Eliminating the wait, one project at a time.
“As a Kiwi hobbyist, I've felt the frustration of a project grinding to a halt while you wait weeks for a single component to arrive from overseas. Projects that should take a weekend end up taking months. I started NZN Electronics to change that, providing local stock for local makers so we can spend more time building and less time tracking packages.”
Lukas Fleck, Founder
The mission
Eliminate the wait for New Zealand makers: high-value electronics, stocked locally, for people who iterate fast.
In the workshop
NZN Electronics is run by Lukas Fleck, an engineering student and maker based in Te Awamutu. Every part we sell earns its place in a real workshop first.
Meet the maker
My maker journey started back in 2021. I'd fallen down a flight-simulator rabbit hole and stumbled on a post about using 3D printers to make custom knobs and dials for sim cockpits, and the idea stuck. At the time the realistic options were a high-priced Prusa i3 MK3 or the budget Ender series, so I put some savings into an Ender 5 Pro. My very first print, a 20×20×20 calibration cube, came out beautifully. I was hooked.
Reliability was another story. The Ender 5 slowly got worse, and I fell into the classic loop of 3D printing parts to repair the 3D printer. In 2023 I added a Voxelab Aquila X2 as a backup, churning out parts from Fusion 360, until somehow both machines became unreliable at once. The Sovol SV06 that followed turned out more dependable than the previous two combined.
Most of those builds combined 3D-printed assemblies with electronics, and almost every component came from overseas. That's where the long waits began. I added an Atomstack A5 Pro diode laser to cut panels for my flight sim, but the diode was weak enough that I could only manage 3mm plywood and a 550×400mm engraving area. To build a 1m cockpit frame, I split the CAD into 16 pieces, ran sixteen 2-hour-plus jobs, then aligned, assembled and glued the whole thing together. It worked, though I was never quite happy with the engraving quality.
So in late 2023 I built my own CNC machine, a PrintNC, with linear parts from HLTNC and a steel frame. I got three-quarters of the way through before realising I was missing cable chain, taps, bolts and more. Order one part, wait a week from overseas, discover the next missing piece five minutes later. That single cycle of buy, wait, repeat is the reason NZN Electronics exists. A build that should have taken weeks took over three months.
Since then the workshop has grown to a slightly ridiculous size. At its 2025 peak it held six 3D printers, a resin printer, the CNC, and a laser cutter. I've trimmed it back a little while I work through an engineering degree, but I still prototype and design parts in my spare time. I'm now studying towards a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waikato, with a side interest in amateur rocketry. I see NZN Electronics as both a way to help Kiwi makers and a hands-on extension of everything I'm learning.
Why the business exists
NZN Electronics was founded to solve a problem every Kiwi maker knows: getting affordable, high-quality components locally, without long shipping delays or inflated prices. We stock the parts we actually use, hold them here in New Zealand, and get them to your door fast.
How long we've been operating
We've been serving Kiwi makers since early 2026, starting on Trade Me and expanding to our own storefront, with the catalogue and range growing all the time.
NZ NZN Electronics is proudly New Zealand owned and operated, run by Lukas Fleck trading as NZN Electronics.