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 [...]
Are you trying to “go green?” Do you want to reduce the overall amount of toxic chemicals that are part of your home? Are you interested in learning how you can make your own at home at a fraction of the cost of buying these products at the store? Come to HackPittsburgh on Friday, July [...]
Tonight at HackPittsburgh it’s a Sci-Fi night. We will have a collection of movies and those in attendance can pick what they want to watch (Don’t worry Mr. Lucas none of your films will be shown, you have ruined them for us anyways). We will open the doors at 7 and get the shop in [...]
This Friday night at 7pm HackPittsburgh member Chris Teodorski will be presenting his recent work with Kippo. Kippo is a medium interaction SSH honeypot. Chris has been running Kippo for awhile now and he’s discovered some interesting and unusual things. For his talk, he will present a brief intro to Kippo, an explanation of how [...]
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 [...]
On Friday, May 13 Joshua Smith along with members of the Python PGH group will be hosting a Python code sprint at HackPGH. If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to an open source project but didn’t know where to start, now is your chance. Don’t worry if your python skills are shaky or non-existent, you [...]