Hey is anyone here next week? I have left up the two meetups on
https://lu.ma/sudoroom
I haven't had time to do a lot of tweeting, but will try... I'm out of town
next week!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi Sudoers:
Heads up that KQED is going to be at Sudoroom tonight to get advance
footage for a Fixit Clinic event Jan 22 at KQED headquarters:
https://www.kqed.org/events/4915/fixit-clinic
Ericka Cruz Guevarra, Host and Producer of KQEDs The Bay podcast
<https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay> will be bringing a clock to be
looked at tonight; that and the other items we might see are at
bit.ly/itemcheckins
Also: someone (Patrik from CCL?) left a Samsung un48J5200AF 48” TV (If
it’s Patrik’s: “It has been having intermittent problems with the screen
going black,”) We also still have the 55” 4K TV, Toshiba Model K550WDR1
/ Toshiba 55l621U disassembled: when power is applied It displays the
splash screen with the logo, and then goes out. It’d be great to get at
least one of these TVs working so we can use it to telepresence people
in to sudorooom.
And we’re building out a core of stewards for Sudoroom’s
Chromebook/laptop refurbishing, conversion to Linux and long-term
support program. I plan to bring some converted and convert-able
Chromebooks to play with tonight. (see http://bit.ly/cbsave.)
Let’s put on a great show!
See you later, -Peter
Hi all,
I used to live in Oakland 9 years ago (wow…), of when I used to attend hack nights at Sudoroom and participate in festivities.
I play my own blend of modular psytech. I brought a small backpack hardware setup. If anyone wants to jam between now and Friday nite.
Also planning on taking my battery-powered rig to Dolores park or Lake Merrit to play a set, which is usually a consistent 137bpm. Control voltage and analog contraptions highly encouraged.
Cheers. And continue hacking the Planet ✊🖖
Oh, a link to my music can be found here:
https://on.soundcloud.com/tvfeR3bSHFEyRr4s7
I have a 50" TV that I'd like to donate to Sudo.
It has been having intermittent problems with the screen going black. I
don't have time to chase down the issue, but maybe someone there can
diagnose the problem during one of the FixIt clinics.
Shall I drop it off?
Patrik
Hello everyone, I think we aight to have a meeting today despite the cold
rain. Who can come out?
I'm sorry I didn't call this earlier, I've just started a new job and I've
been so busy. Anyone know how useable the sudo room is with the work being
done?
See you soon, drive carefully with all the wetness.
William
Hi everyone,
I seem to be plagued with too many electric vehicles, from about 10-20 years
ago. They are really cool and fun to drive, but they need work and I'm out of
space and time to store and work on them.
Most of them are 2002 Toyota RAV4 EVs, which many people don't even know were
ever made. Here's the wikipedia page on them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV#First_generation_(1997)
If you have a place to park a project car and interest in working on one,
please let me know. If you are a PG&E customer, you can get up to $4000
(depending on your income) for buying a used EV like this (whether it drives
or not)
I will be fixing mine and my friend's over the next few months and I can help
you fix yours too. Just let me know if you're interested.
-jake
Hi,
The roof repairs are still going on, and we are getting A LOT of the tar
debris in sudo room. We did some cleanup Saturday and Monday, but I'm sure
there will be more debris coming down, and it will be a lot of work to get
the lab benches clear again.
We put up one more tarp, but more would be great to cover all the lab
benches.
Also Thurs/Friday Free Store + CALLI (building owners) are running this
event. If Sudo Room has items wanting to give away, we could join. I'll be
there on Friday if anyone would like to coordinate.
[image: signal-2024-12-02-100232_002.jpeg]
Paige
Hi all, I've been trying to find a Mini-XLR Female to 3.5mm Female adapter
but I haven't been able to find one. There were a few on Amazon but the
reviews all said the left and right audio were reversed...
My current idea is to instead purchase a Mini-XLR Female replacement head
and solder on a 3.5mm Female head with attached cable. But I see different
cable styles attached to the 3.5mm, there is a 2 cable version and also 3
cable version? And it sounds like this is Mono vs Stereo? But the XLR talks
about "Ground, Hot, and Cold" and I can't tell how this maps onto the 3.5mm
cabling? If we have any people knowledgeable about audio cabling would love
help untangling this mystery, thanks!
