Wilco Works Maker Lab – Calgary’s Open 3D Printing Workshop

Welcome to the Wilco Works Maker Lab, the experimental heart of our Calgary workshop.
TWelcome to the Wilco Works Maker Lab, the experimental heart of our Calgary workshop.
This is where every 3D-printed part, prototype, and creative repair begins — a hands-on space where we test ideas, tune machines, and occasionally melt a little too much filament in the name of progress.

We treat the Lab as an open notebook:

• Designing and testing functional 3D-printed tools, shims, clips, and fixtures for real maintenance work.
• Exploring materials including PLA, PETG, ASA, TPU, and new additions like Nylon (PA12), Carbon-Fiber PETG, Polycarbonate (PC), and Recycled PLA to push strength, flexibility, and sustainability.
• Prototyping future Wilco Works Catalog products before release.
• Logging build notes, failures, and happy accidents so others can learn (or laugh) along the way.

Everything here is part workshop diary, part open-source documentation — our way of showing how small-batch fabrication actually happens in the real world.
Some prints graduate to the Maintenance Line Catalog, others end up as Free Drops in Calgary’s little libraries, and a few stay here as ongoing experiments.

Wilco Works Maker Lab: Calgary’s open-source 3D printing studio for maintenance design, sustainable materials, and small-batch innovation.

Wilco Works Maker Lab: Calgary’s open-source 3D printing studio for maintenance design, sustainable materials, and small-batch innovation.