January 25, 2011
This Friday night we will be hosting Crafts of Some Kind. Come on over and get out of the crappy weather to enjoy some knitting, crocheting, paper mache, or what ever kind of craft makes you happy. This is a come show off your favorite craft event but we will also have people who might [...]
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January 16, 2011
Join us this Friday for a free and open to the public intro to Inkscape and Egg-Bott by member Matt B: Inkscape is an open-source vector image editor, capable of making high-quality, images that can be scaled to any size without losing quality. It’s an open-source replacement for Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, and others. This talk [...]
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January 9, 2011
This Friday at 7pm, Derrick will present a survey of transit planning and mapping tools, as well as discuss the issues, both technical and political, surrounding their use. This event is free and open to the public. HackPittsburgh is located at 1936 Fifth Avenue, in the garage around the back on Watson. (Map image and [...]
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January 9, 2011
Join some fellow knot enthusiasts for an evening of skillshare and practice. We’ll bring books and cordage, and you do the same if you can. Whether you are a seasoned sailor, a novice climber, an expert arborist, or new to it all, everyone has something to offer and share. First meeting is Thursday, January 13, [...]
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January 2, 2011
Learn how two of the most popular open-source platforms in the universe can talk with each other using the babelfish of bluetooth. This talk is a demonstration of interfacing an Android phone with an Arduino using the Amarino toolkit. Sayan will give an introduction to: Making simple Android applications that can use data from an [...]
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