ReMade Aims to Bring the Maker Movement Mainstream Again

As we were planning our grand opening event, I received an e-mail from a guy named Chris. Chris talked to me about a documentary he and several other people were filming, and they wanted to come to the QC Co-Lab to feature our space. Not one to turn down free publicity, it was an easy ...

Bronze casting with the crew of QC-Co Lab – Makerbot Blog

Article Title: Bronze casting with the crew of QC-Colab Author: “MakerBlock” Full URL: http://blog.makerbot.com/2010/10/01/bronze-casting-with-the-crew-of-qc-c… Date: 10/01/10 Dave Hinkle, bronze caster extraordinaire, and “pretty good” programmer does a cool writeup of his project for MakerBot’s blog on how he used the MakerBot to create the impression for his sand casting bronze experiment.

QC Co-Lab fosters thinkers, builders in technology field – Quad City Times

Article Title: QC Co-Lab fosters thinkers, builders in technology field Author: Doug Schorpp Full URL: http://qctimes.com/business/article_d4d8a71c-c1f5-11df-b10b-001cc4c03286… Date: 9/16/10 A nice writeup out just in time for our grand opening festivities!

Grand Opening was so awesome I couldn’t make a blog post until now…

It’s already been a week and a half and no one’s posted about Grand Opening week? Oh what, that’s MY job? Sheesh… And I suppose you want to hear all about it too, don’t you? I’m not surprised, it was pretty awesome. Overall at the QC Co-Lab grand opening, we had people from 4 neighboring ...

Grand Opening Friday – Flame On!

If you ever wanted to know what 1800 degree (F) bronze looks like, the QC Co-Lab is the place you want to be. David Hinkle (Twitter: @drachs1978) constructed a blast furnace and used it to liquify bronze ingots for sandcasting coins. Tonight’s firing was a dry (or maybe molten) run, and a complete success. Hopefully tomorrow ...

Grand Opening!

The QC Co-Lab is proud to announce our Grand Opening Weekend and Open House from Friday, September 17th thru Sunday September 19th at our new facility, located at 1033 E 53rd St. in Davenport, IA, next to Hamilton Technical College. (Full Press Release) We would like to invite you out to see the new space and ...