Don't forget about the Omni Open House tomorrow! Come to Sudoroom and hang
out all day, to greet the new people who will come through and ask what we're
about!
We'll be playing with the synth the whole time I hope
-jake
Hello,
There will be a sudoroom meeting tonight. The meetings are currently
happening on a weekly basis because of the ongoing Omni crisis.
Topics we can discuss:
* There are discussions ongoing with CAST (https://cast-sf.org/), and
I can summarize the communications we've had with them.
* Omni recently admitted a new group as tenant (Deb Gives) who wants
to become a member.
* There are potential funding opportunities that we could apply for.
Call for sudo volunteers.
Alex (current delegate)
As you all know I've been super interested in light projection. I'm in the
works with folks to put a permanent light projector on the mezzanine so we
can have continual video projected of art, videos and event games that
people play during hardware hack night.
This is a form of augmented reality and I'm super interested in Museum
design -
https://exhibits.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Guide-to-Exhibit-Develop…
*Museum design* seems like the perfect format for SudoRoom. We have so many
interesting books, electronics, and vintage computers everywhere... I can't
recall a time when we set something up like a proper museum exhibit, so
that people who weren't part of the inner circle would have a clue about
what cool electronics history or experiment was before them!
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2019/03/01/how-museums-are-stepping-up-exhi…
I'd like to expand this eventually into both physical museum design
(placarsd, tables) but also virtual reality stuff. I'm pretty swamped right
now with work and personal projects but FYI this will be my north star for
the months to come.
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:09:10 -0800
From: Jose Oyola Cortes <joyola(a)ucdavis.edu>
To: info(a)sudoroom.org
Cc: Lee Martin <leemartin(a)ucdavis.edu>
Subject: [sudo-info] Join Our Research Project: Recruiting Facilitators for Embodied Virtual Reality Learning Experience
Greetings,
I hope this email finds you well. I am reaching out to you because of your
organization's expertise and experience in facilitating hands-on making and
tinkering experiences and your commitment to supporting underrepresented
and marginalized communities.
We are embarking on an exciting research project aimed at developing
embodied pedagogical agents capable of facilitating maker tasks in
three-dimensional virtual reality making spaces. Our goal is to create an
immersive learning experience for students who may not have access to
traditional educational resources.
To achieve this goal, we are assembling a team of expert facilitators and
youth participants to interact together in an embodied virtual reality (VR)
platform that our team is building. This platform, equipped with VR
headsets and motion capture technology, will record verbal and motion data
of facilitators and young people as they work simulated electronic assembly
tasks. We will recruit our youth participants (13- and 14-year-olds) from
historically under-represented and marginalized racial, ethnic, and
socio-economic groups in the greater Sacramento area.
Facilitator participation will involve 1 or 2 in-person visits to UC Davis,
where you will don a motion capture suit and VR goggles, and then lead
about five one-on-one sessions with a 13- or 14-year-old learner. Each
session will last 15-20 minutes, and you would complete about five sessions
in one visit day. We would also ask you to be available for one additional
interview (via zoom) to collect feedback on your experience and our
developing framework. Your expertise will be invaluable in helping us
collect a rich and diverse dataset that will drive our research forward.
The data we collect will be used to (a) understand how experienced
facilitators guide learners through making experiences, which will aid us
and others to better educators to facilitate maker experiences, and (b)
help build a prototype virtual facilitator which will be controlled in
"Wizard of Oz" fashion by a human facilitator “behind the curtain.”
By participating in our project, you will have the opportunity to
contribute to cutting-edge research -- your insights and expertise will be
instrumental in shaping the future of this exciting set of technologies and
pedagogies.
We are looking for participants for dates between March 11 and April 30 of
this year. If you or anybody in your organization is interested in being
part of this research project, please reply to this email with your
availability for a brief introductory call. We would love to discuss the
project in more detail and answer any questions you may have.
Thank you for considering this opportunity to join our team. We look
forward to potentially working together to advance the field of virtual
reality-based education.
Warm regards,
José E. Oyola Cortés
PhD Student & Graduate Student Researcher
School of Education
University of California, Davis
joyola(a)ucdavis.edu
Dr. Lee Martin
Professor
School of Education
University of California, Davis
leemartin(a)ucdavis.edu
Proposal: At this Tuesday's Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night: can we put
some energy into improving the front door bell / buzzer / video system
so we can make Omni Commons more welcoming? A first step: move the
existing bell further back in the lobby so it can sound louder in
Sudoroom and in the media lab? -Peter
Hi Sudoers:
Sudoer Thomas Lopes hosts the Berkeley Linux Users Group Raspberry Pi
interest group (Pi.BerkeleyLUG) this Sunday (tomorrow) at Sudoroom:
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At SudoRoom from 11am till about 2pm this Sunday. Call or txt me for
building access if you need. 510. 984. 2455.
I've got a new high resolution camera module that old like to try. 54MP.
(Can't find 4k at decent price)
And a pcie multiplier which I'd like to try on the Pi 5 to see if I can
get fast Ethernet and storage at the same time.
Other project will be fixing a Lenovo laptop. This has the WiFi removed
and if you plug in a non Lenovo card it will refuse to boot. There is a
WiFi whitelist in the BIOS. So I would dump the BIOS and parse it out
with UEFI tools in Linux and apply a patch then write it back.
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Come out tomorrow and support Thomas!
Cheers, -Peter
Hello Sudo,
I am teaching an 8 sewing cohort and would love to do a laser cutting demo
March 13th 7pm - 7:30pm, It's on a Wednesday and I was wondering if this is
possible?
Sudoroom meeting tonight at 7PM, we're having weekly meetings since a lot of
fundamental issues to Omni and Sudoroom are being discussed every week.
We have to talk about these issues so that we can be represented at the
Delegates meetings that happen every thursday. Show up!
Please show up, there will be important discussions which will have an effect
on Sudoroom's survival as well as what Sudoroom stands for going forward.
Most of us meet in person, some join the meeting remotely through our Jitsi
video link at this address:
https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
-jake
Hey folks I'm taking a break from the digital world and I'm going to be at
Palisades Snowboarding.
Are there any nerds here? would enjoy a quick meetup on the slopes!
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com