Do you like coffee? Do you like flying starships through space? Come to HackPittsburgh this Friday where we will be drinking coffee, getting buzzed, and then playing Artemis. The primary focus of the evening will be coffee making. HackPittsburgh member Scott will give a talk about some of the various ways of making coffee, and showing off some coffee making gadgets. Once the talk is complete, we will brew the same coffee beans using different methods so that we can compare and contrast the different results that various types of coffee makers produce. Some of the different tools to be used will be a chemex, french press, vacupot, aeropress, and mokapot. Once we are all nice and wired, we will burn off some of the excess energy and put the caffeine shakes to good use by playing Artemis until we crash.

Free and open to the public! The doors open at 7pm, the event starts at 7:30. We’re located at 1936 5th Avenue, in the garage around back on Watson. Look for our flag above the door.

Photo Credit: Phil Monger (Creative Commons)

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Join us this Friday, for an Instructables sponsored “Build Night” of playing with Conductive Ink from Bare Conductive. Instructables is supplying us with several of the Bare Conductive pens and some pizza.

What we have to do in return:
a) Have fun playing with drawing circuits!
b) Make at least 3 new instructables (they don’t have to be related to the ink, but that would be bonus points).

Take a look at the Bare Conductive Tutorials for ideas.
We have one person volunteering to take photos, and could use a second.

Free and open to the public! The doors open at 7pm, the event starts at 7:30. We’re located at 1936 5th Avenue, in the garage around back on Watson. Look for our flag above the door.

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(Photo by David Darts, PirateBox’s creator, used under CC BY-SA 3.0)
Network in a Box is the modern day electronic equivalent of a dead-drop.
We’ll show you how to set up your own file sharing on the go with PirateBox, which is a computer or a modified router with a battery pack to host files/chat locally.

Free and open to the public! The doors open at 7pm, the event starts at 7:30. We’re located at 1936 5th Avenue, in the garage around back on Watson. Look for our flag above the door.

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Tonight’s talk, Intro to Ropecraft, unfortunately has to be moved to next Friday, April 26th.

Tonight will be this month’s Finish It Friday instead. The shop will be open to the public tonight, so come on by and hang out, get some projects done, or whatever!

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This Friday, April 19th, HackPittsburgh members Scott and Doug will present an introduction to knots, splicing, and general ropecraft. This is the perfect opportunity to come learn some new skills and practice tying knots that are useful for a variety of situations. Maybe you have two pieces of rope that you want to turn into one, longer piece of rope? We’ll teach you how to splice it. Want a loop that won’t slip? A bowline is in your future, my friend. Heck, we might even sing sea shanties.

Free and open to the public! The doors open at 7pm, the event starts at 7:30. We’re located at 1936 5th Avenue, in the garage around back on Watson. Look for our flag above the door.

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