Gr33t1ngs
I’m Hex Ripley [it / its]
I came in yesterday (nov 26) for the fix it clinic, had a lot of fun meeting y’all and working on to virtual machine set ups, working on the upstairs 3D printer, & helping come up with a solution to fix the roof rack cargo box.
I’d like to be a member to contribute monetarily and with labor. I love doing electronics repair and I want to make use of my skills in a way that can help others. I’d love to participate in the fix it clinic regularly & also I’d be happy to work on the laptops in order to get them functioning for donation, teach people some electronic troubleshooting & repair should the opportunity be available. Also happy to be additional hands on any facilities work. Basically I think y’all are cool and I’m here to be useful :)
Want to mention that I live in Guerneville, happy to drive in & also would be happy to carpool people who live in the Sonoma/Marin area as well.
Current projects I’ve got going:
I have an IBM Thinkpad 701c (the one with the cool keyboard!!!) that I want to restore - failing that, it will be up-cycled with a more modern motherboard & screen, preserving the keyboard.
Other Projects in various stages of incompleteness:
- USB-C to Barrel Jack chargers
- search.server.lgbt (my SearxNG instance, google/ddg search proxy)
- 2010 Lenovo ThinkServer Rebuild (may end up in a colocation center… eventually?)
- Ender 3 repairs (never ending ;-;)
- iPhone powered Pwnagotchi case
- Mini Model M keyboard cyber deck
- punk.lgbt (lgbt / womens healthcare resource directory, not up currently, looking into threat model)
https://youtu.be/lczgUj4InX0?si=Bcl4yUdxnin3ZLpG
This is really cool there’s this guy in Oakland growing tons of food on his roof does anyone at Sudoroom know him it be cool to feature him on our page and maybe say hi I don’t know if he’s open to that though he looks sort of busy but this is really cool we could possibly do a collaboration inspired by him and work with Counterculture Labs
Sent from my iPhone
Dear Sudoroom,
It's been almost three years since this telescreen was set up with Jitsi, on
the wall in sudoroom. A few months ago the computer got taken, so I set up a
new one, and Matty is trying to get the automated software working again so
it's automatic and turns the screen off when no one is joined.
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Bigtv
How do people feel about the telescreen? Do people like having this in place
so that people can connect with the space from elsewhere? How could it be
improved?
Also a reminder, we have a telephone and the number is I-HACK-AT-386
For a while the telephone was switching off but i recently made something that
automatically reboots it when that happens, so it should be pretty reliable
now.
-jake
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:18:15 -0800
From: ruin mechanic via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org>
Reply-To: ruin mechanic <ruinmechanic(a)gmail.com>
To: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org>
Subject: [sudo-discuss] Re: Jitsi telescreen setup in sudoroom!
Rejoice in the hacker wizardry of the new Telepresence Portal
Jake and I wrapped it up today and hackerspace futurism has been achieved
the monitor will turn on if any Sudoers join the jitsi chatroom
and it will shut off if everyone leaves the chat
here is the source for the chat client app powering it
https://github.com/sudoroom/jitsi-telepresence-portal
hooray!
-matty/interrupt
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:50 PM Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
> wow, this has progressed a lot!
>
> tonight, in the jitsi chat, which is here:
> https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
>
> matt and me (to the entertainment of everyone passing through sudoroom and
> working in there) have been chatting and co-hacking, and i've been learning
> npm/node/react web stuff.
>
> basically we installed the jitsi SDK repo and ran it, and then hacked it
> to go
> to the meeting room we've been using instead of the default setting - and
> now
> we're adding a function to it to automatically control the screen power
> (screensaver) depending on whether someone is in the "room" or not.
>
> we're also sharing a tmux window in the machine (the one controlling the
> big
> TV) and teaching each other lots of stuff. And neither of us are
> physically in
> the space!
>
> It's the most exciting saturday night i've had in a long time!
>
> If anyone else is interested in this kind of social hacking, speak up and
> i'll
> ping you if it happens again. Or just join the jitsi room (linked above)
> and
> leave it open until someone starts talking to you.
>
> last night (friday night) we had a bunch of people join the chat!!!
> including
> a couple of people who randomly hadn't seen each other in almost 5 years!
> It was basically a party, including whoever was in sudoroom, and like 6
> different people who rolled through the jitsi chat.
