Nov. 27 is Hack Friday @ HackPittsburgh!

November 23, 2009

This Friday! Don’t fight for parking at the mall or waste your time standing in line to buy a bunch of mass-produced junk!
Bring yourself to HackPittsburgh instead and make your family some gifts that they can’t find in any store!
This Friday, Nov. 27th, we’re having a mini-shopcation for members to take back Black Friday and [...]

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United States Pirate Party to visit HackPGH Nov. 23, 8pm

November 22, 2009

This Monday, November 23rd (tomorrow!!) at 8pm, the United States Pirate Party will drop by HackPittsburgh to meet members and discuss issues of interest to us!
The US Pirate Party platform covers many topics of interest to HackPittsburgh members, including DRM and copyright online, privacy, freedom of speech and assembly, intellectual property reform, and more!
So, members, [...]

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DeepLocal visits HackPGH, Dec. 11 @ 7pm

November 20, 2009

On Friday, December 11th, DeepLocal will pay a visit to HackPittsburgh!
For the unfamiliar, DeepLocal is behind cool media projects like the Nike LIVESTRONG Chalkbot, info awareness services like RouteShout, and providers of the excellent Gumband SMS API.
They’ll be dropping by HackPittsburgh to check out the shop, talk a bit about their company, their projects, the [...]

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ioBridge tells us when someone’s at HackPGH

November 19, 2009

Last Friday, HackPittsburgh was lucky enough to get an in-person presentation and demo of the ioBridge, a fantastic way to wire up your electronics projects to the web.  On top of that, the ioBridge team was nice enough to donate one of their awesome IO-204 control modules, and a handful of expansion modules!
Members Andy Leer [...]

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Intro to soft circuits: Recap

November 16, 2009

Thanks to everyone who attended our soft circuits workshop this Saturday, we had a blast!  As promised, I’ve started a page of soft circuit resources.  It has a list of the materials that we used in the class and some cool sites and projects for inspiration.
Take photos of the event?  Be sure to add them [...]

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Nerdcore Knitting Night: Friday, Nov. 20th!

November 15, 2009

Join Hack Pittsburgh members Bonnie Bogovich and Jim Newsome as they host an evening of “Nerdcore and/or Knitting”. We feel that it has been a while since we’ve had a craft night down at Hack Pittsburgh, and also feel that it’s about time we had some Nerdcore music videos to play at the [...]

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Soldering Class Kits

November 13, 2009

Please use the Paypal button below to order a kit for the Introduction to Soldering Audio Equipment class. This kit is not for the Arduino Classes.
A Paypal account is not required.
Soldering Kit: $30
Sorry class complete.

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Project Critique Night this Wednesday

November 10, 2009

Got a project idea that you’ve been thinking of for a while, but need some extra help to get it going?  Curious to see what others are working on, and maybe have some tips to offer them?  Just want to hang out and get inspired to work on your next big thing?
If so, you should [...]

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T-Shirt Pre-order Fun-Times

November 9, 2009

The stack of new t-shirts that we got in just last week is already almost gone!  A lot of folks expressed interest in doing another order of the new fist-and-soldering-iron t-shirts, as well as the older license-plate style, so we’re going to get another order put together based on your pre-orders!
We’ve set up some Paypal [...]

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This Friday: Mobile Art && Code Visitors

November 4, 2009

Mobile Art && Code is this Friday through Sunday (Nov. 6-8) at CMU, and HackPittsburgh is doing our part!
Thanks to everyone who has volunteered so far to ferry speakers to and from the airport, assist with classes, to take classes (and pass on what they learn , to teach followup classes at HackPittsburgh, and  [...]

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