Learn to make Pysanky in April

Posted on Friday, Mar 24th, 2017

Arch Reactor will be hosting several Pysanky (Ukrainian Egg) workshops in April.   Stop by and decorate your own beautiful egg.

April 2:  2pm - 9pm

April 4 - 7pm - 10pm (with break for the business meeting)

April 9 - 2pm - 9pm

April 11 - 7pm - 10pm

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Supplies will also be available for independent work between April 2 - 11 whenever the space is open

 

 

More information including a detailed powerpoint on the process at:  https://archreactor.org/project/pysanky-eggs

 

Please plan on a minimum of 3 hours to make an egg.  There's a lot of "waiting time" in this craft, thus it's easy to complete two eggs in nearly the same amount of time as making one.  

 

Not suitable for younger children.  

 

 
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Wand Party This Sunday, February 12

Posted on Friday, Feb 10th, 2017

 

Stop by Arch Reactor on Sunday, February 12, to make "Magic Wands"     You may make one or more for yourself or donate your creations to an upcoming Arch Reactor Fundraiser.

Please note that this style of wand-making involves hot-glue.   Children are welcome but must be Closely Supervised by their parent/guardian.
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Super Bowl of Destruction Winners!

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 7th, 2017
There was excitement, competition and mass destruction. The football game was also pretty good. Two hours of destruction created a huge amount hackable material. In the end many teams competed but only one could win.  Here are the winning entries:
 
 
 
 
 
1st Place: James His robot scored well in creativity, functionality, and hack factor categories. Prize $100 gift card to Microcenter Computer
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2nd Place: Derek Sigler and Family. This walking robot embodied all of Derek’s enthusiasm, and scored well in creativity, functionality and extra points for making a walker. Prize nVidia Jetson development board.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3rd Prize: Nathan Shrenk and Family. This robot scored points for use of LEDs and hacking it out of a gaming controller. Prize Second Robotics robot controller board.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4th Prize: Jordan Mann and Family. Brand new to the Space, this team learned soldering, hacking, and what Arch Reactor is all about. Scored points for creativity, passionate hacking, and making the eyes light up. Prize Arduino Starter Pack.
 
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Arch Reactor was featured on Sci Tech Now on PBS

Posted on Friday, Feb 3rd, 2017

http://www.ninenet.org/blogs/scitech-now/scitech-now-february-1-2017/

 
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Pixybot's v2.3

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 25th, 2017

I have recently finished a new and improved version of the Pixybots. Presenting Pixybots v2.3. The original program has been fine tuned to be more responsive. The robot also has may other features including a upgraded laser cut chassis, deans power connectors, pan/tilt head, and IR cliff detection in the front. If you have not seen the Pixy robots before there is alot of information on the orginal version in the projects page. 

Here is a short clip of them in action enjoy!

https://youtu.be/mZfjZUbJNQ8
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Upcoming Events

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  1. St. Louis YouTubers Meetup: Broadcasting for Charity
    • Start time: 12:00pm
    • End time: 02:00pm
    • Where: Arch Reactor, 2215 Scott Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA

    • To start off this week's meeting, we'll have a short presentation/discussion about Extra Life, a charity event for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals that involves streaming video online while soliciting donations from viewers. Learn tips tips, techniques, and recommendations from two volunteers with over 100 hours of experience, and start planning your own stream for this fall.

      After the Extra Life discussion, we will be open for general discussion as usual.

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Sunday, July 21st

  1. Open Build Something!
    • Start time: 07:00pm
    • End time: 10:00pm
    • Where: 2215 Scott Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA

    • Come stop by and visit! Open build night to work on projects and hang out!

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Tuesday, July 23rd

  1. Don't Try This at Home planning meeting
  2. Class: Sheet Metal Bending

Friday, July 26th

  1. 3D Printer Meetup
    • Start time: 07:00pm
    • End time: 09:00pm

    • Whether you're interested in printing for art, prototyping, manufacturing, or just fixing dishwasher soap lids, this is a meetup group where you can come get answers to your questions, help people new to the hobby, and show off your printer and its creations.

      If you have a printer, bring it along, working or not, we would love to see and learn about it.

      https://www.meetup.com/STL-3D-Printing/

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Saturday, July 27th

  1. Private event <> BG Meet-up
    • Start time: 12:00pm
    • End time: 10:00pm
    • Where: 2215 Scott Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA, Archreactor, Arch Reactor

    • ORGANIZER : Frank Kallal

      This is a Team meet-up and Practice session for an event we are attending two weeks from now. We will Be Utilizing the Classroom Area, with some possibility of the Wooden table and Maybe some of the Main "clean Room" table

      Possible attendance is in the 15-20 person range. with 5-10 of those being folks that have not been to the space previously. It's possible we will run later than 6pm, but at that point the space should be open for anyone even though we are still there.

      Member's of any form are more than welcome to use the Shop or front area space, however I would Prefer not to Compete against a secondary event during this time frame.

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