Hi folks, this went out to the 59 new people we have on our lu.ma/sudoroom mailing list. lu.ma/sudoroom I'm impressed at how many people signed up, and we've been cross-posting to arts-focused local mailing lists like Decentered instead of the usual tech meet and greets and discord channels. If you could direct people here for sign-ups instead of meetup.com, that'd be great. Our meetup account is closing down in a few weeks. I'd love to just have all the sign ups be on our wordpress, but the site keeps going down (working with jake on that), and I might make copies of this newsletter on hashnode (https://sudoroom.hashnode.dev) but here it is. We also have cofffee and whiteboarding Thursday mornings, which is getting a good response! So we can escpae our monday and tuesday exclusive sign ups. EVENTS THIS WEEK AT THE SPACE Sign up on our lu.ma/sudoroom site – we are leaving Meetup! 8/19… <https://lu.ma/sudoroom> <https://lu.ma/sudoroom> SudoRoom <https://lu.ma/sudoroom> SUDOROOM IS MADE OF PEOPLE (AUGUST 2024 NEWSLETTER) EVENTS <https://sudoroom.org/events/> THIS WEEK AT THE SPACE Sign up on our <https://lu.ma/sudoroom>lu.ma/sudoroom site – we are leaving Meetup! - 8/19 Monday – *OCTAVIA BUTLER & OPEN-SOURCE AI: RAG & VECTOR DB – WOMEN & NONBINARY HACK NIGH <https://lu.ma/m3qsibqb>*T <https://lu.ma/m3qsibqb> *we continue our open-source AI workshop focused on Octavia Butler* (see some of the prequels <https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/>) - 8/20 Tuesday – 2pm – 11pm – *Open Sewing & Making Lab <https://lu.ma/8nbgql52>* note that the hours are longer and extended! - 8/20 Tuesday 8pm-11:45pm – *The Wonder of Panoramas – Hardware Hack Night <https://lu.ma/z11o2ctd>* *we explore physical and virtual panoramas in virtual reality and on paper* - 8/22 Thursday Morning – 9:30am-10:15am – *Clique-y Algorithms <https://lu.ma/15elstji>* – Whiteboard & Coffee Series – *putting the soul back in soulless graph theory algorithms* - 8/23 Friday 4:30-5:00 pm – *Speculative Design: Urban Planning around SudoRoom & Temescal <https://lu.ma/ibcvuym0>*– *a short but sweet teaser online (remote) for an in-house UX session later this month* ------------------------------ MOTTO: APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY <https://sudoroom.org/appropriate-technology/> *Appropriate technology reminds us that before we choose our tools and techniques we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them unobtainable.* - Rainbow Magazine, 1977 - [image: Image] ------------------------------ HACKING A MIDI CONTROLLER <https://sudoroom.org/hacking-a-midi-controller-at-sudoroom-thank-you/> Shantea Controls hacked their midi controller to make rad music with help from Jake during hardware hack night! [image: Image] ------------------------------ OCTAVIA BUTLER THEME WITH OPEN SOURCE AI After being stuck doing dozens of joyless customer sentiment analysis and storefront chatbot examples, we decided to put the open-source and soul back into our Women & Non-Binary workshops with some *Octavia Butler <https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/>*themes <https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/>! Instead of mindlessly adding AI models, we also discussed the implications of open-source and transparency and read over some papers. Just about everyone was able to leave the evening with an open-source generative AI model and some code that ran whether they were on a Mac, windows or linux machine! [image: Image] *This upcoming Monday we continue for session two with RAG and vector databases <https://lu.ma/m3qsibqb>*! <https://lu.ma/m3qsibqb> ------------------------------ BUILDING A VIRTUAL REALITY SUDOROOM ON OPEN-SOURCE A-Frame Visit us in virtual reality on your headset at https://sudoroom.github.io/webXRSudoRoomHarwareHackNight/ – Chat with Romy if you want to contribute and learn A-Frame for open-source webXR <https://sudoroom.org/xr-virtual-reality-augmented-reality-webxr/> [image: Image] https://sudoroom.github.io/webXRSudoRoomHarwareHackNight/ ------------------------------ INTRODUCING SPECULATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOPS <https://sudoroom.org/events/speculative-design-in-urban-planning-mobile-phones-around-oakland-a-ux-teaser/>INVOLVING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD We’re starting with a short but sweet remote meetup next Friday <https://sudoroom.org/events/speculative-design-in-urban-planning-mobile-phones-around-oakland-a-ux-teaser/> with an introduction to *speculative design <https://sudoroom.org/events/speculative-design-in-urban-planning-mobile-phones-around-oakland-a-ux-teaser/>*. Eventually these will move to in-house workshops led by talented UX designers involving projects like “body-storming”, exploring the diverse immigrant neighborhood of Oakland, and imagining new technologies beyond our wildest dreams! [image: Image] Use AI to imagine walkable streets, electric scooters, and immigrant food stands to create a healthier, more locally focused, and just Oakland! ------------------------------ NEW POSTS THIS WEEK - *Note from our successful whiteboarding Session – Rust & Algebraic Datatypes* led by Jade from Noisebridge – https://sudoroom.org/algebraic-data-types-in-rust-whiteboard-style-kung-fu-… - *Slices of Life from our Hardware Hack Nigh*t – https://sudoroom.org/slices-of-life-from-hardware-hack-night/ - *Our first successful collaboration at the Museum with Noisebridge’s Aaron* – we even have a print handout from this collaboration on “Where is the Math in Art?” https://sudoroom.org/where-is-the-math-in-art-print-handout/ - We’re adding more fine arts into SudoRoom Tech and Analog hardware projects with links to art on display at the Berkeley and Oakland Museums – https://sudoroom.org/dioramas-at-sudoroom-hack-night-preparation-we-are-not… we are not coconuts and we are note a remote-first hackerspace! ------------------------------ ROBOTS CAME TO PLAY AT SUDOROOM Robots can be friends too! (from our last hardware hack night session <https://sudoroom.org/slices-of-life-from-hardware-hack-night/>) – The BEAM robot is up and running and you can see more robot projects as we update our Robot <https://sudoroom.org/robots/>project page. ------------------------------ PROJECT PAGES New project pages on various topics, please email us what you are working on! - Robots https://sudoroom.org/robots/ - Math & Art & Beyond https://sudoroom.org/math-art-beyond/ - XR https://sudoroom.org/xr-virtual-reality-augmented-reality-webxr/ Permanent Newsletter Link <https://sudoroom.org/sudoroom-is-made-of-people-august-2024-newsletter/> <https://lu.ma> <https://lu.ma/ios> <https://twitter.com/lumahq> <https://instagram.com/luma_hq> Host your event with Luma ↗ <https://lu.ma/create?ref=email>