>
> -jake
>
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, Jake wrote:
>
>> awesome! I believe this is what Matty is working on too
>>
>> https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-web-sdk
>>
>> that was so much fun with everyone talking to each other tonight!
>>
>> -jake
>>
>> On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, Marc Juul wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 11:54 PM Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 1:37 AM Jake wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've set up a jitsi terminal on the wall in Sudoroom!
>>>>>
>>>>> It's a big TV made by Hitachi, and it has a feature where it can go
> into
>>>>> "power saving" mode when the HDMI signal is lost. That means the
> screen
>>>>> can power down when DPMS puts the monitor to "sleep". It has a webcam
>>>>> that's clearly labeled, and on a hinge so it can easily be aimed down
> at
>>>>> the floor if people are shy, and it has a Jabra USB speaker/microphone
>>>>> thing which should hopefully provide good speakerphone
> functionality. I
>>>>> have the computer setup to start firefox, and i have firefox set to
> open
>>>>> the jitsi page, where permissions are already enabled for
> webcam/audio.
>>>>> The only remaining need is to automatically wake the monitor from
> sleep
>>>>> (using "DISPLAY=:0 xset force dpms on") whenever there is anyone else
>>>>> detected in the jitsi "room"
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I wrote a short program that can trigger a command based on downstream
>>>> bandwidth usage:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/sudoroom/bw-trigger
>>>>
>>>
>>> So it turned out that the library I used doesn't really work for UDP :/
>>>
>>> The correct solution is definitely to have a client that joins with
> XMPP.
>>> Information is sparse but I found this code that I believe is for
>>> stress-testing that should be modifiable into what we need:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/jitsi/jxs
>>>
>>> Relevant code in:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/jitsi/jxs/blob/master/src/Participant.js
>>>
>>> --
>>> marc/juul
>>>
>>
>
https://sudoroom.org/december-2024-newsletter/
This is a condensed place to see what's going on at SudoRoom
would love it if people had short blurbs about their projects/. photographs
of them doing hackerish things around town! =D
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
https://sudoroom.org/events/
We have some events from other nearby nonprofits and cool organizations like the spire or critical mass on our website
The stuff is mostly hidden now unless you go to our calendar, but I was just thinking that it would be really cool to go to an outside event like the Spijer clothing swap and then come back to Sudoroom and work on what you exchanged at the clothing swap like repairing zippers and so during our hardware night or a women and non-binary night
This calendar isn’t meant to take people outside to Sudoroom and make them never come back but to inspire us because our location is the best thing about us
Also thinking long-term, that it would be cool to hang out of these other places and tell them about Sudoroom because a lot of people don’t know about us especially people are new to the area
We don’t market ourselves enough as one of the cheapest hardware open hack nights in the Bay Area.
We should also try to compete with the idea of just being totally socially, isolated and alone doing on your stuff in your garage or in your house we can see that remote meet ups. Don’t have quite the same spice as meeting in person and randomly walking into someone working on their hardware project
Hope this gets us more involved in our outside community. There’s so much good stuff going on in Oakland and the best thing about Sudoroom is that you can physically meet people in person and that you were actually in Oakland, which is one of the best cities in the United States right now.
Sent from my iPhone
https://sfba.social/@sudoroom
We are now on Mastadon as well as BlueSKy!
Thanks to openVibes and when folks have time we can double post to both
accounts!
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
https://sudoroom.org/new-meetup-series-papercrafting-programming-ai-whateve…
ANNOUNCING A NEW LEARNING HOW TO LEARN PAPER CRAFTING + ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMMING AND MATH WHATEVER ELSE SERIES RIGHT BEFORE OUR
HARDWARE HACK NIGHTS ON TUESDAYS!
We kept talking about this but we’re finally going to do it! Why not meet
up right before hardware hack night and do some hardcore whiteboarding and
paper crafting around ephemereal topics like artificial intelligence!
At the end hopefully we’ll have something cute to take home, or at least
post on the walls. The risks we take using razor blades and hazards of
paper cuts are outweighed by the reverse exercises we do to avoid carpal
tunnel syndrome and relaxation of gluing and folding to create something
tangible.
Come join us for early evening 7-8:30 pm papercrafting sessions on Tuesdays
– we’ll experiment and see how well this goes!
