This weekend we successfully launched and recovered our 4th high altitude weather balloon named B1. We sent our balloon up to 100,748 feet over Ohio. The payload included two tracking units and a video camera. Details of our payload and flight can be found on our wiki at http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/wiki/index.php?title=B1 . Because of interference with our [...]
This Friday (08-26-11) we will be hacking our taste buds with a Miracle Fruit tasting party. The Synsepalum Dulcificum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum) produces a berry that temporarily alters your taste buds into making sour and acidic things taste sweet. We will be providing tablets that contain concentrated miracle berry powder (easier to ship than fresh fruit) and [...]
Hans Scharler from ioBridge, will be returning to HackPittsburgh for the second time to demo his company’s outstanding product and let us know what’s new in the two years since he was last here. The ioBridge allows users to easily (with no programming or soldering needed) connect the real world to the virtual world. Using [...]
HackPittsburgh and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh are pleased to announce the 2011 Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire. The event will be held October 23rd at the Children’s Museum in the North Side. We are currently looking for makers, crafters, artists, engineers, and anyone else who has something amazing to show at the event. If you [...]
Join the IxDA (http://www.ixda.org/) and IDSA Wester PA Chapter (http://www.idsa.org/WesternPA) as they visit HackPittsburgh for a night of discussion on design and hacking. This will be an informal meet up of these three groups giving a chance for ideas, knowledge, and inspiration to be exchanged. IxDA and IDSA will give a brief introduction about the [...]
This past weekend the HackPittsburgh team loaded up a trailer with all the projects they have been working hard on the past few months and headed off to Detroit for Maker Faire. We saw lots of great exhibits and met some amazing people. This Friday we will show off some of the projects we took [...]