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Plants are good and electricity is fun. See what happens when we pair those together: join us for the "electric garden" workshop on Sunday 1st of March
Inspired by Sunjoo Lee's Electric Garden, this community workshop will build a collection of "mud cells" to generate power. "Using microbial fuel cells, which generate power through the metabolic processes of soil bacteria, the garden becomes an ecosystem where microbes, plants, insects, and minerals coexist while emitting small currents of electricity." Each plant pot works as a "mud cell" that can fuel a low-power device which we will decide collectively during the day. All materials are provided and participants can join for free. The activity will take place at SET Social's garden from 1 pm to 3 pm on 01/03/26. :)
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Cancelled permacomputing session: 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th of May 2026
SET Social is temporarily closing the venue due to unexpected administrative delays during May so our Monday Club meetings on the 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th will be cancelled. We will be back to regular scheduling in June!
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Date: Friday November 06th, 2026
Suggestions for the new PC schedule!
Hello! We (Izzy / May) have been doing a little bit of knocking heads together recently about how the Monday sessions are running.
We've been thinking about how we can make the group more resilient (esp considering the situation with SET), how we can keep it welcoming to new people and people who aren't deeply familiar with tech, and how we can emphasise the Permacomputing aspects of PC Club.
We'll be running a little session on Monday (the 9th) about it, and want anyone who's interested to put their ideas in! Our initial suggestions are:-
Schedule
- Week 1 - Small breakout groups based on things people want to talk about (like we've done before).
- Week 2 - Show and tell of projects/things people are working on (similar to the tech crits), all together or in groups.
- Week 3 - Group discussion on an existing technology, how much it follows permacomputing principles, and how it could be done differently (e.g. ffmpeg, the web, CDNs, LoRa, instagram).
- Week 4 - Workshop if someone wants to run one, otherwise breakout groups. Workshops should ideally be about different, practical, technological (or not!) ways of solving a problem (Eg listening to music, keeping in touch with people, organising a community), rather than about how to use a single technology.
Facilitators
Like some other groups do, we think it'd be useful to have a couple of rotating roles to keep things running smoothly. People would volunteer at the start of each meeting to do the role the next week. These could be:-
- Someone to introduce the club and what we're about at the start, set out the plan for the session, and make sure any club announcements happen.
- Someone to welcome any new people, ask them about what brings them to permacomputing, and what they're interested in.
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Cancelled permacomputing sessions: 14th, 21st and 28th of December
SET Social will be closed on the 14th of December for a Christmas event for the SET staff team and the Christmas closure period starts from the 21st of December and will be back open on the 4th of January. Check our calendar to keep track: Permacomputing Calendar
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Cancelled permacomputing sessions: 22nd of December 2025, 29th of December 2025, 5th and 12th of January 2026
SET Social will be closing for the Christmas period on 21st of December 2025 until 14th of January 2026 to carry out some maintenance and repairs and will reopen as usual on 15th of January.