Iffy Books | 404 S. 20th St., PHL
hacking, free culture, gardening, zines
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Iffy Books Permacomputing Meetup is every fourth Sunday at 1:00 PM ET. You can join us in person at Iffy Books (404 S. 20th St., PHL) or via Jitsi […]
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 […]
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 […]
We moved our next meeting to Thursday, August 29th. See you then! 2nd and 4th Wednesday each month 6:30-8:30 @ Iffy Books ➡️ Virtual Meetup Link Discord: Email neoluddite@victorgom.es for […]
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 […]
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 Philly 2600 meeting is a monthly gathering of local hackers, phreaks, nerds, geeks, activists, tinkerers, developers, infosec professionals, and other interesting people.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
▶ 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 […]
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 […]
The third Friday of every month from 6–8 p.m. we host a meetup run by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Open Organization of Lockpickers. > Come join us for our […]
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 […]
The Iffy Books Permacomputing Meetup is every fourth Sunday at 1:00 PM ET. You can join us in person at Iffy Books (404 S. 20th St., PHL) or via Jitsi […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join us for a workshop on the basics of recording audio! We’ll discuss mic technique, audio hardware, recording conditions, and software options. Everyone will get a chance to make a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]