Colossus in 2012! Discuss, Learn, Implement, our Silicon Overlords!

Are you interested/excited/worried about the 'Singularity' as authors like Ray Kurzweil coined the time of ever increasing speed of technological innovation? Join this group if you would like to find others interested in this subject to exchange thoughts, ideas, book tips, laughter and generally good company.

Welcome to the The Bike and Social Club (Worcester, Marlborough, West Boylston, Shrewsbury & surrounding areas)! Meet other local cyclists while building a good group of friends to socialize with at and away from the trails. We want to have fun and enjoy our passion for cycling and making new friends. Not all is riding here!, some times we put together social meetings @ local restaurants, bars, lounges,etc. another way to meet riders in a non competitive environment. Lets have FUN! In order to …

The purpose of this group is to provide a forum for those gay guys (aged 30 or older) who are hardcore and even mild fans of geeky interests.  As somewhat of a fan of many things geeky, I want this group to provide me (and those like me) with opportunities to learn more about any and all things related to"Geek Culture" (including but not limited to comics(Marvel, DC, Independents, graphic novels, sci-fi/fantasy books and movies, animation, puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, scale model (cars, trains, and …

CT Hackerspace 30 Echo Lake Road Watertown, CT CT Hackerspace is the name of a group located in the US State of Connecticut . Our Mission is to provide a physical location where community members interested in technology can gather to collaborate on projects both physical and conceptual. To provide infrastructure to the community in the form of education, tools and equipment that will allow members to transcend from being interested in technology to implementing technology in actual physical man …

This is an interest group about robots. This includes toys, gadgets, robotics and tools. We also assemble and share stories, projects, accessories and other activities to help promote our fascination. You should join if you are just interested in robots even if you don't actually own one yet. But if you own a robot from a Sony Aibo to a Roomba--come and enjoy the camaraderie of others.

Join the local New York City forum for the Volumetric Society ( http://volumetric.org ) an eclectic group of innovators exploring the arts & sciences of a new world of natural user interfaces between body, brain, and spatially aware computing for the physical world.  Come exchange ideas, demo your projects, or just get exposed to the volumetric future that devices such as Kinect, Emotiv/MindWare, volumetric 3D displays and cameras and telematic interfaces are taking us. Everyone is welcome - fro …

First off, we have an official website! -> http://squidwrench.org/ Squidwrench's mission is to promote the interaction of creative and technical people in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Squidwrench is a home-grown community of creative people. Our modes of creation encompass painting, composing and performing music, building high-tech toys, building low-tech toys, and probably a lot of other stuff, too. There is no limit to the problems people can solve, given the resources, the inclination, the assista …

Hudson County's one-and-only Hackerspace, the place to collaborate on high-tech projects, learn awesome skills, and meet fellow tinkerers. Check us out at 38 Jackson St. in Hoboken or online at MakerBar.com. Tweets: @MakerBar IRC: #makerbar on irc.freenode.net mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/MakerBar RSVP's are requested but not required for most of our events. For anything with an attendance limit, we must ask for some form of RSVP. Please email bert@makerbar.com if you'd prefer to …

If parents want to counter the onslaught of TV programs and video- and computer games aimed at their kids they better bring on a good show! Legos and block building offer amazing educational opportunities for toddlers, kids, and adolescents. The Legosmeister NYC Meetup connects educators, parents, and kids interested in using Legos for imaginative play, educational purposes, and pure fun through workshops, playdates, and parties: Lego Duplos + Block Building: 2 yrs - 6 yrs;  Legos Regular: 5 yrs …

This group is for everyone interested in building flying robots (a/k/a UAV, UAS, or Drone). We have a bias towards using open source platforms such as Ardupilot, Paparrazzi, Gluon, etc, but all are welcome.

These are not your typical software engineering events. Our events cover topics related to software engineering along with business but aim to change the perspective of those who attend.  Our focus is on emerging technologies such as Big Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, 3D printing, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Semantic Web technologies, alongside more traditional topics like Ruby on Rails, HTML5, PHP, node.js, and Python. We reach out to the entire New York metropolitan …

A gathering of all those interested in the discussion and study of signs, meaning systems, web science, thinking, language, and knowledge in digital and web spaces. Open to all disciplines: All interested individuals are welcome, including academics, philosophers, advertising professionals, communications professionals, independent researchers, computer scientists, digital anthropologists, linguists, designers, information architects, user experience, human interaction, developers, localization, …

The most active robotics group in NYC. Discuss, collaborate, and build all sorts of robots with other enthusiasts.

