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  • Learn Cardweaving at Arch Reactor

    Learn Cardweaving at Arch Reactor

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    Diane Sudduth

    Interested in learning the basics of Cardweaving?    Join Diane at Arch Reactor at 6:30pm Sunday, October 4, to review the basics of Cardweaving, learn about patterns, materials, and techniques.   See the Arch Reactor calendar for contact information.             

  • SLSC Maker In Residence

    SLSC Maker In Residence

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    Diane Sudduth

    The Saint Louis Science Center opened a new Makerspace in June and has asked members of Arch Reactor members to contribute as periodic Maker In Residence.   Today Frank Kallel and Diane Sudduth showed off Laser Cutting!    We restricted ourselves to cardstock so that we could make a lot of things to give away.   We made…

  • Arch Reactor Recieves a Grant From Boeing’s Employee Community Fund

    Arch Reactor Recieves a Grant From Boeing’s Employee Community Fund

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    Myles Farrell

    Arch Reactor is happy to announce that we have received a grant from the Boeing Employee Community Fund. “One of the largest employee-owned and managed funds of its kind in the world, the Employees Community Fund (ECF) of The Boeing Company has been empowering employees to make greater impact by pooling their tax-deductible donations for…

  • Science Center – Bright Ideas Expo

    Science Center – Bright Ideas Expo

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    Tom Blevins

    We recently attended the Bright Ideas Expo at the Saint Louis Science Center. The expo was for highlighting St. Louis makers — their amazing work and the creative process each maker takes along the way. The expo was to provide an inside look at the work of local game developers, visual artists, crafters, tech visionaries…

  • KC Maker Faire 2015

    KC Maker Faire 2015

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    Tom Blevins

    We had a reallly fun time at the Kansas City Maker Faire. I talked with at least 10 people that either live in St. Louis or wanted to send somebody they know to visit us. We had the telepresence robot, The NVidia Jetson robot, the pixy bots, face dectection bot, 3 different LED Matrices, and…

  • KCMaker Faire

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    Chris Weiss

    Join us in Kansas City today at the 6th anual KC maker Faire!  We’re booth 45, and Griffin 3D printing is across the isle from us.   http://www.makerfairekc.com/

  • Science Center’s Makerspace

    Science Center’s Makerspace

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    Chris Weiss

    Our letter is now mounted at the Science Center!  Guess which one it is… Image from the Science Center’s Facebook page

  • Time warp!

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    Chris Weiss

    Ok not really.  We had a server crash and database corruption, an old backup was quickest to restore, we hope to have more soon.

  • Electronics Class

    Electronics Class

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    Tom Blevins

    Tonight we learned about relays, 555 timers, op-amps, diodes in circuits.

  • Oscilloscopes with Bob

    Oscilloscopes with Bob

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    Tom Blevins

    By my quick count at least 17 were in attendance, to learn about oscilloscopes. I learned about PMW pins on the arduino. I learned how they can help give more life and torque to my robotics. We learned how the oscilloscopes differ from multimeters.