Reactor Fund for Hardcore Hackers

Fueling the fearless creators who weld, hack, machine, solder, explode, and rebuild the physical world from their garages and homemade labs.

This Fund backs backs mad scientists If you machine rocket nozzles , resurrect surplus vacuum systems, print custom PCBs have a diy sintering system or shoot electrons through DIY accelerators lfg

Eligibility

My funds money is intended to be a boost not an igniter.
I am a strong believer that real makers don't need funding to start their project. They just find a way whenever it is necessary.
I support creators who treat engineering as a full-contact sport: ambitious, risky, and deeply hands-on. If you tear down machines to understand them, build your own tools when they don’t exist, and chase problems no sane institution would fund—you’re my people.
FILL OUT THESE REQUIREMENTS
To qualify for this fund, projects must meet the following eligibility requirements:
NO AI NO SAAS
- Show real, physical builds you’ve made: rockets, drones, vacuum chambers, microscopes, high-voltage rigs, propulsion experiments, robotics, chemistry setups, FPGA/PCB systems, machining projects, or other advanced DIY hardware.
- Present a clear next-build objective—the thing you want to construct, test, or attempt that moves your field forward (or sideways into the unknown).
- Include at least one failure or massive roadblock in your project you had to solve
- Preference for projects with serious technical ambition: UHV systems, plasma physics, fluid dynamics rigs, combustion experiments, particle-related builds, advanced composites, or aerospace prototypes.
- Preference for projects that already got quite far. Concepts and claiming stats is easy. Owning up to your own claims is hard (trust me I've been there)
- If you want to get funding my only string is that you have to start posting in tech Twitter about what you do with the money and more importantly post occasional tech threads and updates on your project

Projects (51)

47 submitted · 2 funded · 2 curated

Project	Status	Raised
DIY Nuclear Physics Particle Accelerator	funded	$23,923
Nitrous Oxide Rocket Engine Testing for an Open-Source Design Bible	funded	$48,820
High Voltage For The Home Shop	curated	$0
Cryogenic Rocket Engine, and Gimbaling/Throttling Engine	curated	$126
FutureZoo	submitted	$215,046
ZuCity Japan	submitted	$110
WristKey Global Solutions	submitted	$0
Neurodevelop: Neuromodulation for everyone	submitted	$1,790
unlocking children’s potential through AI	submitted	$43
Green Evolutions ReFi Village	submitted	$0
Garage Calcinator	submitted	$0
Flying tractors	submitted	$0
Transitioning VTOL for Efficient Flight	submitted	$0
Made from Fire	submitted	$0
UpCycle Electric	submitted	$0
Blackout Prevention Drone	submitted	$0
Gradient Optics	submitted	$0
CL-072	submitted	$1,882
Noisebox III	submitted	$0
Chessaiarm	submitted	$0
Mars and Moon base.	submitted	$0
ARIEN	submitted	$0
Automating biology in a vertically-integrated hardware x biology lab	submitted	$0
Live.Farm	submitted	$330
GreenPill Uganda: Uganda's Regenerative Agriculture and web3 mission	submitted	$11
Surveillance Detection Watch	submitted	$0
TW4 Energy recovery ventilator - clean outdoor air without heat loss/gain	submitted	$0
Kitsune	submitted	$0
Stringman	submitted	$0
algae purse and biotextiles	submitted	$0
LORS: Lunar Open-sourced Rover Standard	submitted	$5
SaferGun - Saving Lives	submitted	$0
SportsX	submitted	$0
Labour Union of Higherdimensional Shapeshifters	submitted	$360
Vinylytics	submitted	$0
UFB	submitted	$0
Virginia Value Supply	submitted	$0
Green Horizons	submitted	$0
Akuya	submitted	$234
Landscapes of Opportunity	submitted	$1,373
TerraScope Assembly Kit: From Prototype to Community Node	submitted	$344
Pandemic	submitted	$4,111
Gypsy Blood - Movie	submitted	$624
NEW FLESH // NEW BONES	submitted	$9,020
DriveFi	submitted	$0
Lunar Lander Flight Dynamics Drone	submitted	$0
Tech And Sun Hubs	submitted	$9,920
From Particle To Wave	submitted	$0
The International Artists Project Documentary	submitted	$563
Shine! / direct-to-fan music platform	submitted	$140
Hands of Hope Foundation	submitted	$0