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Pawprint Prototyping
@pawprintprototyping.org
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We’re a 501(c)3 non-profit makerspace with a mission geared towards fostering the local hacker community and creative endeavors at large. A lot of us are also animals on the internet

📍Santa Clara, CA

https://pawprintprototyping.org/
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Next infra-interest meeting next Thurs 23 Oct 18:30 - 20:00 PDT. Agenda: wiki.pawprint.space/interest_gro...

This meeting will be covering some in-depth usage of running containers with Docker.

Come in-person, participate online over Google Meet, or watch the livestream. Links to come.
Xenia, the trans linux fox mascot, wearing large, round glasses, and with gay, trans pride pins and a digital pet clipped to her skirt, holds a tablet showing a neofetch terminal window and asks: "Did you know linux runs perfectly fine on an old surface tablet?".
October 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Tomorow: infra-interest - come learn Linux skills, how to host your own website and applications at home on commodity hardware.

Thu, September 11 · 18:30 – 20:00 PDT

- Caddy webserver for easy hosting out of your homelab @rechner.solutions
- Identity/SSO from @sergiozygmunt.com
Xenia, the trans, fox linux mascot, sits on the floor of a server room with her keyboard, looking fine as hell (and running Arch, btw)
September 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Tomorrow: join us for our inaugural `infra-interest` night for anyone interested in learning Linux, self-hosting websites and applications on their own home lab, various ramblings about clawing back technology from the cloud, and some opportunities to work on our rack.
August 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Monday, July 28 @ 19:00
545 Aldo Ave #24, Santa Clara, CA

Join us to learn about @grapheneos.org, a security hardened Android OS that runs on Google Pixel's line of smartphones and tablets. We'll show the benefits, caveats, and alternatives to reducing big tech's grip on your digital life.
Graphene OS: Open Source, Android Compatible, Private and Secure mobile operating system. Join us for an intro talk and user's group. July 28. 19:00
July 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Support Pawpint's mission of fostering the hacker community at large with this stylish and interactive memory game badge SAO!

paw.bs/sao
A tiny pawprint-shaped shitty add-on with buttons and an LED for each pawbean that plays a game that is definitely legally distinct from anything you've ever heard of.
July 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Halloween candy bowl got weird this year
photo of a bowl on our exhibit table at open sauce 2025. bowl has orange hand shaped PCBs inside. the sign on the bowl has a photo of the hand shaped PCBs and reads: “ Free! SiFive Prototypes! Should we have these? Who knows! TAKE EM. (just tell us what you’re gonna make with them)”
July 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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We’re setting up for @opensaucelive.bsky.social
SEE YOU TOMORROW
partially set up Pawprint Prototyping exhibit booth at Open Sauce 2025. there is a giant simon says paw game in the corner of our exhibit. on the tables there are various parts and bins our robot arm and a partially set up game score counter
July 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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We'll be at @opensaucelive.bsky.social this weekend!

Come shoot our robot.
Our robot arm contraption has a new target
July 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Join us TOMORROW from 11:00 - 15:00 and learn how to use KiCAD, open source software to design your own custom electronics. Learn KiCAD! Design for our Pick-n-Place! Order a PCB!
June 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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At Pawprint, we are terminally online. @bamboozlewzl.bsky.social
A user in a lab coat uses a VT100 to browse the web, the terminal displays the article for Pawprint Prototyping from the Noisebridge wiki. The video output from the terminal is also displayed on a modern LCD TV. VT100 displays "20th CENTURY TEXT" ASCII art
June 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Oh lawd we sewin'
May 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Ever wanted to ask the Government something and have them legally obligated to respond?

Join us this Friday night at 7pm

Learn how to make FOIA requests to the Local, State, and Federal Government! Act quickly, there is no guarantee we can do this forever...
A flier in the style of a photocopied over and over again page of an old government document. FOIA Party Night. Pawprint Prototyping. April 18th, 2025 19:00 hours. 545 Aldo Ave STE #24 Santa Clara, CA 95054. Come learn how to make FOIA Requests to the Government of the United States of America
April 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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WE’VE APPLIED TO OPEN SAUCE 2025 @opensaucelive.bsky.social

We’re ready for more fursuit photos with you @williamosman.bsky.social
open sauce 2025 crayon application. lots of drawings of our proposed exhibit for this year including stickers of some members fursonas. Open Sauce Exhibitor but my shitpost really big. drawings of our robot arm game, really cool member projects and dohickies and a curse image of retro computer ewaste. boykisser drawing for good luck
April 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Come help us celebrate our 5th year! We programmed the robot to help.

