The DIY and maker movement has enabled makers to venture out into entrepreneurial endeavours. Members of this community are known to experience a sense of fulfillment when personal moral codes of ethics are maintained, even when they are from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. Our work seeks to explore ways in which this fulfillment is also carried over into an entrepreneurship context. This paper applied a qualitative study involving 9 maker-entrepreneurs from low SES backgrounds, where contextual interviews and a cultural probe inspired method was employed to capture their motivations, business management and overall entrepreneurial trajectory. Our findings indicate maker-entrepreneurs’ clear motivations for being a part of the maker culture, while having a strong sense of responsibility towards the environmental and social issues, as well as the challenges faced by low SES maker-entrepreneurs. This work is intended to add to the low SES maker-entrepreneurship discourse in HCI and identify opportunities to help these entrepreneurs in economic value creation.