Innovative colleges with a strong focus on making things?

@tk21769 I like building wide range of things—art, software, hardware/robotics, woodworking, music (recording and building instruments)—so I’d like a school to be conductive to that.

Stanford’s the dream but pretty much all these schools are moonshots for me as I have a 1520 new SAT, 3.4 GPA (with an upward trend to 3.75). I’m looking for preferably medium or large schools in a non-rural setting. I need good financial aid, as our budget is $50k max (~150k income in a high COL area).