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  • KC Maker Faire

    KC Maker Faire

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    Tom Blevins

    Hey! We are in Kansas City today. We have lock picking, pysanky eggs, robots, terrarium, slime, and weaving. I will post links to the projects here when they are finished. For Pysanky Eggs: http://www.archreactor.org/project/pysanky-eggs For RC Sumo http://www.archreactor.org/project/rc-sumo-bots

  • Raspberry Pi Class

    Raspberry Pi Class

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    Tom Blevins

    Fred taught a wonderful full class with 20+ in attendance. This was an overview class stay tuned for more focused classes coming in the near future. Fred is planning on having Raspberry Pi classes every 3 months. Raspberry Pi Class

  • New Laser!

    New Laser!

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    Diane Sudduth

    Arch Reactor has new, larger laser!   AR’s New Laser                         In many ways the new laser is much like the original.   The materials it will cut are the same, the laser software is the same, and preparing images is the same.   The main…

  • 3D Printer Class

    3D Printer Class

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    Tom Blevins

    On April 24th we had a nice class on 3D Printing. The class was over the kinds of printers, how the printers work, and 3D modeling programs. We also learned about the Cura slicing program. Scott R. led the class of about 10 people. 3D Printing Class

  • Fire and Ice Success

    Fire and Ice Success

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    Tom Blevins

    Fire and Ice was a successful event. Thanks to all of you who helped us pull off such a great evening.

  • Super Bowl of Destruction Party Success

    Super Bowl of Destruction Party Success

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    Tom Blevins

    We had over 32 people attending in the space and out at the fire pit. Hard Drives were destroyed. Large Piles of recycleables got reduced to usable parts. Lots of Food was eaten. Lots of soda and beer was consumed. Eagles fans had a great night. 

  • 2018 Election Results

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    webmaster

    Please welcome the newly elected board! President    Joe C.Vice President    Chris W.Treasurer    Nathan S.Secretary    Will A.Sergeant at Arms    Myles F. Public Relations   Tom B.Education    Fred R.Webmaster    Travis M.  

  • Super Bowl of Destruction

    Super Bowl of Destruction

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    Morgan Miransky

    Super Bowl of Destruction Everyone is invited to come to the Arch Reactor for the Super Bowl of Destruction. We will have the football game on our big screen for everyone to watch. Not interested in football? Don’t worry, we also throw this party as something for the non-football enthusiasts. As a hackerspace, we use…

  • Chainmaile Class at AR

    Chainmaile Class at AR

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    Tom Blevins

    On Saturday January the 13th at 1pm Arch Reactor held a Chainmaile class. About 12 people were in attendance. AR brought in an outside instructor named Larry Brown from Inventor Forge. We covered the basics of making 4-on-1 chainmaille.  Larry showed: How to Wrap Wire to make something that looks like a spring, cutting the…

  • Blacksmithing Class

    Blacksmithing Class

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    arch_reactor_director_of_pr

    Thank you to everyone who came out to our Blacksmithing Class last night. It was good to see so many old and new faces. Special thanks goes to Myles, our Sergeant At Arms, who volunteered to teach the class and made the forge for us to use.