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  • The cover of a recent edition of 'Technics and Civilization' by Lewis Mumford, with blue and yellow overlapping circles superimposed on a photo from the '30s(?) of a train with a giant propeller on the front, with two people standing nearby
    ⚙️ Neo-Luddite Reading Group

    ⚙️ Neo-Luddite Reading Group: ‘Technics and Civilization’ by Lewis Mumford

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    ➡️ Virtual Meetup Link Discord: Email neoluddite@victorgom.es for an invite! Full schedule: victorgom.es/neoluddite If you're joining for the first time, I'd suggest you read this before anything else for brief context: What the Luddites Really Fought Against by Richard Conniff.The only expectation is that you read the chapter(s) of the book that's listed for that […]

  • A drawing of two smiling turtles facing each other, with a wi-fi symbol over their heads. One is wearing a cowboy hat and the other is wearing a little bowler. Both turtles have computers on their backs. The text "Model Internet Club" is at the bottom in a typewriter font.
    🚂 Model Internet Club

    🚂 Model Internet Club

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    The Model Internet Club is back! Join us every second Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for an informal meetup focused on building small-scale computer networks. No registration needed for this event! If we run out of space we can expand into our back yard area.

  • Closeup photo of a zine with the title "Draw with code! An intro to turtle graphics using Python." There's a turtle icon on the middle of the cover with a zig-zagging line coming out of its tail, and several lines of code on the left, such as "left(90)" and "forward(10)." Text on the right says "free zine!" The Iffy Books logo and address (319 N. 11th St. 2I, PHL) are at the bottom right corner.
    Private: 🐢 Draw with code! An intro to turtle graphics using Python

    🐢 Draw with code! An intro to turtle graphics using Python

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Drop in any time from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and learn to draw cool geometric pictures using Python! It's just like Logo, the turtle drawing program that introduced a generation of kids to computers in the '80s and '90s. ☀️ Draw with code! An intro to turtle graphics using Python ☀️ Screen reading PDF […]

  • Flyer with a green background and the following text: The Writing Room @ Iffy Books / Every Tuesday 5-7:30 PM / Come co-work with other writers in three 4-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.
    ✏️ The Writing Room

    ✏️ The Writing Room

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.

  • Pi Pico Development board with red and black wires running to a USB port, attached to the Pico with twist tie wire
    🔄 Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    🔄 Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    In this workshop you'll build a gadget that turns power on and off for a USB-powered device. Useful for rebooting solar-powered radios, making decorations blink, etc. No experience with soldering or programming required! You'll need to buy a kit for $11.50 to complete this project. Here's what it contains: - Pi Pico board with USB-C […]

  • Book cover for 'The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003' by Steve Coll, with a photo of two people standing near barbed with a huge plume of smoke
    👁️ Intelligence History Reading Group: ‘Agents of Subversion’ by

    👁️ Intelligence History Reading Group: ‘The Achilles Trap’ by Steve Coll

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    This month we're readingThe Achilles Trap Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003 by Steve Coll 🎧 Get the audiobook on Libro.fm The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations during […]

  • Pi Pico Development board with red and black wires running to a USB port, attached to the Pico with twist tie wire
    🔄 Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    🔄 Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    In this workshop you'll build a gadget that turns power on and off for a USB-powered device. Useful for rebooting solar-powered radios, making decorations blink, etc. No experience with soldering or programming required! You'll need to buy a kit for $11.50 to complete this project. Here's what it contains: - Pi Pico board with USB-C […]

  • Super close macro photo of a snowflake. CC-BY Alexey Kljatov https://www.flickr.com/photos/chaoticmind75/46796797182/

    ❄️ Closed December 25th

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    We'll be closed on December 25th. Sorry for the inconvenience! Photo CC-BY Alexey Kljatov

  • Flyer with a pink toy keyboard in the background and the following text: Toy Quieting Workshop December 27 & 28 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM 404 S. 20th St., PHL
    🧸 Toy Quieting Workshop

    🧸 Toy Quieting Workshop

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Is there a toy in your house that’s so loud it’s driving you up a wall? Are you just curious about electronics and sound? Join us for a hands-on workshop on how to quiet or silence kids’ electronic toys. Bring an electronic toy to modify and we’ll walk you through the steps. Register:

  • Flyer with a pink toy keyboard in the background and the following text: Toy Quieting Workshop December 27 & 28 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM 404 S. 20th St., PHL
    🧸 Toy Quieting Workshop

    🧸 Toy Quieting Workshop

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Is there a toy in your house that’s so loud it’s driving you up a wall? Are you just curious about electronics and sound? Join us for a hands-on workshop on how to quiet or silence kids’ electronic toys. Bring an electronic toy to modify and we’ll walk you through the steps. Register:

  • Package label with a circuit diagram showing the connections between a Pi Pico development board, a DFplayer MP3 player module, and a speaker. The text reads: Breadboard MP3 Player Kit • Pi Pico board with USB-C port  & pre-soldered header pins • DFplayer MP3 Player module • 3W speaker • 830 tie point breadboard • 2-prong screw terminal • 4 push buttons • single-core wire (20") • mini wire cutter/stripper tool • M2 screw Instructions & MicroPython code at iffybooks.net/breadboard-mp3-player
    🎶 Breadboard MP3 Player Workshop

    🎶 Breadboard MP3 Player Workshop

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Stay tuned for details! Instructions & example code Here's what's included in the kit: Pi Pico board with USB-C port & pre-soldered header pins DFplayer MP3 Player module 3W speaker 830 tie point breadboard 2-prong screw terminal 4 push buttons single-core wire (16″) mini wire cutter/stripper tool M2 screw Here’s what else you’ll need: microSD […]

