Saturday six shop members(*) made the six-hour round-trip drive to attend UPENE 2010 in Norwalk, OH. It was free again this year, but advance sign-up was required with a limited the number of attendees. This year there was a theme: to build and bring a robot built around/using the Propeller. HackPittsburgh members who had attended [...]
It’s been a while since we have done a movie night so tonight is the triumphant return of the Hacker Movie Night! Come see Hackers Are People too and possibly other hacker related films at the shop tonight. This is a free event and is open to anyone! Doors open at 7 and the movies [...]
Sunday, August 8th: 97,497 feet! Months of work, a trial launch still to be recovered (lost at 95,000 feet) a night-before crunch finishing up the details… Four of us, Jon, Matt, Mandy (our Hackerspaces in Space Contest Judge), and Doug meet at the shop at 8am on Sunday. Matt already has the helium tank in [...]
Interested in soldering, but need help getting started? Come learn tosolder at HackPittsburgh with the fun and simple Tactile Metronome kit. We will guide you through the art and practice of soldering with this easy-to-assemble kit. This class will teach you to solder, or help you practice your through-hole soldering skills if you are a [...]
We don’t have an activity or a speaker planned for tonight but that doesn’t mean we won’t be there hanging out and getting stuff done. Lots of us have projects we are working on and things we want to do, so come down to the shop starting at 7pm to join in, you never know [...]
Friday NIGHT Event this week will be Egg-Bot and Omelettes. The egg-bot is a cnc drawing machine from Evil Mad Scientist Labs. We will be blowing out eggs and drawing images on them. Bring your favorite image and prepare to enjoy wonderful omelettes from the eggs we will be blowing out! Doors open at 6:30pm, [...]
Visit August 8th, 2010 Launch for details on the launch!!!! SUCCESS!!!!!!! Visit the flickr site for Balloon PICS Balloon Flickr
Come in this Friday night starting at 7pm for DIY Jewelry Night. Bring anything you would like to make into jewelry, help with tools will be provided. Come out and bring friends. This event is open to anyone! Some supplies will be provided.