Arch Reactor Blog

Arch Reactor wins Citizen Scientist Award from Hackaday.io!

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The team of people working on the Internet of Things Microscope have won a first round prize for their work! They are now qualified for the final round that will be decided in October!

Here is a link to the project:

https://hackaday.io/project/11429-internet-of-things-microscope

If you are interested in participating, we will be meeting Thursday nights now through the end of the competition.

http://hackaday.com/2016/07/18/hackaday-prize-20-projects-that-make-us-all-citizen-scientists/

Hackaday IoT Microscope Workshop

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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 LED in place but it also adds weight and when one of your ideas is to make it lightweight for carrying out in to the field adding weight is not ideal but putting everything together in a nice package is ideal. Come next Thursday to see what happens or to add your great ideas.

Arch Reactor Scores Top 10 Booth at Kansas City Maker Faire

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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

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Check out the progress we have made on our Hackaday.io Project, an Internet of Things Microscope!

Please follow the link for additional information.

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Sometimes we even have freshly baked cookies

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

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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 CST 2215 Scott Ave, St. Louis, Missouri, 63103

Please sign up to follow the event and add a comment to give us an RSVP.

For more information: https://hackaday.io/event/10901-st-louis-hackaday-world-create-day-arch-reactor

Additionally, there is a thread about this event on our discussion forum for any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&hl=en#!topic/arch-reactor/FY6BBICx4mI

Moving Day Part 2

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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!

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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 sure to keep an eye on our calendar events or mailing list to see where we will be gathering!

Moving Day!

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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

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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 haven't come down to work or donated to our cause, now is the time to do so! We will be moving in the next few weeks. Check out the progress that we have made!