What you can and can't make here.

How review works

You submit a request on the makerspace page. We review within 24 hours (faster on weekdays). If approved, you'll get a second email with the pay link — your pass activates on payment. If we can't accept the request, you'll get a short note explaining why. No charge is made until you're approved and you pay.

We ask for a description on print-job and volume-pack requests because we can't meaningfully review what you're going to make without one. Day passes, memberships, and workshops ride on identity review only.

What we will not print, cut, route, or assist with

These categories are rejected without exception:

• Firearms and components. Full firearms, receivers (serialized or unserialized), auto sears, suppressors, magazines over state limits, bump stocks, solvent traps, or any part whose primary function is to enable firing a projectile. This includes "educational" or "airsoft-compatible" variants. Federal law is the floor, not the ceiling.
• Counterfeit or fraud-enabling items. Fake IDs, currency-sized plates, credit-card skimmers, lock-bypass tooling marketed for unauthorized use, counterfeit brand logos or packaging.
• Copyrighted characters. Disney, Nintendo, Marvel, DC, Hasbro, Pokémon, Sanrio, and similar — even for personal use, if we can't confirm the design is original or properly licensed.
• Medical devices. Anything implanted, ingested, or used in diagnosis/treatment outside of a research context with documented IRB approval. Prosthetics and orthotics for personal use are case-by-case — ask first.
• Hate symbols, harassment targets. Swastikas, KKK iconography, effigies of specific individuals, anything intended to intimidate.
• Hazardous items. Explosive, incendiary, or high-pressure components. Drug-paraphernalia items in jurisdictions where they're illegal.

What we approve enthusiastically

• Original CAD — your own design or something you've licensed (Thingiverse CC, Printables, commissioned work).
• Functional prints — brackets, enclosures, jigs, fixtures, replacement parts, tooling.
• Educational — robotics kits, Jetson/Arduino/Raspberry Pi housings, classroom models, science-fair components.
• Prototyping for a product or project you're shipping.
• Art, jewelry, custom gifts, fashion accessories.
• Repair work — replacement knobs, appliance parts, furniture brackets, anything keeping an old thing alive.

If your request is declined

You'll get an email with a plain-English reason. If we got the read wrong, reply — we respond to every contested decline within a business day. If you want to resubmit with changes (e.g. different material, remove a feature, rework the design), just submit a new request.

We don't keep a blacklist. A declined request has no bearing on future submissions; each one is reviewed fresh on its own merits.

Why the gate

NovoCreation operates as a licensed design and engineering studio. When we manufacture on-premise, the insurer, our building owner, the ATF, and state regulators all expect us to know what's being made. The review step is how we hold up that end — not because we want to slow you down.

It also keeps the space pleasant. Shared makerspaces that skip upstream review eventually find themselves arguing on Reddit about why there's a dust-covered drag king in the finishing room. We'd rather not.

Questions

Not sure whether your project fits? Write to [email protected] before you submit. We'll give you a quick read on whether it's in scope — no commitment either way.