Iffy Books | 404 S. 20th St., PHL
hacking, free culture, gardening, zines
This workshop is postponed 'til September. Stay tuned for the new date! We apologize for the inconvenience. ̶J̶o̶i̶n̶ ̶u̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶T̶h̶u̶r̶s̶d̶a̶y̶,̶ ̶A̶u̶g̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶2̶1̶s̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶r̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶i̶c̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶b̶l̶o̶c̶k̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶n̶t̶i̶n̶g̶!̶ […]
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: coming soon!
The third annual Philly Bookstore Crawl is on Saturday, August 23rd. Can't wait to see y'all!
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 […]
The Speculative Futures Reading Group meets on the last Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m.!
For this workshop you'll use a Pi Pico board and CircuitPython to create a programmable mechanical keyboard with two keys. No soldering experience necessary! To complete this project you'll need […]
Join us and build a tiny solar-powered square wave generator on a breadboard. No soldering required! The workshop is free to attend, but you'll need to purchase a kit for […]
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:
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 […]
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 […]
Join us for a discussion on Marx's Capital by. We'll post the sections we're covering before each meeting. We're reading Paul Reitter's recent translation (Princeton University Press, 2024).
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:
> The Philly 2600 meeting is a monthly gathering of local hackers, phreaks, nerds, geeks, activists, tinkerers, developers, infosec professionals, and other interesting people.
The Homebrew Website Club is canceled this month! See y'all on October 5th. Homebrew Website Club is a growing world-wide network of meetups for everyone who wants to take back […]
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 […]
11Learn 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. […]
Join us Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 p.m. ET for a discussion on Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher. ➡️ Virtual Meetup Link Discord: […]
Join us and build a tiny solar-powered square wave generator on a breadboard. No soldering required! The workshop is free to attend, but you'll need to purchase a kit for […]
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:
The Model Internet Club is back! Join us every third 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 […]
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 […]
Join us Wednesday, September 17th at 7 p.m. for a discussion on the second half of The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century by Tim Weiner (2025). 🎧 Get […]
Come out and get some soldering practice! This time we're assembling a short-range FM transmitter kit with a built-in mic and a 1/8" audio input jack. This project is recommended […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Speculative Futures Reading Group meets on the last Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m.! 🎧 Get the audiobook on Libro.fm In a city addled by climate change and […]
Join us and build a tiny solar-powered square wave generator on a breadboard. No soldering required! The workshop is free to attend, but you'll need to purchase a kit for […]
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:
The Permacomputing + Solarpunk meetup is every other third Wednesday at Iffy Books! You can join us in person (404 S. 20th St., PHL) or remotely via Jitsi Meet. ➡️ […]
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 […]
Join us on Wednesday, October 1st at 6:00 p.m. for the DC215 meetup, featuring a talk on exploiting remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. Stay tuned for more details!
Charging your phone in a public place can be stressful. What if someone is collecting your metadata for marketing purposes? What if they're copying your files or installing malware? A […]
Join us for a night of stripping and splicing electrical wires! You'll learn several techniques for soldering wires together securely, and you'll use heat shrink tubing to keep your splices […]