Sudoroom

SudoMesh over Oakland

• We're Sudo Room, a free hackerspace located at 4799 Shattuck in north Oakland, CA!
  • Read more About Sudo Room
• We're into technology and where it intersects with social justice, sustainability, education and solidarity.
• We strive to be an open, transparent, horizontal and welcoming community where all are supported and free to learn, create, gather, collaborate, work, play and more! .
• We are exclusively volunteer-run and supported through donations!! Learn more about membership.
• Our slogan is: HACK THE PLANET!
• Check out some of the things we are working on!
• Come by for a meet up or workshop (details below), or just pop in at one of our weekly meetings! - every Wednesday at 8pm. Second Wednesdays are meeting-flavored parties for new member applications and discussion of sudo and omni proposals.
• Way more details on our Welcome page

Recurring Meetings

For the most recently-updated list of upcoming events, see: Sudo Room Calendar and Omni Commons Global Calendar

Women / NonBinary Coding nights Mondays (7pm-9pm or even later)	The Sudo Room, a ​​creative community and hackerspace at Omni Commons, invites all Women/NB people for “Coding Owls – A WNB Coding Night”: bring your computer and a coding project and have fun! We can help each other if you have coding related questions/bugs or just keep company while hacking! and if you can't make it there physically, we have an ONLINE JITSI PORTAL
HardwareHackNight Tuesdays (7pm-11pm or even later)	Come hack on hardware. build stuff! take apart small robotic animals, electronics & make things. There's also a Multimediaspace downstairs with a silkscreen lab, sewing machines and more so you can make totally non sexist swimwear for women and men! and if you can't make it there physically, we have an ONLINE JITSI PORTAL
Meetings & Parties (Wednesdays 7:00p)	Every Wednesday at 7PM are official meetings of organization, bureaucracy and fun. They are hybrid, remote option is here ONLINE JITSI PORTAL We keep our agenda on an etherpad and then archive the meeting minutes. We're a California non-profit. See our Articles of Association.
Javascript study group (Thursdays 7:00p)	Learn, chat and hack on node.js, frontend, or whatever! Oakland is javascript city.

(Edit this list at Recurring_Meetings)

Work Stations

Check out the tools and Work Stations we have at sudoroom and learn how to incorporate them into your next project

Active Projects

Get inspired! Here's what members are working on:

Current

• AppropriateTechnology
• LearningToLearn - How to learn effectively in an increasingly distraction crowded world?
• Rust we have a Rust Salon going on!
• Shaders Shaders learning group
• SudoMesh or the people's network the balcony above SudoRoom has been renovated and SudoMesh is active and going again! Or is it the people's network now?
• Fix-It Clinic for the right to repair, fixing all variety of old things and new things, and learning how things work!

• XR Augmented reality, WebXR and virtual reality (basically all XR) at SudoRoom.
• 3D Printing at SudoRoom (ongoing as of April 2022, multiple contributors)
  There are a set of maintained 3D printers that members use to create cool objects.
• Light Projector Art (April 2022, User:Romyilano)
  Projection Mapping uses everyday video projectors, but instead of projecting on a flat screen, light is mapped onto any surface, turning common objects of any 3D shape into interactive displays.

Older Projects

• SudoRoom History
• Chromebook Unlocking / Laptop De-branding putting new life into chromebooks soon to be EOL'd, and decorating/cleaning up our collection of Dell Latitudes
• Computer keyboards campaign (April 2023, User:Invictvs) Donate keyboards to SudoRoom!
• Working Groups Our big project of 2023 is to create working groups to make things run more creatively
• Hack-o-mat (ongoing as of January 2023) we're rebooting the sudoroom hack-o-mat, with this refresh adding more art and zines as well as fashion!
• Feminist Swimwear
• Learning Blender We'd like to learn blender in conjunction with the (now defunct) Blender nights at Noisebridge
• Juggling Club starting up a juggling club held at the Tuesday hardware hack nights!

• Hammond Organ (ongoing as of March 2022, User:kent, multiple contributors)
  First brought to Omni in 2015. Ongoing restoration of a Hammond organ and Leslie speaker.

Edit this list here: Cool Projects