More of this, please!
HackPGHers: Got a project you’ve been meaning to get some extra time in on? Have circuits to solder, wood to cut, fabric to sew, or beats to drop? Need a supportive environment to help keep you on task? Well, pack up your stuff and head down to Hack Pittsburgh this [...]
This Friday, we’re heading to Penn Avenue to check out the Geek Art/Green Innovators festival. Plan to meet up at the Pittsburgh Glass Center (5472 Penn Avenue) at 6pm sharp, and we will proceed from there. Official communications will be made on twitter (#HackPGH), but if that’s not your gig send us an [...]
Learn the theory and practice of building a propane-based flame cannon. This class will be taught in two parts. On the first class date (4/18/2010 10am), you will learn you what you need to know about working with propane and propane cannons, both manually- and electronically-fired. On the second class date (4/25/2010 5pm), you will [...]
While at SXSW Interactive, HackPittsburgh member Isaac paid a visit to Austin Hacker Space. They have a very nice set up and certainly one of the largest spaces around. They have a paint room which they are looking to turning into a semi-clean room. While visiting they were hosting Austin DevHouse (just like we host [...]
Some exciting events today at HackPittsburgh:
Members Matt S., Mandy, Sayan, and Andy participated in an impromptu Ham Cram to obtain new amateur radio licenses, and all were successful! We now have 2 new techs, 1 general, and 1 extra class member! Congratulations on your new certs!
Meanwhile, in the other corner of the shop, [...]
March marks the one year anniversary of Hack Pittsburgh. To celebrate, we had cake and liquid nitrogen ice cream. Thanks to everyone for an awesome year, and lets make the next even better!
photo set here.
Nick Britsky, a kind gentleman from our rival space to the north, I3Detroit, came out to visit tonight, and took this nice set of photos of our space. Thanks for visiting!
As we all know, making isn’t just for the little guy. Join us at HackPittsburgh this Friday, March 26th at 7pm to get a look at how the big guys do it!
Members Gwen and Derrick will walk us through pictures of some of their adventures in various industrial settings, explaining the whats, wheres, whos, and [...]
Members Marty McGuire and Matt Mets made a little unboxing video for the new Make: Electronics kit. From Marty’s post:
Like many enthusiastic makers, I recently got my hands on a copy of the excellent Make: Electronics book from O’Reilly. It’s an excellent bottom-up, experiment-based introduction to electronics, but sourcing all of the parts [...]
A group of us from HackPittsburgh (Matt S., Marty, Mandy, and I) took an action-packed trip up to NYC this weekend to attend the Arduino Meetup, and got to visit Adafruit Industries, ITP, NYC Resistor, and Alpha One Labs. Thanks to everyone that took the time to meet with us and show off what [...]
