We meet informally to share information about robotics technologies, projects, resources, and opportunities. Please join us!

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 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 …

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

NYC Driverless Auto is a group dedicated to driverless cars. We believe in a world with safer, greener, faster and more efficient automobiles. We're a casual group that will get together for coffee, drinks and the latest tech!

Do you love DIY? Do you want a space to create, collaborate, teach, and learn? This group is for anyone interested in starting a makerspace in the Pioneer Valley. We are trying to get a group of like-minded makers together to develop this further. We meet biweekly.

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.

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 …

Everybody grabs some food (you have to pay for your own, sorry), grabs a seat, and talks tech. There's no particular focus other than meeting some new people and having some interesting conversations. Come join us!

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.

To make a Hartford MakerSpace ( http://makerfaire.com/ or http://makezine.com/ )  a HackerSpace ( http://hackerspaces.org ). Also - ArtSpace , CraftSpace, CodeSpace, some Co-WorkingSpace and some perhaps - StartupSpace. A workshop, meeting place, shared space to make, to learn, and to Co-Operate. Lets get out of our garages, studios, meetups at bars, and temporary spaces. A permanent place to share a drill press ( instead of each of us having separate tools and space) and much more. We want to f …

IXR is a new makerspace at the Jersey Shore, located at the InfoAge Science and History Learning Center in Wall, NJ (at the former Camp Evans).  We are an open collective of geeks, artists, and techie-creative-types who come together to share tools, resources, knowledge, and ideas. IXR’s mission is to help lower the barriers to invention, creativity, and innovation - by providing access to resources, equipment, and community - that an individual maker may not have otherwise. We embrace the shari …

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, …

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 …

[This is a draft description; Don't join yet!] Some people feel a calling towards meditation, prayer, magic, shamanism, and so forth. But lots of these people navigate scientifically, too, reading popular science books or books by the "new atheists" and so forth. And, what about evolutionary psychology? Is a yearning for profundity and transcendence (and intimacy and warmth) -- are these urges the nihilistic result of natural selection? Well, kind of, maybe, in some sense. But, so what? I value …

A group for people interested in Futurism, Transhumanism, Biohacking, Postgenderism, Radical Life-extension, Technogaianism, the Singularity , Artificial Intelligence and related topics to meet and discuss ideas.

The Association for Women in Computing is a non-profit professional organization for women and men who have an interest in information and technology. The Association is dedicated to the advancement of women in the technology fields.

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 unite a strong community of doers eager to conceive of, design, make, test and clearly document open source hardware for the world-wide Maker Community. The group will share idea's, information, expertise and resources while developing open hardware in order to bring personal manufacturing to the masses or just for your own personal use. Whether you're an engineer, designer, tinkerer, inventor, programmer or someone interested in making the DIY world a better plac …

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 …