Iffy Books | 404 S. 20th St., PHL
hacking, free culture, gardening, zines
The Model Internet Club meets again on Friday, July 14th, 6–9 p.m. Our goal is to build an offline network for fun and learning. At our last meeting we settled on a design for our network (below). We're just getting started on building it, so newcomers are welcome!
We're hosting an open zine printing session on Saturday, July 15th at 1:00 p.m.! We'll help you turn your zine design into a print-imposed PDF and print ~200 sheets for free. Printing supplies are provided by a grant from the Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility at Swarthmore College, arranged by recent graduate Pixel Stone. […]
On Sunday, July 16th at 1 p.m. we’re running a free 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 recording with Audacity and start editing with Reaper. We’ll have a computer available for everyone who signs up. Register:
Come out on Friday, July 21st and celebrate Iffy Books's 2nd birthday! We'll have music and drinks from 6–10 p.m. Hope to see you there! Photo by JanetMcK | CC BY 2.0
Our next permacomputing meetup is on Sunday, July 23rd at 1:00 PM EDT. You can join us in person at Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St. #2I, PHL) or via Jitsi Meet. ➡️ Meetup Link From Permacomputing.net: Permacomputing is a more sustainable approach to computer and network technology inspired by permaculture. Permacomputing is both a concept and a community […]
On Sunday, July 23rd at 3:30 p.m. we're hosting a workshop on creating charts and graphs with the Python programming language. We'll use the modules matplotlib and seaborn to create a range of common plots: histogram, pie chart, bar graph, line graph, and scatter plot. We'll use Jupyter Notebook to keep our code organized. This […]
Time and Place: 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month 6:30–8:30 p.m. @ Iffy Books ➡️ Virtual Meetup Link Contact: neoluddite@victorgom.es @notnaughtknot Discord: Email neoluddite@victorgom.es for an invite! You may have played around with chatGPT, or perhaps even used DALL-e to generate images from text. Though Large Language Models have been around since 2018, they're currently […]
On Wednesday, July 26th at 7:oo p.m. we'll meet to discuss The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin. See you there! Get the audiobook on Libro.fm.
On Thursday, July 27th from 6–8 p.m. we're hosting an open soldering session. If you've been meaning to get a soldering project done, now's your chance! We'll have soldering irons and solder to share for free, as well as DIY electronics kits for sale. If you're looking for a step-by-step introduction to soldering, we're hosting […]
We’re hosting a virtual meetup on Thursday, July 27th at 7 p.m. to help Meshtastic users get connected. Our goal is to make a wireless chat network across the PHL area using low-power LoRa radios. To join the network, you’ll need a LoRa radio such as a Heltec LoRa32, LILYGO LoRa32, or LILYGO T-Beam. Here’s a full list of compatible devices. ➡️ Meetup link Here’s a link […]
Router Hack Day III is Saturday, July 29th! Now that we have a working OpenWRT firmware build for the routers we've been working on, we'll show everyone how to install it. And then the fun begins! Here's our how-to guide for Saturday:➡️ Install OpenWrt on your Atlas Media Router
On Sunday, July 30th at 1:00 p.m. we’re hosting an introduction to Meshtastic, an application that lets you send private text messages over the air using pocket-sized LoRa radios. Here’s a link to our updated zine on LoRa + Meshtastic. If you have a LoRa radio (or reserve one below), we’ll show you how to flash the latest Meshtastic firmware […]
We’re hosting a virtual meetup on Thursday, August 3rd at 7 p.m. to help Meshtastic users get connected. Our goal is to make a wireless chat network across the PHL area using low-power LoRa radios. To join the network, you’ll need a LoRa radio such as a Heltec LoRa32, LILYGO LoRa32, or LILYGO T-Beam. Here’s a full list of compatible devices. ➡️ Meetup link Here’s a link […]
The Philly 2600 meetup will be at Iffy Books on Friday, August 4th, starting at 6:00 p.m. > The Philly 2600 meeting is a monthly gathering of local hackers, phreaks, nerds, geeks, activists, tinkerers, developers, infosec professionals, and other interesting people. There won't be a Philly TOOOL Meetup this month. Sorry about that! The next one will be on […]
Time and Place: 2nd & 4th Tuesday each month 6:30–8:30 p.m. @ Iffy Books ➡️ Virtual Meetup Link Contact: neoluddite@victorgom.es @notnaughtknot Discord: Email neoluddite@victorgom.es for an invite! You may have played around with chatGPT, or perhaps even used DALL-e to generate images from text. Though Large Language Models have been around since 2018, they're currently […]
On Thursday, August 10th at 6:00 p.m. we’re running 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 […]