  • The Meshtastic logo, with the word "Meshtastic" in black
    📡 Meshtastic 101

    📡 Meshtastic 101

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Join us for an introduction to Meshtastic, an application that lets you send private text messages over the air using pocket-sized LoRa radio transceivers. We’ll show you how to flash the latest Meshtastic firmware to the device, customize the settings, and start chatting with your friends. Here’s a link to our zine on LoRa + Meshtastic. […]

  • 1920s(?) era greeting card with an illustration of an old man holding a scythe exiting on the left while a baby stands with its right arm up on the right. Here's the text: GOODBYE OLD YEAR! Good-bye Old Faults, Old Complaints, Old Grievances. - Good-bye Grouches, good-bye Bad Habits, good-bye Pessimism, good-bye Hard-times, Welcome a Fresh-start. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU

    🕰️ Closed January 1st

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    We'll be closed on New Year's Day. Sorry for the inconvenience!

  • The words "Philly 2600" in an old-school digital font
    💻 Philly 2600 Meetup

    💻 Philly 2600 Meetup

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    > The Philly 2600 meeting is a monthly gathering of local hackers, phreaks, nerds, geeks, activists, tinkerers, developers, infosec professionals, and other interesting people.

  • Pi Pico Development board with red and black wires running to a USB port, attached to the Pico with twist tie wire
    🔄 Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    🔄 Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    In this workshop you'll build a gadget that turns power on and off for a USB-powered device. Useful for rebooting solar-powered radios, making decorations blink, etc. No experience with soldering or programming required! You'll need to buy a kit for $11.50 to complete this project. Here's what it contains: - Pi Pico board with USB-C […]

  • '80s style pink glowing text reading "Homebrew Website Club" with a purple triangle and rainbow and grid receding into the background
    🏠 IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club

    🏠 IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back their web experience from social media silos, and own their online identities & content, or just want support with blogging!

  • Flyer with a green background and the following text: The Writing Room @ Iffy Books / Every Tuesday 5-7:30 PM / Come co-work with other writers in three 4-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.
    ✏️ The Writing Room

    ✏️ The Writing Room

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.

  • The symbol of the permacomputing movement, a pixel art flower 7 pixels wide and 9 pixels tall, in white on a black background.
    💾☀️ Permacomputing + Solarpunk Meetup

    💾☀️ Permacomputing + Solarpunk Meetup

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    The Permacomputing + Solarpunk meetup is the first Wednesday every other month at Iffy Books! You can join us in person (404 S. 20th St., PHL) or remotely via Jitsi Meet. ➡️ Virtual meetup link From Permacomputing.net: Permacomputing is a more sustainable approach to computer and network technology inspired by permaculture. Permacomputing is both a concept and a […]

  • Flyer with an icon of a laptop and the following text in pink outlined with green: FAFIO meetup fuck around and figure it out!
    🤔 FAFIO Meetup

    🤔 FAFIO Meetup

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    FAFIO is a new meetup for folks who want to learn new tech skills but aren't sure where to start. Let's fuck around and figure it out! Feel free to come and work on something else!

  • Flyer with an illustration of two people trapped inside a gear, with the following text: Neo-Luddite Reading Group / Iffy Books
    ⚙️ Neo-Luddite Reading Group

    ⚙️ Neo-Luddite Reading Group

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    ➡️ Virtual Meetup Link Discord: Email neoluddite@victorgom.es for an invite! Full schedule: victorgom.es/neoluddite If you're joining for the first time, I'd suggest you read this before anything else for brief context: What the Luddites Really Fought Against by Richard Conniff.The only expectation is that you read the chapter(s) of the book that's listed for that […]

  • A drawing of two smiling turtles facing each other, with a wi-fi symbol over their heads. One is wearing a cowboy hat and the other is wearing a little bowler. Both turtles have computers on their backs. The text "Model Internet Club" is at the bottom in a typewriter font.
    🚂 Model Internet Club

    🚂 Model Internet Club

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    The Model Internet Club is back! Join us every second Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for an informal meetup focused on building small-scale computer networks. No registration needed for this event! If we run out of space we can expand into our back yard area.

  • Flyer with 6 LED lights attached to a Pi Pico development board, with the following text: Pico LED Hourglass Workshop ⌛ Iffy Books A programmable timer for writing, cooking, games, etc.!
    ⏳ Pico LED Hourglass Workshop

    ⏳ Pico LED Hourglass Workshop

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Learn to make a programmable game timer and dice with a Pi Pico microcontroller! First you’ll solder six LEDs, two switches, and a vibration motor to the board’s GPIO pins. Then you’ll install and customize the CircuitPython code that makes it work. No experience needed! You’ll need to buy a kit for $8.50 to complete […]

  • Flyer with a green background and the following text: The Writing Room @ Iffy Books / Every Tuesday 5-7:30 PM / Come co-work with other writers in three 4-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.
    ✏️ The Writing Room

    ✏️ The Writing Room

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Come co-work with other writers in three 40-minute units of silent writing. Writers and projects of any type welcome. 10-minute breaks and accountability check-ins between units. BYO coffee, water, computer chargers, notepads, etc.

  • 💻 Nushell Basics

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Nushell is a modern shell that combines a rich programming language with a fully functional shell for efficient and versatile usage. Register coming soon!

  • Pi Pico Development board with red and black wires running to a USB port, attached to the Pico with twist tie wire
    🔄 Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    🔄 Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler

    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    In this workshop you'll build a gadget that turns power on and off for a USB-powered device. Useful for rebooting solar-powered radios, making decorations blink, etc. No experience with soldering or programming required! You'll need to buy a kit for $11.50 to complete this project. Here's what it contains: - Pi Pico board with USB-C […]