These are vendor recommendations from our community for great shopping. We've divided them into shop areas, and distance from MAKE Roanoke or Online. Local is defined as under 90 minutes from the space, Road Trip is defined as 90 minutes-4 hours from the space. Add your favorite shops and vendors to the list here

• Design House Fabrics
  • Valley View Mall
• Schoolhouse Fabrics
  • 220 N Locust St, Floyd, VA 24091
• Bargain Barn Fabrics
  • 11600 W Lynchburg Salem Tpke Montvale, VA 24122

• Threads Run Thru It Quilt Shop
  • 238 Main St., Brookneal, VA 24258
  • Huge selection of quilting fabric, sewing machine sales and service (Juki, Babylock), classes.
• Sew Classic Fabrics
  • 121 Carpenter Ln, Harrisonburg, VA 22801
  • Large selection of quilting fabric, classes, Janome sewing machines.

• DIYardage
• Fabric Wholesale Direct
• Online Fabric Store

• Best Buy
• PC Land
  • 1333 S Main St, Blacksburg, VA 24060

• Microcenter
  • Great selection of filaments, as well as project pieces and parts
  • 4744 South Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28217
  • 3089 Nutley St, Fairfax, VA 22031

• Siraya Tech
  • Many great, almost-engineering resins
• SUNLU
  • “ABS Like” is a great budget-friendly resin

• Printables
• Cults3d
• Thingiverse

• Hardware Imagination Tech
  • Cabinet supply store with a good selection of domestic hardwood, plywood, and cabinet hardware.
  • Let them know you’re there in the office area before going into the larger warehouse.
• Woodcraft

• McMaster-Carr
  • Amazing selection with complete specs, fast but usually expensive shipping

• H.C. Baker
  • 2740 Franklin Rd SW #3, Roanoke, VA 24014
• Lowe’s
  • 4224 Valley Ave, Roanoke, VA 24018
  • Will have basic hand tools, multimeters, and wire
• Home Depot
  • 4176 Franklin Rd, Roanoke, VA 24014
  • Will have basic hand tools, multimeters, and wire

• Microcenter
  • Good selection of electronics tools and components. Has Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, and hats/shields/projects to interface with them.
  • 4744 South Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28217
  • 3089 Nutley St, Fairfax, VA 22031

• Adafruit
  • Offers a lot of maker-friendly prototyping resources, as well as usage guides. Great for break-out boards and project inspiration.
• Sparkfun
  • Offers a lot of maker-friendly prototyping resources, as well as usage guides. Great for break-out boards and project inspiration.
• Digikey
  • Supplier of electronics components.
• Mouser
  • Like digikey, supplier of electronics components.
• LCSC
  • Overseas supplier of electronic components. Can be very cheap source for passives, but high shipping cost.
• OSHPark
  • Domestic PCB manufacturer
• PCBWay
  • PCB manufacturer
• JLCPCB
  • PCB manufacturer. Tends to be a little cheaper than PCBWay for >2-layer boards