Maker Station
Maker Station serves a particular community within Cape Town: people learning electronics, building projects, designing custom solutions, and needing someone who stocks components at scale. This is where makers, hobbyists, students, and small manufacturers source resistors, microcontrollers, sensors, and the niche parts that online suppliers either don't carry locally or charge freight on. The shop functions as hub—part retailer, part workshop culture—for people who need access not just to parts but to people who can advise on whether component A will actually work for component B. In a city with a growing maker and tech community, having a physical store that serves that knowledge base matters beyond the transaction.