=============================
Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Hi I’m studying how to build my own LLM for fun. I’m thinking this would be a fun study group for either Monday (women and non binary night) or even hardware hack night as I’m interested in making paper models of the concepts (maybe with pictures of cats on them) to make these concepts stick !
Anyone else interested ? I’ll try to start a study group. Maybe we can meet right before hardware hack night and do pure whiteboarding no online classes or screens
Sent from my iPhone
New thrift store down the street that accepts donations, has great clothes
& gives free clothes to moms!
It's on Broadway and 15th street (almost a straight shot past the cute
triangle building park) from our garage.
They're accepting clean donations and have really nice clothes and even
furniture! Here are some photographs below. If you want to donate or buy
nice stuff check them out.
I also like how they have a donation program where moms can come and get
free stuff once a month.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/miromi/albums/72177720322167516/
@nextround_hub
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Tonight we'll be hosting Sudoroom for those who want to come hack on whatever,
in person, or through telepresence (see the last link in this email)
in the past few weeks, we've had about 10-20 people over the course of the
evening
Here it is on the sudoroom page:
https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/sudo-room-events/
I am usually there by 8PM but people do show up before me!
if you get to the door (at the corner of 48th and shattuck) and you can't get
in, call our telephone to get someone to let you in!
(442)252-8386 is our phone number, which spells "I HACK AT FUN"
We don't always hear the doorbell and I don't answer it anyway!
You should get on this sudoroom discuss mailing list! click here:
https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
and you should donate monthly to sudoroom, monthly, by signing up here:
https://sudoroom.org/humans
and if you want to make a one-time donation, you can go here:
https://sudoroom.org/donate
If you want to join by video link, we'll have a Jitsi screen up at the
following address:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
hopefully it's not in Dutch but if it is, you can figure it out.
see you soon!
-jake
I created a placeholder for future film projects at SudoRoom.
https://sudoroom.org/projects/film-projects-at-sudoroom/
They can include animation and filmmaking, as well as presentation but can
also involve hardware hacking on selfie sticks, DIY green screens, AI in
filmmaking and more!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
A friend of mine is trying to get rid of 6 old macs. Is this something
Sudo would be interested in?
They are 2011-2015 vintage.
Anca.
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Hey folks, happy holidays!
I'm trying to put together some samples of projects at SudoRoom.
https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Category:Projects
Do you have a short overview of your project? I know it's hard but I can
volunteer to "grill" you =D
- What is it?
- Why did you do it?
- How did SudoRoom help you do it?
Any photographs would be great?!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
I'm going through the junk under the stairs and there's a Nikon Kodak DCS
460 camera with no lens
https://www.digitalkameramuseum.de/en/cameras/item/kodak-dcs-460
And lots of other stuff!
Come get stuff or it's going to get e-wasted and recycled. Anyone want a
dresser?
Hi everyone
Please check out the meeting notes from last night
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2024-11-21
Some todos we have
*space todos*
- clear out all things stored under the staircase (the "computer"
library?). This is on request of the fire inspector. Given this is a lot of
stuff, I think we should do some e-wasting. CALLI is helping us, we just
need to put it in the trash room
- CCL gives a cut of profit from equipment sales to whoever does the
work to post items on craigslist. If anyone is interested in doing that
work in Sudo Room, speak up!
- We could cart some stuff over to the entrance hall and promote a
buy nothing day with the free store
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day. Free Store doesnt have
capacity to store a lot of electronics but no problem if we
bring whatever
isn't taken back into sudo room or ewaste
- talk to CC about doing sewing programming out of Sudo Room for the
rest of the year. If that's agreed to, then we need to make some space in
Sudo Room for this
- make a Sudo Room sign and lighting for our new entrance
*nonprofit forming todos*
- Finalize bylaws
- Find new insurance plans
- Hire someone to do admin work
*communications todo*
- (re)create a discord? Right now we have a channel on the Omni slack. I
see there's some open source discord alternatives but I haven't used any.
Paige
Hey sudo room members!!Just a reminder that the Nonprofit/technology
Software Development Summit is happening right now (Nov 20-22) here in
Oakland
! We're heading to happy hour now and will be in summit mode for the next
few days!
<https://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit24>If you haven't registered
yet:
- Sign up on the waitlist
- Let me know when you've done so
- I can help get you off the waitlist
- I have free discount codes for sudo folks if cost is a barrier
Best ways to reach me:
- Signal: ajay.61 (preferred)
- Email: here (will check less frequently)
Much love,
ajay
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From: Ajay Tallam <senorajay(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 17:01
Subject: Fwd: Dev Summit 2024!
To: Ajay Tallam <atallam(a)gmail.com>
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From: Allen Gunn <gunner(a)aspirationtech.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 14:18
Subject: Dev Summit 2024!
To: Ajay Tallam <senorajay(a)gmail.com>
Hello!
I hope this finds you in a good place in another challenging year.
And speaking of years, it's once again that time of this and every year:
Dev Summit is happening for the 21st time in November :)
We'll be hosting it in person in Oakland 20-22 November.
And I'm writing to see if you might be able to join us. If you are game,
we would love to see you there.
If you can make it, here is the friends-and-family registration:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/779040470017/?discount=aspirationfriendsfam24
Please let me know if you might be able to join.
Hope to see you in November!
thanks & peace,
gunner
PS Full information is here, including our COVID protocols, on which we
welcome feedback and questions:
https://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit24
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Hi folks, Last night myself and Avery deployed the tarp from last year over
the SW corner of Sudoroom. I also placed available buckets nearby on the big
table so they can be positioned to catch drips.
While they will catch a fair amount of water, inevitably some will puddle.
From my memory, the low spot is near the standing drill press. The chrome
wet-dry vac is nearby and sucks up the excess water very well. When full,
I've dumped it outside the side entrance.
If anyone can check on the drips this evening, that would be most helpful.
Also, the excess water will eventually need vacuuming up. I¹m not available
until after thanksgiving.
Regards, Kent
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From Reddit:
"Have you tried envision with the rift s yet?
It should still work with monado afaik.
https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/fossvr/envision/https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality_linux/s/5ic5NGIVi4
On Sun, Oct 27, 2024, 18:58 Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> there does seem to be linux support for it now!
>
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality_linux/comments/13xv4gl/how_to_use_t…
>
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 1:23 PM Thomas Lopes <tomrlopes(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah I was naive when I bought it. I thought that Linux support was just
>> around the corner and upgrading video card would also be easy. I didn't
>> know about the video card shortage at the time.
>> The valve index was and is much more expensive.
>>
>> I may have an Nvidia 980. I don't remember if I've ewasted it already.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 12:08 PM Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you Thomas for dropping this off last night! It looks like it
>>> needs a Windows 10 PC to use it, probably with a decent graphics card.
>>>
>>> Is anyone willing to set up such a computer for sudoroom so we can have
>>> this thing in the space for people to play with?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM Jake Watters <typeinthenumber(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'll play with it! Sounds cool!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 18:36 Thomas Lopes via sudo-discuss <
>>>> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift_S
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone make use of this? I have one in box I would like to
>>>>> donate. But I know you already have a lot of stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyways I'll bring it by tonight.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thomas
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org
>>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org
>>>>> More options at
>>>>> https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/
>>>>>
>>>>
As Sudo embarks on its journey for independence from Omni, one thing that
would be very helpful to do is to change the billing account for Sudo’s
Digital Ocean subscription.
Currently, as a result of something Yar did a year or so ago, Sudo Room’s
DigiOcean monthly payment is being paid out of Omni’s general checking
account. It should be paid out of the Sudo account.
For the past year or so, I have been transferring the $43.90 (on average)
from Sudo’s account to Omni’s account to reimburse Omni. However, it would
be simplest if this autopayment was made from Sudo’s account so that no one
has to transfer anything, because very soon I will not be around to do this.
Best,
SL
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From: Ben Rosenthal <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net>
Date: Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Subject: [sfchalkboard] Next Fix-it Fest is this Saturday, November
16, 1–3:30 pm in Berkeley
To: <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net>
Hi Friends -
Join us for the second BUSD Fix-it Fest! A Free Community Repair Event
Saturday, November 16, 1-3:30 pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School
1781 Rose Street, Berkeley, CA 94703
Learn to repair your broken items and help reduce waste in our community.
Register your item in advance (recommended), volunteer, or find more
info: https://bit.ly/fixitfests
We will provide a workspace, tools, and guidance from a volunteer
“Repair Coach” to help you disassemble, troubleshoot, and hopefully
fix your item.