545 Aldo Ave, #24, Santa Clara, CA
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There will be so much cake, please we can't eat it all by ourselves.
April 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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🎉🥳🎉YOU’RE INVITED🎉🥳🎉

Celebrate our birthday this Friday at 6pm!!!
decorated white cake in a cake box with the words “Prototype: Do Not Touch!”
April 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Pawprint is getting ready for @opensaucelive.bsky.social - are you?

📹 @bamboozlewzl.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Join us Sunday @ 14:00 to learn surface mount soldering skills!

Classes open to the public.

Please Register (forms.gle/oBY3VxfiUdi1...) to claim your spot! A suggested donation of $20 helps fund classes like this for everyone, but no one is turned away for lack of funds (Pay-what-you-want)!
Learn SMD Soldering! 545 Aldo Ave #24 Santa Clara, CA 95054 March 23rd, 2PM
March 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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You gotta come to our public general meeting tomorrow Tues Feb 25 @ 19:00 in Santa Clara, CA
our pawprint prototyping logo printed on a piece of paper and taped to a corkboard but someone messed with it and crossed out PAW and wrote in sharpie above “FREAK”. They also replaced the normal pawprint with footprints. How crude of them. The corkboard also has a ukulele chord tab sheet, a 3D printed cartoon paint splatter, more pushpins and a photo of fursuiters.
February 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Did you enjoy the cubicles and associated art and tech projects at FC25 ? Come tonight to learn what’s going on at our hackerspace and celebrate a successful Further Confusion 2025 with us via champagne sabering

Public General Meeting
TONIGHT @ 7pm 🍾 ⚔️🥂

545 Aldo Ave #24, Santa Clara, CA
messy and empty themed cubicles around 2am at FC 2025 giant microsroft clippy come to life propped up in a corner at the convention looking disheveled the furcon further confusion inc logo displayed on an IBM XT on a desk in a cubicle at the con. the keyboard is on top because a local fox had just fixed it or set it up a phone belonging to Mr. Skunk on a very messy desk. if you managed to call yourself from this phone and record the number you could call Mr. Skunk back and pretend to be an employee or the boss. we have many voicemails to sort through. also pictured is part of the “hello my name is” sticker printer bot. there is also a broken keyboard to go with a hatsune miku fortinite desktop wallpaper on the monitor that is mostly out of frame
January 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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COME TO OUR PANEL 11AM HILTON SAN CARLOS

Learn about our projects we made for @furcon.bsky.social, about how you can get involved with a hackerspace near you, and hangout and talk shop about your own projects with other makers and hackers 🔨 ⚙️ ❤️ 🐾
Join Pawprint Prototyping's membership for a discussion of how cool it is to have a collaborative community working towards hacking things better! We'll present some projects we've built, meet other hackers, and generally hang out. Hosted by Rechner Fox
January 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The phones are fixed. The boss has been calling all day. Will you pick up? @furcon.bsky.social
office phone on a desk at in a cubicle at Further Confusion
January 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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FIXED. Thank you @graytfox.bsky.social
IBM XT is fixed and showing the Furcon logo again
January 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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XT will be fixed soon. A very skilled fox is on his way
IBM XT no longer displaying the Further Confusion logo Kilte holding the keyboard needed to fix the XT and walking towards the convention center on the sidewalk
January 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Come check out the cubicles at Further Confusion. We added more posters, an IBM XT and fixed the other interactive electronics.

Consider coming to our panel: Makerfurs Panel
Sunday 11am-12:30pm Hilton San Carlos
mr skunk cubicle with dot matrix telegram sticker printer, working phone, IBM XT, hello my name is sticker printer, fortnite miku monitor wallpaper, funny office posters and supplies mr fox cubicle. xerox printer and blueberry blue imac plushies on the table. a chair to sit at and use the mr fox phone. many office supplies and markers. funny posters and art are plastered on the walls funny office poster. ENERGY. get back to your station, no hibernation. an image of a fursuiter is lying on the couch with eyes covered funny office poster. SECURITY. Keep tailgaters out when you badge-r in! An image of a fursuiter badging into pawprint prototyping’s front door
January 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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badge printer underwent surgery and is now en route to FC
badge printer button box opened up and being fixed on a soldering bench at pawprint prototyping
January 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM