In this class, Marek Michalowski of Dirty Robot Brew Works and Jon Speicher will present the history, techniques, and equipment behind a range of fermented carbonated beverages. As a hands-on activity, we’ll be crafting an old-fashioned root beer from all-natural ingredients. Over the course of the activity, we’ll discuss how the same processes of cooking, [...]
Learn the theory and practice of building a propane-based flame cannon. This class will be taught in two parts. On the first class date (4/18/2010 10am), you will learn you what you need to know about working with propane and propane cannons, both manually- and electronically-fired. On the second class date (4/25/2010 5pm), you will [...]
Thanks to everyone who attended our soft circuits workshop this Saturday, we had a blast! As promised, I’ve started a page of soft circuit resources. It has a list of the materials that we used in the class and some cool sites and projects for inspiration.
Take photos of the event? Be sure to add them [...]
November is going to be a busy month for HackPittsburgh. We’ve got classes happening almost every weekend this month!
Amateur Radio Study Sessions – Mondays, 7pm-8pm
Study for your FCC amateur radio license! We’re currently studying the Technician and General level material. These classes are free, but they are open to members only.
Intro to Soft Circuits – [...]
Interested in enhancing your clothing with electronics? In this introductory class, learn to create soft circuits by sewing with conductive thread. Students will create a light-up cuff bracelet from industrial felt, battery, and LEDs.
No previous experience with sewing, electronics, computing, or soldering is needed.
Participants with favorite sewing scissors and needlenose/beading pliers should bring them, however [...]
Starting Monday, October 12th, HackPittsburgh president Matt Stultz is running members-only training classes for Amateur Radio Service (a.k.a. Ham radio) license certification.
Yesterday marked the first of these classes, with Matt running about 5 students through some of the question pools for the Technician class examination. Matt drilled us on questions about FCC licensing requirements and [...]
UPDATE: Your last day to register for this class is Monday, Oct. 19th!
Want to learn basic video editing so that you can get your upcoming Zombie film finished in time for Halloween? Taught by HackPittsburgh member Lori Hepner, this class will teach you the basics of video editing using iMovie ‘09 so that you can [...]
One of our students after the class on Saturday went home and had some fun with his Freeduino.
Thanks for sending this in to us Steve (and thanks for the link in the video). This is the kind of stuff that makes doing all this fun.
This past Saturday, July 25th, Hack Pittsburgh held the second run of the “Introduction to Arduino” Class, the first class to actually be taught at the Hack Pittsburgh space!
Matt Stultz, with a bit of backup from Jon Speicher, Marty McGuire, and the Solder Cam led a class of 7 students in constructing and testing out [...]
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 building a small, functional circuit
write code that:
explores the inputs and outputs offered by the Arduino platform
reads a dimmer
controls the color of an RGB LED
sends messages to your laptop [...]
