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 [...]
Join us this Friday, July 1st, for a talk and demonstration of a Do-It-Yourself Vacuform table! What good is a Vacuform table? You can make your own masks, costumes, tool and parts trays, jello molds, ice-cube trays, candle molds… the list goes on. We’ll go over our current table design and construction as well as [...]
This Friday we will be closed to the public for the holiday weekend. Many of us will be away, off enjoying the beginning of the summer and hopefully some nice weather. Join us next Friday when we will continue our series of free events.
After the great success and feedback from our talk on using electroluminescent wire — aka EL wire — for costumes and projects, we are following up with a class on Using EL Wire for Costuming and Decoration. In this class you will receive ten feet of EL wire in two colors, an EL wire controller, [...]
The shop will be closed to the public tonight for a members only event. Please come join us again soon when when we will be back open again.
This, third meeting (Knot More!) is Thursday, Mar 10, 7-9 pm Join some fellow knot enthusiasts for a very informal evening of skillshare and practice. We’ll bring books and cordage, and you do the same if you can. Whether you are a seasoned sailor, a novice climber, an expert arborist, or new to it all, [...]
CMKT 4 (http://www.facebook.com/cmkt4) a “Prehistoric Circuit Bent Acid Rock ” band will be stopping at HackPittsburgh on their circuit bending tour (http://www.getlofi.com/?p=4200). They will be hosting a workshop where you can build their Bottle-cap Microphone or “Bending Buddy” kits. There will also be a performance by CMKT 4 to keep everyone entertained while the irons [...]
This, second meeting (Knot Again!) is Thursday, Feb 10, 7-9 pm Join some fellow knot enthusiasts for a very informal evening of skillshare and practice. We’ll bring books and cordage, and you do the same if you can. Whether you are a seasoned sailor, a novice climber, an expert arborist, or new to it all, [...]
Join us this Friday for a free and open to the public intro to Inkscape and Egg-Bott by member Matt B: Inkscape is an open-source vector image editor, capable of making high-quality, images that can be scaled to any size without losing quality. It’s an open-source replacement for Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, and others. This talk [...]