This Friday (9-30-11) Spare Room Workshop (www.spareroomworkshop.com) will be demonstrating the ins and outs of using a vinyl cutter to turn your designs into stickers, t-shirts, window decals, and more. If you would like to follow along or possibly create your own design then come with Inkscape (inkscape.org) installed on your laptop, don’t worry though [...]
This Friday (09/23/11), the Pittsburgh based owners of the world’s largest street dance store CypherStyles.com will explain how they turned a hobby they loved into a profitable business while developing over 60 popular new products. They will teach the most important principles of new product development and entrepreneurship, while helping HackPGH brainstorm and analyze potential [...]
Friday night at HackPittsburgh it’s a Steve McQueen night: The Great Escape and Bullit. We’ll start with The Great Escape, where the protagonists have to make the tools for their escape. We’ll open the doors at 7 and get the shop in a more comfy movie watching setup. Free and open to everyone so bring [...]
I think when AC/DC wrote all of their songs this is how they intended them to be played, with high voltage sparks. A normal speaker works by moving a cone back and forth to push the air at the right frequency to hear the tone you want. A spark speaker works by turning on and [...]
This Friday (9-2-2011), join us as we celebrate the successful launch of our 4th balloon with more fun with balloons. We have often talked about sending a payload of ping pong balls up with our big balloons and then drop them with messages to people. Friday we are going to try this on a smaller [...]