Maker13 Makerspace opens in Jeffersonville

It started with a trailer of 3-D printers, laser cutters, electronics and a need to bring these tools to the community.

Now, two local entrepreneurs have morphed that idea into Southern Indiana’s first makerspace called Maker13, opening this weekend in the old Gray and Wells Auto Body Shop building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Jeffersonville.

The makerspace is a membership-driven facility where people can access tools and learn how to use them to advance their career, create a new product or just tinker around, said Brian Neihoff, one of the co-owners of Maker13.

“You can come in, we provide the training and you can make whatever you want,” Niehoff said. “If people have an idea for a project, we give them the capacity to do it.”