Categories include: clothing, electronics, bicycles, small appliances,
toys & sporting goods, jewelry, ceramics & shoes!
Location & Accessibility: MLK Jr. Middle School, 1781 Rose Street,
Science Building (enter through west gate across from Edith St.).
Wheelchair accessible. Bike parking. Accessible by AC transit. Street
parking only.
COVID Policy: Masks are welcome. Rooms will be ventilated.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As part of the BUSD Fix-it Fest, (Berkeley Unified School District)
middle school students enrolled in MakerSpace classes will learn about
repair during a weeklong unit in the classroom.
This event (the second of three repair events being held during the
2024–2025 school year) will provide an opportunity for school &
community members to learn how to repair household items.
The third event will be held:
February 8, 2025, 1–3:30 pm, Longfellow Middle School
1701 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702
Organized by: BUSD Climate Literacy Initiative and BUSD Middle School
MakerSpace Programs
In collaboration with Transition Berkeley, Nimble Repair, & Culture of Repair
Hope you can come. Invite your friends, too.
- Ben
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bhangra-beats-night-market-inaugural-city-of-s…
Anyone going to Bhangra beats! It’s Friday free and San Francisco’s first official Diwali celebration
We’ve been trying to do more “field trips” outside of SudoRoom with the intention of continuing the inspiration at museums and events with creating nights during the week
Let’s get some ideas for holiday decorations at this dance party !
Sent from my iPhone
https://sudoroom.org/events/categories/others-events/bike-parties/
FYI I've added auxiliary bike party events (Fridays) to our SudoRoom
calendar.
If we want new members or people dropping by, it's a good idea to "market"
to these folks - we had a great time when they came in a while ago to hack
on their bikes all at once.
https://sudoroom.org/when-the-bike-party-came-to-sudoroom/
what's nice is that the themes change every month for each of these 3 bike
parties, and it's a new opportunity for people to be creative especially
with costumes.
It would also be a good idea to document "starter projects" (I never got
around to work on my own bike personally and might add to the wiki)
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
I'm looking for stuff to put on the sudoroom events pages and blog - has
anyone created new year's celebrations or costumes? Religious decorations?
Winter solstice pagan celebration LED costumes?
If you'd like to share your photos we would love it!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
https://sudoroom.org/events/black-friday-clothes-swap-the-spire/
Discussed this with Paige on Monday - November 29 (black Friday) the Spire
down the street is having a clothing swap.
This sounds like we could do some kind of measured donation on the same day
to the free store (we don't want them to be overwhelmed)
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
We have a lot of stuff? Should we create a lending library of stuff we
don't actually care if people return or not?
This would have less maintenance costs and effort than if we had a lending
library of stuff we really want back (and we'd have to manage late fees etc)
*a members-only "lending library" would help marketing our*
- This could serve as a* big marketing plug for SudoRoom -* Hey be a
member! You get access to our (wink wink) lending library where you can
borrow stuff on the honor system
- We could make a page where we give each item (like a cute glue gun)
pretty stickers and a name. "Borrow Homer the glue gun! She has created
universes you have never seen!" and have little animated cartoons
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Do you have any stories of project syou've worked on and how SudoRoom
helped you out?
- brainstorming a guide for total newcomers. It should have a flow chart
and make it really obvious how to plan your projects, how to ask for help
https://sudoroom.org/blog/
We are not "marketing" ourselves well enough for a big advantage that we
have - we are nerds who offer an affordable hackerspace with ties to the
community.
Also holidays are coming up and people will be working on lights
decorations for various religions, especially the christian and christian
orthodox ones! and new year is a biggie. Has anyone worked on xmas lights
before at the SudoRoom / new year's even decorations or costumes? that
would be nice to feature on our blog
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
I'm inviting y'all to StupidHacks (aka stupid hackathon 9) - attendance
wasn't enough to warrant using both NoiseBridge and Sudoroom so it'll be in
NoiseBridge only for this semester! Here's the blurb I sent attendees - our
slack is at
https://join.slack.com/t/stupidhacks8/shared_invite/zt-2tganat7o-1_n3tXhqs3…
Also if you know any affordable but good places to cater from (near bart)
with a budget of ~$150 please lmk ASAP!
<blurb>
Welcome to stupidhacks! Please join our stupid slack ASAP! Invites have
been sent to your email, but reply if one has not. *Updates will be given
regularly there - please turn on notifications*!
