Welcome to Sudo Room, a free hackerspace located at 4799 Shattuck in north Oakland, CA!
Our slogan is: HACK THE PLANET! Read more About Sudo Room's vision, values, mission, and code of conduct.
We use and share technology to promote 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!
Get involved!
- Email us at info [at] sudoroom [dot] org
- Stop by any event on our calendar
- Join our discussion email list
- Join our Discord server
- Follow us on Instagram: @sudo.room
- Check out some of the Cool Projects we are working on, or look at our available tools and work stations
- Become a member!
- Join a working group!
Regular Events
- 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. This is also Fixit Clinic night. and if you can't make it there physically, we have an ONLINE JITSI PORTAL |
| Meetups & Parties
(Wednesdays 7:00p) |
Some Wednesdays the Lefty Radio League meets here. And some other Wednesdays a CAD Learning group has been meeting at Sudo. |
| Darkmode
Monthly Event on Weekend Evenings |
Enter the world of audio visuals, light projections and TouchDesigner workshops. |
| Meetings
(Sundays 7:00p) |
Every other Sunday 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. |
Edit this list here: Recurring_Meetings
Work Stations
Check out the tools and Work Stations we have at Sudo Room and learn how to incorporate them into your next project
Active Projects
Get inspired! Here's what members are working on:
Current
- Working Groups Our big project of 2026 is to create working groups to make things run more creatively
- Fix-It Clinic for the right to repair, fixing all variety of old things and new things, and learning how things work!
- Chromebook Unlocking / Laptop De-branding putting new life into chromebooks soon to be EOL'd, and decorating/cleaning up our collection of Dell Latitudes
- 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.
- 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.
Older Projects
- SudoRoom History
- Computer keyboards campaign (April 2023, User:Invictvs) Donate keyboards to SudoRoom!
- 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!
- XR Augmented reality, WebXR and virtual reality (basically all XR) at SudoRoom.
- 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?
- Community Data Center Who needs corporate "hyper-scale" data centers, when you can have hyper-local? For us, by us!
- ArtificialIntelligence all the AI buzzwords in one bucket - no seriously, we have had some fun non cheesy projects around AI.
- AppropriateTechnology
- LearningToLearn - How to learn effectively in an increasingly distraction crowded world?
- Rust we have a Rust Salon going on!
- 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. - Shaders Shaders learning group
Edit this list here: Cool Projects