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  • A washed-out image of the Sphinx in Egypt, screen captured from an analog video tape

    📼 Analog A/V Session

    📼 Analog A/V Session
    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Come experiment with VHS tapes and audio cassettes! We'll have equipment on hand for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog transfers. Register: Stay tuned for next time!

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Coffee mug with the trans flag printed on it (pastel blue, pastel pink, and white stripes)

    ☕️ Coffee Talk

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

    A social hangout every first and third Monday for trans and non-binary people, their significant others, and allies. We have snacks and coffee.

  • 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 […]

  • A Neo-6M GPS device, with a blue microcontroller board connected by a wire to a square metal antenna unit

    📍 Offline GPS Unit Workshop

    📍 Offline GPS Unit Workshop
    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    In this workshop you'll build a device that displays your GPS coordinates and the current time, without connecting to the internet or transmitting anything. 100% passive and off-grid, no internet […]

  • Flyer with an illustration of a circle A anarchy symbol made of cross-stitch Xes, with the following text: ANARCHIST SEWING CLUB 2nd Sundays 3–5 pm Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., PHL

    🧵 Anarchist Sewing Club

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

    Interested in learning to sew, mend or make clothes? Already know how and wanna hang out with people while sewing? Come and join us! Sewing supplies and a sewing machine […]

  • Old-fashioned website screen capture with a repeated picture of a cloud in the background: Welcome To The *Making Your First Website* Workshop Learn HTML and create a home page on Neocities! Total beginners welcome! Iffy Books / Ragman WARNING: this page is under construction

    🚧 Make Your First Website

    🚧 Make Your First Website
    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • A washed-out image of the Sphinx in Egypt, screen captured from an analog video tape

    📼 Analog A/V Session

    📼 Analog A/V Session
    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Come experiment with VHS tapes and audio cassettes! We'll have equipment on hand for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog transfers. Register:

  • Flyer for the Slow Living Support Group, with illustrations of a fountain pen, a journal, yarn with knitting needles, and the following text: For people who value connection, sustainability, and creativity -- without AI. Bring: - writing projects - craft projects - books & book recommendations - CDs Do not bring: - screens Provided: - zine-making supplies - snacks

    🐌 Slow Living Support Group

    🐌 Slow Living Support Group
    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    For people who value connection, sustainability, and creativity -- without AI. Bring: • writing projects • craft projects • books & book recommendations • CDs Do not bring: • screens […]

  • 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 Beginner Tech Meetup

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

    FAFIO is a 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. FAFIO means there is […]

  • An illustration of an assembled Digital Notebook Kit on a solderless breadboard: a microSD card port, an OLED screen, and an ESP32-C3 microcontroller unit, all connected with purple and orange wires

    📓 DIY Digital Notebook Workshop

    📓 DIY Digital Notebook Workshop
    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    In this workshop you’ll build a digital notebook, a pocket-sized device for taking notes with a USB keyboard. We’re using affordable, widely available components: a Seeed XIAO ESP32-S3 microcontroller, a […]

  • A washed-out image of the Sphinx in Egypt, screen captured from an analog video tape

    📼 Analog A/V Session

    📼 Analog A/V Session
    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Come experiment with VHS tapes and audio cassettes! We'll have equipment on hand for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog transfers. Register:

  • Coffee mug with the trans flag printed on it (pastel blue, pastel pink, and white stripes)

    ☕️ Coffee Talk

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

    A social hangout every first and third Monday for trans and non-binary people, their significant others, and allies. We have snacks and coffee.

  • 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 […]

  • Flyer with a drawing of a calendar with a picture of a piece of cake, and the following text in colorful bubble letters: Iffy Books 5th Birthday Party!! Fri, Sept 25th 8 PM 'til midnight Vox Populi Black Box Space 319 N. 11th St., PHL $5 for Patreon supporters, otherwise $15 DJs! Nila Paradise Ishtar Sr. & more! Dancing! Drinks! Raffles! Tickets at https://iffybooks.net/5th

    🎉 Iffy Books 5th Birthday Party at Vox!

    Vox Populi Black Box Space 319 N. 11th St. Floor 3, Philadelphia, United States

    🎶 Join us for a dance party celebrating 5 years of Iffy Books! We'll be at the Vox Populi Black Box space (down the hall from our first location) on […]

  • A black QWERTY keyboard with stickers on some of the keys, turning it into a low-cost DJ controller for the open source program Mixxx

    🔊 DJ Basixxx with Mixxx

    🔊 DJ Basixxx with MIXXX
    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    An introduction to Mixxx, a free and open source DJ program for macOS, Linux, and Windows that supports a wide range of DJ controller devices and audio file formats. You'll […]

  • 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 […]

  • A washed-out image of the Sphinx in Egypt, screen captured from an analog video tape

    📼 Analog A/V Session

    📼 Analog A/V Session
    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Come experiment with VHS tapes and audio cassettes! We'll have equipment on hand for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog transfers. Register:

  • Simplified illustrations of four types of waves: a sine wave in red, a square wave in green, a triangle wave in blue, and a sawtooth wave in purple. CC-BY Omegatron, from Wikipedia.

    🎶 Hack + Jam: Strudel Pattern Language

    🎶 Hack + Jam
    Iffy Books 404 S. 20th St., Philadelphia, United States

    Please join us at the wonderful Iffy Books for this month's edition of our livecoding jam! We will be making music using strudel. NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED! If you have any […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Coffee mug with the trans flag printed on it (pastel blue, pastel pink, and white stripes)

    ☕️ Coffee Talk

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

    A social hangout every first and third Monday for trans and non-binary people, their significant others, and allies. We have snacks and coffee.

  • 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 […]