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 [...]
This Friday at 7pm, Derrick will present a survey of transit planning and mapping tools, as well as discuss the issues, both technical and political, surrounding their use. This event is free and open to the public. HackPittsburgh is located at 1936 Fifth Avenue, in the garage around the back on Watson. (Map image and [...]
Join some fellow knot enthusiasts for an 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, everyone has something to offer and share. First meeting is Thursday, January 13, [...]
Learn how two of the most popular open-source platforms in the universe can talk with each other using the babelfish of bluetooth. This talk is a demonstration of interfacing an Android phone with an Arduino using the Amarino toolkit. Sayan will give an introduction to: Making simple Android applications that can use data from an [...]
It’s been a great year for the shop, and we’re really looking forward to 2011! (There is no public event tonight because of the holiday.) A few of the many things planned for 2011: The PowerWheels “car” has arrived, and has already been (partially) disassembled. We’ll be working on that when everyone gets back from [...]
Join us this Friday, Dec 17th at 7pm to learn how to make origami ornaments! In addition to the ones shown above, there will be several others to choose from. No previous folding/origami experience is necessary, and paper will be provided. If you have some paper/foil/etc. that you’d like to use, please bring it along! [...]
Join us Friday December 10th at 7pm for Matt Jadud’s presentation on Parallel Programming for the Arduino. We’ll have a few laptops and Arduinos available after the presentation for folks to play with, but if you have your own, please do bring them. This event is, like all Friday night events, free and open to [...]
Join us for a music, drinks (cash bar), raffles, and cookies! OTB Bicycle Café, 2518 E Carson Street 7:30pm Tuesday, December 21st Meet our members, see what projects we’ve been doing, and maybe become a member yourself! Our Event Poster for distribution, please promote far and wide! We have three raffle items: A 5-bottle Mead [...]
Tomorrow is the day we’ve been waiting for. We are going to launch our third balloon! We will be meeting at the shop at 8 am to prep and drive to Ohio (somewhere near Columbus). We invite anyone who would like to attend to come join us. If you are going to come along please [...]
Well mother nature frowned on us and we are going to have to postpone the balloon launch for tomorrow. The winds are too high tomorrow and this will make for unstable flight conditions. We will watch the weather and reschedule soon.