Posted on February 5, 2011 by contact
Robots? Check. UAVs? Check. Model Trains? Check. Creepy walking things to scare your girlfriend? Check. Microcontrollers are the marvel of the modern world. With a mastery of these devices you can program anything to do anything anytime for any reason. At the QC Co-Lab’s 6 week intro to micro-controller workshop you will learn to operate one of the most popular hobby micocontrollers available today. The Arduino Uno is cheap, powerful and well supported in the community. You will learn the basics of C/C++ programming, as well as get hands on experience designing and creating the project of your choice. Classes
Posted on October 18, 2010 by contact
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 choice to give them the green light. I had no idea what kind of professionalism, enthusiasm, not to mention being right cool people. That iPhone 4 wielding video crew was Electromagnate (@electromagnate,http://www.electromagnate.com) Armed with steady cam mounts and tripods that work with Apple’s latest phone
Posted on October 6, 2010 by contact
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.
Posted on October 6, 2010 by contact
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!
Posted on September 29, 2010 by contact
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 hackerspaces come visit, a documentary crew filming everything, cool talks ranging from cloning DNA and home hydroponics to establishing a web presence and changing how we learn today, impromptu soldering workshops, tweet-displyaing Apple II’s, fire and brimstone, and excitement galore. I’d like to take a
Posted on September 17, 2010 by contact
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 our MakerBot will produce a mold fine enough for use in casting a QC Co-Lab coin! Now if that doesn’t signify a great first day of a grand opening, I don’t know what does. In addition, we had solder kits from Adafruit and Makershed, which were a big
Posted on September 1, 2010 by contact
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 experience some of what makes the QC Co-Lab unique. We have a full schedule lined up, including tours of the new space, a variety of great talks, games, prizes, and more. Throughout the days, our members will be displaying some of our favorite projects, such
