Join us this Friday, July 1st, for a talk and demonstration of a Do-It-Yourself Vacuform table! What good is a Vacuform table? You can make your own masks, costumes, tool and parts trays, jello molds, ice-cube trays, candle molds… the list goes on. We’ll go over our current table design and construction as well as [...]
What’s a girl to do with all her leftover LEDs and yarn? Create top secret yarnbombing missions for friends and send them all over the world, of course! The LEDFlower project combines social networking, snail mail, and google maps to share tiny episodes of yarnbombing fun internationally and put them on a map. Come here the story behind [...]
Friday June 17th, we will be hosting an introduction to needle felting. Needle felting allows you to take sections of raw unspun wool and turn it into fabric or three dimensional items. HackPittsburgh member Mandy Stultz will be guiding you through the tools and techniques used to get started in this easy and fun craft. [...]
To celebrate the first happening of Pittsburgh B Sides, an information security conference organized by HackPittsburgh friends and members, we will be holding a movie screening of Hold Fast. Hold Fast is the story of famed security researcher Moxie Marlinspike and his two friends buying a beat up old sailboat and joining the yachting world. [...]
Join the Jet set with a few tricks and practices to get the most out of your frequent flier program. This Friday at 7pm, Arnaud will be explaining a few of the methods he has learned to squeeze every last mile out of the system. This is a free event and is open to the [...]