We'll be closed on Thursday, November 27th. But we'll be here on Friday!

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 […]

Join us for a workshop on one-time pad encryption! We'll walk you through a technique for sending truly private messages without a computer, using 6-sided dice to generate random numbers. We'll use an encoder/decoder sheet that fits on a single sheet of paper and can be recreated from memory. You can find the workshop materials […]

At this workshop you'll learn to create passphrase-protected files using OpenSSL, a command-line program that's probably already installed on your computer. With this technique you can send encrypted files via email/Dropbox, then share the passphrase with the recipient on a secure channel (e.g., Signal). Useful for avoiding surveillance & data mining! Save message: echo "My […]

The Speculative Futures Reading Group meets on the last Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m.! This month we're discussing Planetes Book 1 by Makoto Yukimura. (Illustrated by Makoto Yukimura, translated by Yuki Johnson, adapted by Anna Wenger & Brendan Wright.)

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! This month we'll be learning some basic command-line skills! Feel free to come and work on something else!

See y'all at B-Sides!

Learn to make an animated SVG file using a plaintext editor and web browser. No fancy tools needed! Geany text editor Register

Learn to make an animated SVG file using a plaintext editor and web browser. No fancy tools needed! Geany text editor Register

Make a home page like it's 1999! Join us at Iffy Books for a new workshop called Make Your First Website, led by Ragman a.k.a. Richard Green. You'll learn the basics of HTML and create a static site on the free hosting service Neocities. No experience necessary! Please bring a laptop if you have one. […]

Learn to make an animated SVG file using a plaintext editor and web browser. No fancy tools needed! Geany text editor Sublime Text Happy Birthday example file Register

➡️ 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 […]

➡️ 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 […]

In this workshop you'll learn the basics of soldering by building a tiny oscillator circuit with two transistors and two LED lights. No previous experience needed! Register:  

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 […]

We're canceling the Writing Room this week due to the freezing weather, and we're taking the next couple weeks off for the holidays. We'll be back in January! 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In this workshop you'll learn the basics of soldering by building a tiny oscillator circuit with two transistors and two LED lights. No previous experience needed! Register:  

Bring a playlist on your phone/computer and we’ll help you record it to an audio cassette tape. We have plenty of tapes to share! Register:  

Bring a playlist on your phone/computer and we’ll help you record it to an audio cassette tape. We have plenty of tapes to share! Register:

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

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:

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:

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 […]

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. […]

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