Built for Anchorage
to help Anchorage build
Alaska Innovation Lab is an advanced manufacturing lab on Merrill Field. We put industrial 3D printers, a CNC mill, 3D scanners, laser cutting, and robotics within the reach of our community, with a team that shows you how to use them.
Inventors, students, pilots, mechanics, and small businesses come here to turn an idea, a sketch, or a broken part into something they can hold. Start with a class, book time on a machine, or bring us the problem and we will help you solve it.
Four ways to use the lab.
Classroom rentals
Rent the room for a class, club, or company training. The printers, CNC, scanner, and laser come with it.
Equipment rental
Already know the machine? Book shop time by the hour and run your own files after a quick checkout.
Classes
Hands-on classes for beginners. Pick a machine, learn it, and leave with something you made.
training
Structured courses in CAD, CAM, and machine setup for people headed into manufacturing and aviation work.
Upcoming classes
3D printing
Prototypes, brackets, jigs, and the plastic clip
CNC milling
Cut wood, plastics, and aluminum from toolpaths you program yourself. (7071 Aluminum)
3D scanning
Scan an existing part, clean up the model, and print or machine a copy.
Laser cutting
Cut and engrave wood, acrylic, and leather right to the line.
Alaskan Innovation
Up here, the part you need is often weeks away, if anyone still makes it at all. So Alaskans do what we’ve always done: we figure it out. We’ve fixed snowmachines at twenty below, rebuilt what the barge couldn’t bring, and turned “that’ll never work” into “huh… it worked.”
The Alaska Innovation Lab takes that same do-it-yourself spirit and gives it better tools. With CNC machining, 3D printing and the know-how to use them, the part you can’t buy becomes the part you make. It’s not a workaround. It’s a better solution, built here, by you.
Bring the problem. Leave with the fix.
Bring a project. Leave with a part.
Tell us what you want to make. We'll point you to the right class, machine, or room.