Check-in instructions for November 17th:
The event will be held *on Sunday November 17th, with me departing from UCB
~10AM *at Noisebridge in SF (272 Capp St).
1. To go to Noisebridge, take BART from downtown Berkeley to 16th st.
mission.
2. Turn right (towards 17th st) on Capp.
*Don't worry about getting lost - at the beginning of the event we will ask
early comers to meet at BART! Later attendees may accompany directors as
they shuttle catering back and forth.*
3. A link will be released for remote attendees! If you aren't feeling good
please only attend remotely! Trust me, the experience is just as good
online.
Sponsors (mostly parodies of actual startups that sponsor hackathons):
1. "AI" sponsor: Your project should include matrix multiplication or some
LinAlg-related joke in addition to wasting energy in general.
2. "Cryptocurrency" sponsor: Any overly convoluted data structures or
methods of storing data in general qualify. Wasting power by itself also
qualifies.
</blurb>
Best Regards,
--
Ethan Hu (he series)
ASUC Senator
412 Eshleman Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720
Associated Students of the University of California <http://www.asuc.org>
ethanhu(a)berkeley.edu
Dear sudoers,
I’m writing to let you know of a fellowship opportunity for community
organizations and researchers working with common technologies for
socio-environmental research.
The goal of the fellowship is to bring graduate students, post-doctoral
researchers, and members of community-based organizations with new
perspectives to socio-environmental research with open technologies.
**Application deadline is Dec. 15, 2024.**
The fellowship is designed to:
- Encourage translational and integrative work involving social +
environmental research with common technologies;
- Provide a space for fellows and network members to collaborate on
common research issues, challenges, and solutions.
Fellows may be:
- Graduate students conducting research with open technologies on
socio-environmental issues;
- Post-docs with existing community projects in Science and Technology
Studies, Open Science, and/or Socio-environmental research; and/or
- Community practitioners who are interested in integrating common
technologies into their environmental justice work.
The SEEKCommons project website contains all the necessary fellowship
information, including the application link:
https://seekcommons.org/fellowship-application.htmlhttps://seekcommons.org
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me.
I try to be present every Tuesday at Sudoroom!
Best wishes,
LF (on behalf of the org. team)
Hello! I recently discovered Sudo Room while searching for some support on
a project I'm working on, and just became a member. I'm excited this
community exists!
I'm creating an immersive art project for an event in New York in a couple
of weeks. The premise is that participants are traveling between dimensions
via an interdimensional travel agency but their mirror selves hijack the
service. I am hoping to create a few things, including a voice modulator
that I can mount inside a mask and a rumble pack kind of thing that can be
attached to the bottom of a chair. I'd like to sync the vibration in the
pack to an audio track, along with some lights.
I'm a graphic designer by trade with a pretty diverse skillset, but sadly
building something like this is not (yet) in my toolbox. I was planning on
coming to the event on Tuesday night and would be very very grateful if
anyone were willing to help me. In exchange I'd be happy to do a trade or
to pay or make you cookies or write you a poem or petsit or teach others
something if I can. I know lots of design tools, can paint, draw, and other
not so technical things!
Thanks for reading and hope to meet you soon.
Tara
Hi sudoers:
There’s a Toshiba 55l621U 55” 4K TV in sudoroom I’d like to put in
service as the new jitsi and discord telepresence monitor. But it’s
currently not working: it flashes on briefly and then goes out.
Normally this would indicate a power supply issue, but I’ve done a
little online research and some people online claim the problem might be
a firmware issue, e.g. see
https://forums.tomsguide.com/threads/toshiba-55l621u-wont-turn-on-properly.…
Can you do some more online sleuthing and see if you come up with a plan
of attack for fixing this TV? And let’s try to put our heads together
tonight at sudoroom and get this puppy working: I’ve already got a
rolling stand for it.
Sincerely, -Peter
We've been asked by the new building owners to start using the other doors
to enter the building!
I'm talking about the double doors on the north side, which open onto the
sidewalk of 48th street.
We need to fix the outdoor light above that entryway, and clean the area
maybe with a power washer, and make the whole doorway more inviting.
Volunteers?
There is a new web link to buzz those doors open, please email me if you
don't have that link yet!
-jake