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  • Officer Elections – Tonight Tuesday January 29th!

    Officer Elections – Tonight Tuesday January 29th!

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    George Fetters

    2013 Election Returns are in! If you need to contact the board of officers and directors, send mail to archboard@lists.archreactor.org. Officers Position Name President John Reskusich Vice President Chris Weiss Treasurer Travis Megee Secretary Joe Cathell Sargeant at Arms Niels Black Directors Position Name Public Relations Frank Kallal Social Affairs Tony Henley Education Derek Seigler…

  • Fire and Ice Benefit for Arch Reactor and STL Burners

    Fire and Ice Benefit for Arch Reactor and STL Burners

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    George Fetters

    Join us for the Fire and Ice benefit on January 19th.  This promises to be an excellent party. * Chili competition – up to 25 kinds of chili to taste and vote for. * Silent Auction – unusual gifts and treasures for uncommon people. * Fire and Ice Costume Constest: Come to Fire and Ice dressed…

  • Arduino Class

    Arduino Class

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    George Fetters

    Beginner Arduino Workshop Continues Sunday Dec 23   Learn the basics of Arduino an amazing open source electronics prototyping platform   Class Dates:   December 23 – Class 2 Digital and Analog pins, Pull up resistors, Variable Resistors, Blinking LEDs January 6      – Class 3 Controlling Motors, Stepper Motors and Servos, Ping Sensors, and…

  • Weather Balloon AR3 lost. Needs help finding home!

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    Derek Sigler

    Our third weather balloon had GPS failure shortly after launch.  Hopefully, someone will be kind enough to call the number on the payload.  Everyone cross your fingers in hope we get everything back!

  • Awesome Balloon Test

    Awesome Balloon Test

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    George Fetters

    This is so awesome. Derek Sigler’s project, which included a team at Arch Reactor, sent a balloon today to 100,000 ft with a few cameras and were able to locate the payload when it came back down. This is a picture he posted from 97,000 feet above the earth. This is very inspiring. It has…

  • Arduino for Artists (continuing Sunday Nov. 11th 7:00pm

    Arduino for Artists (continuing Sunday Nov. 11th 7:00pm

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    George Fetters

    Sunday November 4th we had the first Arduino for Artists class.  The class was well attended.  Derek covered many of the basics and demonstrated the versatility the Arduino platform provides.  The last hour of the session was turned into a working session where individuals were free to persue their own Arduino projects and get troubleshooting…

  • ArchReactor @ ARCHON 36

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    aricke42

    Arch Reactor will have a table at ARCHCON 36!  Stop by to see us and our many gadgets on display.  Sign up for a Learn to Solder class or just go ahead and sign up to be a member – you know you always wanted to be one! We also have a panel scheduled in…

  • Learn to Solder Class – Take home your own gizmo and a badge!

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    aricke42

    Signup on the facebook event page: http://m.facebook.com/events/280767972034885/ or directly on our forum topic: Google Groups: Learn To Solder The class will go over the basics of soldering and make sure you come out of the class with working knowledge of soldering, a cool gizmo and a neat badge to show off. Kits we are looking to order are…

  • Geek Garage Sale June June 10 9am-4pm

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    Ben West

    The Geek Garage Sale is an opportunity for AR to clean our our techy stuff that’s been sitting around too long and give other geeks a chance to do something with it. AR will have it’s own table, selling off our cool junk, with all the proceeds going into the AR general fund (for rent…

  • Tuesday, March 13th, is Arch Reactor’s Bacon and Rum potluck

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    webmaster

    If you didn’t get enough excitement at the Open House 3.0 or didn’t get a chance to come, swing by our potluck Tuesday for the Bacon and Rum extravaganza! Our doors are open at 7:00pm, and we’ll be having fun for a few hours at least.