groundbreaking discoveries.

WHAT WE DO:

CREATIVITY · SELF-DETERMINATION · INCLUSIVITY· BOUNDARY SPANNING

Starting Sunday, May 21

Summer Open Hours

Sundays: 1-6PM

Let’s make something awesome! All community and university members are welcome to stop in and create cool things using our tools and software during our open hours. – Don’t know where to begin? Staff are here to answer questions and help you get started.

The Lab will be closed: 

  • 5/28 – Memorial Day Weekend
  • 6/18 – Juneteenth Weekend
  • 7/2 – 4th of July Weekend