We’re proud to announce that we’re offering our Physical Pixel class in March ’12! Intro to Programming the Arduino: Physical Pixels Led by shop member Doug. Build a physical pixel with your Arduino microcontroller. In this introductory-level class, participants will: set up and configure the Arduino environment on their laptop learn basic electronics skills while [...]
This Friday at HackPittsburgh marks the triumphant return of Finish It Friday! Got a project that just needs a bit more attention before you can officially declare it finished? Could you use some inspiration to Just Get It Done? Bring your projects and start finishing things at 7pm. For those who feel they have nothing [...]
Join us on Friday, Jan 27th to learn about electric guitar pickups, amplifiers, etc. Shop member Luc will be showing off his one-string electric guitar and going over the parts and principles behind it. Luc was first runner up in the Dec 2012 Cool-off, and we’re glad he can give us a more in-depth explanation [...]
Join us Friday January 20th to learn how to use these analog mechanical calculators. While mostly supplanted by digital electronics, many speciality slide rules are still in use today. We’ll have several different kinds on hand to show the wide-variety, and also to provide hands-on experience using them. Thanks to the generosity of shop member [...]
Join us this Friday (1/13/2012) for an Introduction to Welding with shop member Gabe. Gabe will cover a little of the history of welding, safety, different welding processes: Tig, Mig, Arc, and some key terms to each. He’ll go into details on the welder and welding processes we have in the shop: Mig and fluxcore [...]
The Maker/Hacker movement is exploding all around the globe, including right here in Pittsburgh. What is a Hackerspace? Why should I join? What will I get out of it and how? Join us this Friday (1/6/12) and we’ll answer those questions. We’ll cover some of the projects we did last year; we’ll talk about some [...]
It’s the time of year to look back over, celebrate, and briefly recap what we’ve done in 2011. THANK YOU to everyone who made this a great year! Special THANK YOUs to the non-members who came in to give talks and demos and who helped us bring new folks in to see the shop and [...]
We’re proud to announce that we’re offering two classes in February ’12! and Learn to Solder: Arduino! – Sat Feb 11th Led by shop member Matt B. We will guide you through the process of building an Arduino from a kit. This class will teach you to solder or help you practice your skills if [...]
Thanks to shop member Sarita(*) we now have a flag pole mount where we can “Hoist the Colors” when we’re in the shop for meetings and other events. The flag can be flown at an angle, or horizontally for even better visibility. (*) shown operating the experimental hoisting pole for a horizontal presentation.
Thanks for checking us out! We run free and open to the public events every Friday night. Scroll down the list here to see what we are planning and what we have been doing. We owe a huge thanks to Hans Scharler (@scharler) of IOBridge who came in to the shop last Friday to film [...]