A commitment to creating and knowledge sharing.

Our mission is to provide an uninhibited environment that promotes creativity and learning to any and all potential makers and hackers. We achieve this with our combination of collaborative work space, public classes, and the extensive knowledge base of our members.

The only Constant is Change

Arch Reactor is a constantly evolving organization, the tools-on-hand are ever changing and improving, driven by member initiatives.

Wood working

Power tools, hand tools, and specialty tools allow making just about anything out of wood

Metal working

Metal working capabilities expand and improve almost weekly as member make the tools they need

Textiles

From standard machines to industrial sewing that can handle denim and leather open many possibilities

3D printing

Several filament based 3D printers and resin printers are available, supporting projects up to 500mm3

Laser Engraving

With a 3ftx4ft cutting area our CO2 laser can cut and engrave large projects with ease

And more

Vinyl cutters, soldering, oscilloscopes, lapidary, and more!

Our 5000 ft2 reaction chamber contains a Shop full of equipment, a Lab to work on your projects, a Classroom to enrich your mind, and a Lounge where ideas can fuse together. Our space is a community workshop where members learn, collaborate, and bring ideas to life. Our members keep everything running, and our community is always working to improve the space.

Lab Area

The Lab area features a lot of table space for everyone to work on their projects in a low-dust environment. There are also many tools for working on electronics and other clean projects, including a soldering station, vinyl cutter, 3D printers, and an 80W laser cutter. There are shelves where members can keep a private tote, and an assortment of salvaged and donated parts available for anyone to use. 

Classroom

The classroom seats over 20 students in a clean and quiet space conducive to learning. It is not completely finished, but it is functional and we have been using it to hold classes. We currently have two large flat panel displays on the walls for presentations. We expect in the future to add a large projector screen, white boards, a wireless microphone system, and a live streaming camera all available for any class. 

Lounge

The lounge will be a cozy area for everyone to relax and socialize in. We currently have a fridge full of soda and a freezer with pizza, and we hope to soon have a full kitchenette. There are couches and comfy chairs, a MAME machine, and soon there will be a console gaming area as well.

Shop

Many of us urbanites don’t have garages to tinker in, which is why we have a fully featured shop in our space, including saws, vices, grinders, lathes, drill presses, planers, welders, kilns, forges and all the tools we need to create. Some tools are owned by the organization, but most are owned by our members and shared. Use of the shop is restricted to members, and you must always be trained before using a new tool.

“A co-op workshop for techies, tinkerers, and free thinkers.”

Evan S. Benn

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  • Hackaday IoT Microscope Workshop

    Hackaday IoT Microscope Workshop

    The team met up again this week and is trying to nail down design ideas for a nice travel case. It seems tricky to balance lightweight and ease of use with beautiful design elements. One idea is to put the pi and hat in a box under the microscope. The box could also hold the…

  • Arch Reactor Scores Top 10 Booth at Kansas City Maker Faire

    Arch Reactor Scores Top 10 Booth at Kansas City Maker Faire

    Congratulations to all the people who represented Arch Reactor at the Kansas City Maker Faire! Our booth placed in the Top 10!

  • Internet of Things Microscope

    Internet of Things Microscope

    Check out the progress we have made on our Hackaday.io Project, an Internet of Things Microscope! Please follow the link for additional information. Using a modular design based on a Raspberry PI 3, our challenge will be to update the microscope using low cost and open-source materials. We are going to build a microscope that…

  • Cookies

    Cookies

    Sometimes we even have freshly baked cookies

  • Arch Reactor to host St. Louis’ Hackaday World Create Day

    Arch Reactor to host St. Louis’ Hackaday World Create Day

    Arch Reactor Hackerspace will be hosting the St. Louis portion of this year’s Hackaday Prize Design concept challenge.  Come and join us as a team (or several teams) who will start to design & enter their ideas in the 2016 Hackaday Prize design concept challenge. Saturday, April 23, 2016, 10:00 am CST – 03:00 pm…

  • Moving Day Part 2

    Moving Day Part 2

    Thanks to everyone that helped finish up the move last Saturday.  We have pretty much everything moved out of the old space and only have some minor cleanup left.

  • Successful Moving Day!

    Successful Moving Day!

    Thanks to everyone that came out last Saturday to help get our shop equipment.  We were able to get the entire shop moved over and the existing space cleaned up.  Look for moving events in the near future to help get the rest of the areas moved out.  Until we are completely moved over make…

  • Moving Day!

    Moving Day!

    Join us at Saturday Feb 27th at 10am to start packing up our shop equipment at Jefferson Underground and moving it to our new space at 2215 Scott Ave.  We have received our occupancy permits and are ready to really get moving!  Arch Reactor will provide lunch to everyone that helps out!

  • Super Bowl of Destruction

    Thank you everyone for coming out! We had a great time! So much destruction and mayhem! The donations shelves have been demolished, clean and dirty shops. The library is packed away, until we ran out of boxes. We even got to watch the game. This is the next big step in our move.  If you…

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