Maxine Van Nortwick
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- Aug 7, 2026
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Beyond prepping: Why hundreds of Western PA residents are joining a low-cost mesh radio network (opens the original)
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Southwestern Pennsylvania’s WPAMesh is turning emergency communication into something unexpected: a community activity that’s as fun as it is practical. From Erie to West Virginia, members are purchasing hardware and joining the mesh radio network to prepare for a natural disaster or cell tower crisis. Between crises, though, a vibrant community has formed. “It’s one of the cheapest things you can do to make sure that you can still communicate with one another in an emergency. So, absolutely, th
Shelfmark raises $3.5M to scale physical AI and hire in Pittsburgh (opens the original)
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Uptown-based physical AI company Shelfmark raised a $3.5 million seed round, with plans to scale local hiring. Over the next 18 months, the company will use the funding to grow the team by roughly half a dozen people as part of its strategy to increase sales and product delivery, Pat O’Donnell, cofounder and CEO of Shelfmark, told Technical.ly. Finding the perfect fit for those roles is another story, as the company hunts for technologists in the area looking to grow with its physical AI and man
How board games and disassembled microwaves led Jason Okerman to found a robotics startup (opens the original)
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This is How I Got Here, a series where we chart the career journeys of technologists, entrepreneurs, tech workers, builders and people in the innovation economy. Want to tell your story? Get in touch. Product management is an art — at least for board game designer, engineer and founder Jason Okerman. As an artist, the 39-year-old CEO of Gemba Robotics realized that selling individual originals severely limited his reach. By channeling his best artwork into board games instead, he transformed exc
A 12-year-old Pittsburgh Bitcoin meetup is leaving the hype behind to focus on casual tech conversations (opens the original)
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On the first Wednesday of every month, a Pittsburgh cryptocurrency social club packs into Roland’s Seafood Grill in the Strip District and does exactly what you’d expect — discuss Bitcoin. In its 12 years of existence, though, the group has had to adapt as the conversation has changed. Between a post-pandemic slump in local meetups and cooling interest in crypto, they’ve refocused on what the core group really wants anyway — a chance to talk tech with like-minded folks. “[At the group’s origins]
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