Category Archives: San Francisco

San Francisco: Let’s Learn to Build Some Robots!

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Hone your skills at basic robot building. You’re invited to join Hackaday for a Beginner Robotics Workshop on Saturday, May 12.

For this workshop we’re pairing up with FIRST robotics mentors and students from the Bay Area. FIRST is an international high school robotics competition and you won’t believe what these teams can do. The workshop will start with an overview of the three major parts that go into a robot project: mechanical design, electronic design, and programming. From there, choose one of the three you want to focus on for the afternoon and let the hands-on fun begin as …read more

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Disrupting the Commons: Dockless Bikes and Scooters Create Layers of Community Instability

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San Francisco’s electric scooters are disruptive to the communities where they are abandoned and, because they are constantly moving, the issues of abandonment and refuse cycle through neighborhoods. Continue reading Disrupting the Commons: Dockless Bikes and Scooters Create Layers of Community Instability→

Vulnerability in San Francisco’s Public Safety Warning Sirens Fixed

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A patched vulnerability in San Francisco’s public safety warning siren system suggests other radio-based platforms could also be hacked. Continue reading Vulnerability in San Francisco’s Public Safety Warning Sirens Fixed→

Hackaday Unconference this Saturday (in Triplicate)

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This Saturday we’re hosting the Hackaday Unconference — three live events in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco that are going to jumpstart the idea engines and enthusiasm of everyone who attends. We can’t even tell you what the Unconference is about; it’s the people who participate that make the schedule and guide the discussion. Everyone there will be ready to give a talk of at least eight minutes on something that excites them right now. As the day goes on, ideas will feed off of each other and people will give talks and lead discussions they hadn’t even thought …read more

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San Francisco Tapped for Hackaday Unconference on March 18th

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We want you to make the next Hackaday live event great. This is an Unconference in San Francisco on Saturday, March 18th and it depends completely on you. Get signed up now!

You’re in Control of the Hackaday Unconference

An unconference is a live event where you decide the topic, guide the discussion, and generally make it an epic Saturday. We have a handful of speakers lined up to help get things started. But we also want you to be ready to give a talk. Everyone that shows up should be prepared to stand up and deliver eight minutes on …read more

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