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

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 …

COLLISIONcollective (aka Cc) was founded in 2002 as an offshoot of the MIT student art group, ATat (Arts and Technology at tech), whose charter was to host events showcasing art incorporating technology. Formed by artists and technologists, the COLLISIONcollective is premised on the sometimes abrupt intersection between art and technology. Its practitioners are drawn to this synthesis as the epicenter of forward-looking cultural adaptation. COLLISIONcollective was formed to address several vital …

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.

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 will try to book a spot to meet biweekly in South Hadley....it seems like a good central spot in the Pioneer Valley.

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 …

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 …

Our monthly events are not your typical software engineering events and will cover a wide range of software programming related topics, techniques, frameworks, and technologies from local companies and educational institutions.  Events will either consist of speakers, panels, or training sessions.  The focus is placed on emerging technologies alongside current technologies and techniques. We will provide information on application development, software engineering, HTML5, Hadoop, Python, Eclipse …

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 …

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 …

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.

Calling all embedded systems engineers! Are you wanting to meet your colleagues, learn from one another, and broaden the range of your network? Then this group is for you! The purpose of this group will be to have monthly meetings with one or two formal presentations, plus time for socialization. We are here to share experiences and ideas as colleagues, in contrast to a vendor/client relationship. Whether you are designing robots, digital fitness gadgets or automotive controls, or just about any …

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 …

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 …

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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 …

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 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 …

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