This Friday (11/11), join us at HackPittsburgh and *make your own candle*! Come one, come all, and festivize your Thanksgiving Day turkey (or tofurkey) table! HackPittsburgh members Doug Philips and Mandy Stultz will walk you through the process. We’ll be using all-natural soy wax for low-soot burning, super-easy process and virtually foolproof results (yep, it’s [...]
Friday November 4th, we will show you how to get started with OpenSCAD to create parametric 3D models. With a few lines of code, you can quickly create objects that are easily scalable and adjustable with a simple change of parameters. OpenSCAD is a popular tool on sites such as Thingiverse.com for creating 3D printable [...]
Well the plastic for tonight’s event failed to arrive on time. We will still be open and having fun but our planned activity will not be happening. Feel free to stop in and hang out to work on your Halloween costume or any other project. Who knows what will spontaneously arise.
Lots of great stuff going on in Pittsburgh this weekend with Art && Code and Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire but we are still open! We invite you to join us tonight (10-21-11), for a few episodes of the best space cowboy show ever made, Firefly. We will open the doors to the public for this [...]
The team from Obscure Games (ObscureGamesPGH.com) will be in this Friday (10-07-11) to show some of the crazy games they have created in the past and talk about how games can be used as social tools. During the event they will explain how to make your own games by having everyone participate in creating a new [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]