Friday Night Archives

Friday, March 8th – Artemis Spaceship Simulator

Have you ever wanted to be part of a spaceship crew? Here’s your chance! This Friday at HackPittsburgh, we will be playing Artemis, the Spaceship Bridge Simulator. From the website (http://www.artemis.eochu.com/): Artemis is a multiplayer, multi-computer networked game for Windows computers. Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the…

Green Clean!

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…

Crafts of Some Kind

This Friday night we will be hosting Crafts of Some Kind. Come on over and get out of the crappy weather to enjoy some knitting, crocheting, paper mache, or what ever kind of craft makes you happy. This is a come show off your favorite craft event but we will also have people who might…

History of Robotics

Come join us this Friday (11-19-2010) as our member Jeff Kramer takes us on a fast paced and fun journey through the history of robotics. Jeff will be focusing this presentation on the advancements in intelligent robots. We will open the shop at 7pm and the presentation will start shortly there after. This is a…

World Maker Faire Roundup

This Friday night at 7pm at HackPittsburgh we will be sharing our stories and thoughts on the recent World Maker Faire in New York City. Stop by to hang out and see some photos and hear the tales. We all had a lot of fun but if you couldn’t make it we would be happy…

TCP Hack Foo: NetCat and Nmap Too

TCP Hack Foo: NetCat and Nmap Too TCP and IP too Require a significant amount of foo But if you listen to our chat, You too will have mastered that. We will talk of ports, probes and network mapping. We’ll do our best to keep you from napping. NMAP techniques for the sages, we’ll teach…

Friday 08-20-10

We don’t have an activity or a speaker planned for tonight but that doesn’t mean we won’t be there hanging out and getting stuff done. Lots of us have projects we are working on and things we want to do, so come down to the shop starting at 7pm to join in, you never know…

From Idea to Sale

How to turn an idea into a salable product. This Friday night (7-9-10) come hear HackPittsburgh member Matthew Beckler talk about how his company, Wayne and Layne, LLC, took an idea and developed it into a product, using their first electronics kit, the Tactile Metronome, as an example. Topics to be discussed include market research,…