September 2024 Newsletter (Continuously Updated this Month)

We are here!

“If you want to change the future, start living as if you’re already there.” – Lynn Conway . We’re grateful to still be here, going, and will be here for a long time to come. More details coming soon…

Events this week

we look at transportation during our coffee & algorithm session this thursday

Sign up on our lu.ma/sudoroom site – we are leaving Meetup.com!


You can’t Unsee it! at the SF Moma

During our “Where is the Math and Science in Art?” museum walk someone pointed out that the Calder mobile is on the cover of MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms! Once you see it you can’t unsee it! This event has been so successful that we are planning a third round at the Oakland Museum on October 6, Sunday afternoon.


Fixit Clinic Featured on KQED


Can you tell us about any Open-Source Embroidery Software you know?

We were shocked to discover that it’s “normal” for people to pay $100 a month for proprietary embroidery machine software. Send us any information you know, so far we have heart that InkStich is good!


Invisible Technologies

“The best technologies are often the invisible ones-where people have figured out how to avoid problems rather than to solve them.

Nigerian medical devices made locally at lower cost

“Often all that is required is a perceptual change such as seeing grasshoppers as an airborne mobile protein harvesting and conversion unit-a food source-rather than a destructive pest. Or living near where we work rather than building better transportation technologies. Or eating lower on the food chain so you don’t have to pay for or grow food for the conversion losses of meat animals. Or planting trees rather than air conditioners. The second-best technologies are also invisible. They’re based on people’s skills and relationships rather than machines…”


Coffee & Algorithms Thursday Morning

Our space is now alive Thursday mornings! Join us for coffee and whiteboarding, and doing our part to make algorithms less of a. dehumanizing, corporate hazing ritual and more a beautiful way of understanding the world around us. They can even be art!



Past events

  • 9/2 (Monday) 7-9pm – Women & Non-Binary Hack Night: Peacekeeping AI and hardware hacking (Lu.ma)
  • 9/3 (Tuesday) 2-11:59pm – OPEN SEWING & MAKING MEDIA LAB https://lu.ma/6kan6mur
  • 9/4 (Tuesday) 8pm – ??? – Hardware Hack Night: Museumshttps://lu.ma/6huka65l
  • 9/5 (Thursday) 8am-11am – Coffee & Algorithms: Graph Networks & Plagues! https://lu.ma/puq3mfs7
  • 9/5 (Thursday) 6pm-??? – Where is the Math & Science in Art? Museum Visithttps://lu.ma/z1vzzm2t
  • 9/6 (Friday) 10:15-10:35 am.- CODE EXPLORE: EXPLORE THE OPEN-SOURCE SIGNAL WEB APP (REMOTE)https://lu.ma/nf79kbud