Saturday, August 12th, 12–4 p.m. at Iffy Books Unlock your making potential with the Hive76, Philly’s member owned and operated makerspace! Learn how to use laser cutters, 3D printers, and electronic equipment to cut, fabricate, and wire up your next project. Hive76 is a community of makers and crafters organized around a shared workspace. We […]
Face masks required! Presented by Untitled Medical Collective in association with Philly SRA, Bleeding Control Basics will go over first aid as it applies to severe bleeding. We will cover scene safety, injury assessment, basic bleeding control, and tourniquet application. This class doesn’t provide any kind of certification, and is just meant to provide essential […]
The Model Internet Club meets again on Saturday, August 19th, 1–5 p.m. Our goal is to build an offline network for fun and learning. Newcomers are welcome! At our last meeting we set up a DHCP server, which will handle assigning IP addresses when new devices join the network. We have two or three websites running […]
Our monthly permacomputing meetup is on Sunday, August 20th at 1:00 PM EDT. You can join us in person at Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St. #2I, PHL) or via Jitsi Meet. See you there! ➡️ Meetup Link From Permacomputing.net: Permacomputing is a more sustainable approach to computer and network technology inspired by permaculture. Permacomputing is both a […]
On Thursday, August 24th from 6–8 p.m. we're hosting an intermediate soldering session. 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:
The Speculative Futures Reading Group meets on Wednesday, August 30th at 7 p.m. to discuss The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin. See you there!
Most of the art galleries in our building have postponed their First Friday openings to September 8, to avoid falling on Labor Day weekend. We'll be here 5–9 p.m. on Friday, September 1, opening slightly later than usual. We'll be closed on Saturday, 9/2 and Sunday, 9/3.
Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) 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 chargers, notepads, etc.
On Friday, September 8th at 6 p.m. we’re hosting a meetup run by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Open Organization of Lockpickers. > Come join us for our monthly Open Pick Night at Iffy Books! Whether you’re a novice who just stumbled upon LockpickingLawyer, a seasoned safecracker, or somewhere in between, come join us for a evening of […]
Stop by Iffy Books any time from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, September 9th and make a DIY Faraday shield for your phone! It's a quick project using aluminum foil and construction paper. When your phone is inside, you can be fairly sure it's isolated from radio communication via wi-fi, Bluetooth, and the cell […]
On Saturday, September 9th at 7 p.m. we're hosting a reading and Q&A with E.G. Condé, author of the novel Sordidez. Hope to see you there! E.G. Condé is an anthropologist of technology and an emerging speculative fiction writer of the Puerto Rican diaspora. His short fiction appears in If There’s Anyone Left, Reckoning, EASST […]
On Sunday, September 10th at 1:00 p.m. we’re hosting an introduction to Meshtastic, an application that lets you send private text messages over the air using pocket-sized LoRa radios. Here’s a link to our updated zine on LoRa + Meshtastic. If you have a LoRa radio (or reserve one below), we’ll show you how to flash the latest Meshtastic firmware […]
Our next permacomputing meetup is on Sunday, September 10th at 3:30 PM EDT. You can join us in person at Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St. #2I, PHL) or via Jitsi Meet. ➡️ Meetup Link From Permacomputing.net: Permacomputing is a more sustainable approach to computer and network technology inspired by permaculture. Permacomputing is both a concept and a […]
Wednesdays 5–8 p.m. (5–7 p.m. the last Wednesday of the month) 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 chargers, notepads, etc.
On Thursday, September 14th at 6:00 p.m. we’re running 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 miniature photocell […]
We’re hosting a virtual meetup on Thursday, September 14th at 7 p.m. to help Meshtastic users get connected. Our goal is to make a wireless chat network across the PHL area using low-power LoRa radios. To join the network, you’ll need a LoRa radio such as a Heltec LoRa32, LILYGO LoRa32, or LILYGO T-Beam. Here’s a full list of compatible devices. ➡️ Meetup link Here’s a link […]
The Model Internet Club meets again on Sunday, September 17th, 1–5 p.m. Newcomers are welcome. The network is up and running! We now have a DHCP server, a DNS server with custom domain names, and handful of websites running as virtual hosts in Apache. There's a local bulletin board in the works, and we're considering our […]
