Once a niche interest of avant-garde electronic musicians, the practice of modular synthesis has flourished in the hands of a vibrant international community of artists, hobbyists, and weirdos. Electronic Music Machines is a workshop specifically geared towards the modular-curious and anyone with a desire to make electronic music and craves an intuitive, exploratory approach. We […]

We host an intermediate soldering class on the fourth Thursday of every month. We’ll have soldering irons and solder to share for free, as well as DIY electronics kits for sale. Or bring your own project! 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 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. […]

Saturday, August 24th is the Philly Bookstore Crawl! At Iffy Books we're running an open cassette mixtape session all day, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Stop by any time and record a playlist from your phone or laptop to an audio cassette for free. Books in our climate & degrowth section will be 20% […]

On Wednesday, August 28th at 7 p.m. we’ll meet at Iffy Books to discuss All Systems Red by Martha Wells. See you there! In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where […]

On Saturday, August 31st we're hosting a bootleg hacker conference at Iffy Books from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.! We'll spend the whole day watching recorded talks from this summer's hacker conferences (HOPE, DEF CON, etc.) and having impromptu discussions. We're also running a de-branding clinic, helping folks remove unwanted logos from their conference swag. […]

Philadelphia’s first annual Fungadelphia Festival is coming to the Schuylkill Center this September! 🎉 It’ll be a family-friendly, fungi fun filled day with lectures, workshops, vendors, food, crafts, and more. WHEN: Sat., Sep. 7, 11 - 3 WHERE: Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, 8480 Hagy’s Mill Road, Philadelphia, PA

We’re reading Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization by Rodrigo Nunes. How do we organize in a world after both Occupy and the Sanders campaign? A decade ago, a wave of mass mobilisations described as “horizontal” and “leaderless” swept the planet, holding the promise of real democracy and justice for the 99%. […]

On Wednesday, September 11th at 6:30 p.m., Brian Merchant will join us remotely to discuss his book Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. You can attend in person at Iffy Books (404 S. 20th St., PHL) or join the stream here. ➡️ Virtual Meetup Link Discord: Email neoluddite@victorgom.es for […]

On the second Thursday of every month we run a soldering workshop for beginners! Anyone can attend for free, but you’ll need to buy a circuit board with components for $6 to complete the project. Here’s what’s included in the kit: 1 x Weevil-shaped PCB 2 x LEDs 1 x 47k Ohm resistor 1 x […]

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. […]

▶ How-to zine on GitHub Join us for the workshop Host a Website at Home. You’ll learn to run an Apache web server on a single-board computer, letting you host a website from your home internet connection. Then you’ll register a domain name (or create a subdomain for a domain you already own) and set up […]

Join us for a social experiment / collective action / community building event! A night of no phones. No digital photos. No social media. No FOMO. Just face to face fun with your crew and the chance to engage with someone new. We'll have plenty of interactive activities, including • Meditation and breathwork with Monarch […]

Unfortunately we had to move this workshop to Wednesday, October 16th at 6 p.m. We apologize for the inconvenience! This workshop approaches one of the most fundamental components of electronic music-making -- the sequencer -- as a potential creative collaborator. Leveraging a handful of simple algorithms, participants will develop their own interactive digital music software […]

We’re reading Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization by Rodrigo Nunes. How do we organize in a world after both Occupy and the Sanders campaign? A decade ago, a wave of mass mobilisations described as “horizontal” and “leaderless” swept the planet, holding the promise of real democracy and justice for the 99%. […]

Bring a playlist on your phone/computer and we’ll help you record it to an audio cassette tape. We have plenty of tapes! Stop by any time 1-5 p.m. No registration needed! This event is free/by donation.  

Our September book is Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors, a post-colonial fable that features, among other things, a support group for the chosen ones who were, in the end, not chosen.

On the second and fourth Thursday of every month we run a soldering workshop for beginners! You’ll need to buy a circuit board with components for $6 to complete the project. We suggest making a $5–$15 donation for the class, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Here’s what’s included in […]

Join us for a meetup of Meshtastic users in Philly! We'll meet in person at Iffy Books, and we'll be running a live stream so folks can try to join the chat network from home. Beginners are welcome! We'll have LoRa transceivers for sale, and a free how-to guide to help you get set up. […]

A talk by Gaia at Iffy Books Wednesday, October 2nd at 6 p.m. Ever been curious as to how your home WiFi works? Maybe you’ve heard of an IP address, but don’t really know where to start. Maybe you want to know why your IP address can tell a website where you live? If any […]

CALL TO ACTION: Join us at our open house at Iffy Books on Oct 3rd from 7pm - 8pm. Come engage with other folks concerned about these overpowered buckets of bolts and get involved with future actions. Let's SHUT IT DOWN. From the Petition to Shut Down Ghost Robotics: Founded in 2015 by two Penn […]