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​​EVENTS THIS WEEK AT THE SPACE

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• ​​8/19 Monday – OCTAVIA BUTLER & OPEN-SOURCE AI: RAG & VECTOR DB – WOMEN & NONBINARY HACK NIGHT we continue our open-source AI workshop focused on Octavia Butler (see some of the prequels)

• ​​8/20 Tuesday – 2pm – 11pm – Open Sewing & Making Lab note that the hours are longer and extended!

• ​​8/20 Tuesday 8pm-11:45pm – The Wonder of Panoramas – Hardware Hack Night we explore physical and virtual panoramas in virtual reality and on paper

• ​​8/22 Thursday Morning – 9:30am-10:15am – Clique-y Algorithms – 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 – a short but sweet teaser online (remote) for an in-house UX session later this month

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​​MOTTO: 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

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​​HACKING A MIDI CONTROLLER

​​Shantea Controls hacked their midi controller to make rad music with help from Jake during hardware hack night!

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​​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 Butlerthemes!

​​ 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!

​​This upcoming Monday we continue for session two with RAG and vector databases!

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​​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

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​​https://sudoroom.github.io/webXRSudoRoomHarwareHackNight/

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​​INTRODUCING SPECULATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOPSINVOLVING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

​​We’re starting with a short but sweet remote meetup next Friday with an introduction to speculative design. 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!

​​Use AI to imagine walkable streets, electric scooters, and immigrant food stands to create a healthier, more locally focused, and just Oakland!

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​​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-at-our-women-and-non-binary-hack-night/

• ​​Slices of Life from our Hardware Hack Night – 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-coconuts/ we are not coconuts and we are note a remote-first hackerspace!

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​​ROBOTS CAME TO PLAY AT SUDOROOM

​​Robots can be friends too! (from our last hardware hack night session) – The BEAM robot is up and running and you can see more robot projects as we update our Robot project page.

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​​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/

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