Project 5. Bronze-Melting Blast Furnace
It’s traditional for hackerspaces to create a coin design with the hackerspace logo and then output it on a 3D printer. Quad Cities Co-Lab took their coin design one huge step forward by making theirs in bronze with the help of a homemade blast furnace.
Credit: Zak Kupua
Hackerspace Profile: Quad City Co-Lab
Location:
Quad City Co-Lab
1033 East 53rd Street
Davenport, IA 52807
Organizational type:
Iowa nonprofit, 501(3)c pending
Founding date: April 2010
Number of members: 20
Dues: $30/month ...
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