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by Jake

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

2 years, 4 months

Weekly meeting

by Alexander Papazoglou

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)

2 years, 4 months

Museum design / light projection design at our beloved Sudoroom

by Romy Ilano

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. ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years, 4 months

Join Our Research Project: Recruiting Facilitators for Embodied Virtual Reality Learning Experience

by Jake

---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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

2 years, 4 months

Proposal: A better Omni Commons front door bell / buzzer

by Peter Mui

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

2 years, 4 months

Pi.BerkeleyLUG: Meeting tomorrow at Sudoroom (18.02.2024)

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: Sudoer Thomas Lopes hosts the Berkeley Linux Users Group Raspberry Pi interest group (Pi.BerkeleyLUG) this Sunday (tomorrow) at Sudoroom: === 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. === Come out tomorrow and support Thomas! Cheers, -Peter

2 years, 4 months

Laser Cutter

by Z Silver Zahn

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?

2 years, 4 months

weekly sudoroom meeting tonight at 7PM

by Jake

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

2 years, 4 months

Drawn at SudoRoom last night

by Romy Ilano

romy ilano shared a photo with you from the Flickr app! Check it out: https://flic.kr/p/2py1yHH Sent from my iPhone

2 years, 4 months

February 18th - Palisades snowboard crew

by Romy Ilano

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! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

2 years, 4 months

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