NYC has countless tech meet-ups and events, but where's all the hardware love? We want to bring together a strong community of folks eager to build businesses with physical products, be it a cold fusion engine or a bionic fork. Whether you're an engineer, designer, CEO, investor, or anyone interested in being a part of the hardware start-up eco-system, come join us and let's create an amazing addition to the tech scene in the Big Apple.

Working group for ROS developers and operators of TurtleBot mobile robots in New York City. Come out to Brooklyn and share your experiences with other roboticists.

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011. All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by po …

If you want to make things, and make them with others, and are local to the South Coast of Massachusetts, look no further! We are a MakerSpace getting started on the South Coast of Massachusetts. We're still very much in the process of building our organization and are looking for new members. We're organized as an educational non-profit. Please stop by one of our meetings and check us out. For more information, visit our official web site at http://scilspace.com or our wiki at http://wiki.sci …

Events will focus on Ruby on Rails engineering best practices and principles along with emerging Rails technologies. We will focus events on mixing Rails with new and emerging technologies as much as possible.  Examples of this will range from using Rails with Big Data and high frequency trading to using rails to develop apps for robots, and new medical devices. We will only allow the best RoR speakers to present, ensuring the quality of the content. Content will range from beginner to advanced …

Tech Tuesday is the weekly open night at Hack Manhattan, a community hackerspace in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan. Stop by to chat about your projects and use our electronics tools, 3D printers, sewing machines or machine shop. Hack Manhattan is located on 137 West 14th Street between Union Square and Chelsea. We are dedicated to technology, art and craft. Our physical space is open every Tuesday evening. A smaller 3D printing foucsed group gathers on Thursday evenings, and it’s pos …

This is a group for anyone interested in research concerning artificial neural networks, deep learning, and so on. The format varies between discussion groups, guest speakers, and tutorials. Proposed topics include: training deep belief networks with unsupervised pre-training/supervised finetuning, recurrent neural networks, different optimization methods, scalable architectures for large networks across clusters, practical GPU programming (with Python!), NNs for NLP, using NNs in robotics, visu …

High Tech meetup is for Entrepreneurs and inventors who are working on cutting edge technology. This is not a meetup for just web or another exercise app. It is geared at high tech startups involved in non standard and potentially revolutionary ideas and products. Granted, everyone thinks what they make falls into that category.As an example this meetup is for people involved in material modeling, robotics, machine learning, mobile apps that are deeper than a server+table/map UI. You got the pic …

Are you fascinated in such pursuits as model rockets and other remote controlled flying objects, aerial photography, weather ballooning, robotics, 3D Printing, prototyping, electronics, design and engineering? Let's meet up at least once a month to build some cool toys and experiments, and launch/fly them together.

Are you interested in helping us build a community of "Makers", tech-oriented innovators (programmers, hackers, robotics) etc. for students & adults in the Larchmont - Mamaroneck community? We have a Young Makers program operating privately but perhaps working together we could find some local building or space for dedicated sessions, informal learning & exploration.

The group is for people with multiple interests in areas like robotics, gadgets controlled by mobile devices, building models in science and technology, creating videos, etc. with a strong sense of art and design.

Long Island has a rich history with hardware - From Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi's work with radio to Grumman engineers building the Apollo Lunar Module. Let's rekindle that Maker spirit with the Long Island Lean Hardware Meetup. We want to bring together a strong community of diverse people - engineers, designers, tinkerers and inventors - all looking to build businesses with physical products. If you're interested in becoming a part of the lean hardware ecosystem, come join us and let's …

fat cat fab lab is a new undertaking of the fat cat club, music, and gaming venue on 75 Christopher street. We are expanding to include a small Maker facility that will provide access to digital fabrication equipment and related hacker, maker, crafter, and hardware enthusiast tools and workshops.

This group is for people who are interested in Engineering, Computer Science and Electronics.