Sandbox Hackerspace

This Thursday the 12th!

Digital Security Clinic is about protecting yourself from corporate and state surveillance online. All experience levels welcome! Please also come if you can teach others.

Come to Sandbox tonight Thursday 6-9PM for a hack nite! We will work on building out the digital infrastructure and data platforms that enables a mass response to immigration enforcement in Atlanta. Bring your skills, (especially data aggregation and reporting), experience, and a commitment to melting ICE. Tech background not required!

Repair cafe tomorrow, Friday, Jan 23 at Sandbox 3-8pm! Bring your stuff to fix!

This Thursday at 8PM, Sandbox is hosting another digital security clinic. Bring the digital security and privacy task you've been putting off and come work on it in a chill environment with like-minded people. Please also come if you can teach others and share your skills!
Thursday, January 22nd @ Sandbox - 483 Moreland Ave NE - https://sandboxatl.org

did u know the “cloud” is not actually a cloud but a data center?
did u know that neighborhoods surrounding data centers are largely low-income, minority neighborhoods?
did u know that these data centers consume so much energy that they can cause minor but frequent power outages to the surrounding neighborhoods?
have you ever heard of the concept of “digital hoarding”?

ponder this and other modern nightmares surrounded by a group of your closest strangers in a cool new hacker space so we can all do our best version of digital harm reduction- aka the sexiest sisyphean task of our times. the good news is that we can do it ~together~.

on fri, nov 14th come to Sandbox on the third floor of 483 moreland ave ne (same building as the liminal space collective) and stare at your phone and/or computer for 0-3 hours with a bunch of other people doing the same. you can complain the whole time if you want. you can ask other people what they do instead of using the same 3 passwords for everything. you can set up do not disturb profiles for every possible situation so that only the people who you want to reach you can. I will bring some snacks and you can too. you can also bring yr pets if they’re nice and well-behaved. oh and it’s free.

Come to Neuro Saloon at Sandbox, presented by our friends at Wavelet Labs.

A fun neuroscience discussion with a brief presentation. This month's topic is the Default Mode Network - a task-negative neural network associated with an open, wandering mind, a sense of self, and imagining the future. It is also the gateway to activate attentional and executive functioning networks.

You can preregister here: tinyurl.com/waveletseminar

EFGA Talk: Understanding the Georgia Public Service Commission
Oct 29, 2025 7:00 PM @ Sandbox

At a time when data centers are in the news, and models of cost sharing for their power requirements are up for debate, one state government agency holds a key position: The Georgia Public Service Commission. At the time of this presentation, an election will be under way to select two new members of the five-member commission. Understanding the background of this organization is key to making an informed decision.

https://www.meetup.com/electronic-frontiers-georgia-efga/events/311658615/

A bi-weekly meetup for anyone interested in running servers, self-hosting, or diy digital infrastructure. We meet up to share ideas, learn from each other, and hack on the Sandbox server infra.

Tuesday Oct 14 6pm

AUTONOMOUS DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE OFFICE HOURS
Are you a grassroots organizer? Do you need advice on running web and data services in a secure and private way?

Come get advice from digital infrastructure specialists with backgrounds in social movements!

Wednesday Oct 15th, 6:30-8:30pm
Sign up for a slot here: https://anon.to/4uTlyb

Keeping your data private and safe from surveillance doesn't have to be anxiety-inducing. We can learn together! Bring your phone or laptop to our digital security clinic. It's an inclusive, chill environment where you can get answers to your security questions and find peer tech support. Please also come if you can teach others and share your skills!

October 3rd 6pm @ Sandbox

Come to Sandbox tomorrow at 5:30pm to watch MediaJustice's presentation of their report "The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South"
Stay for a discussion about the impact of new data center construction in our region.

https://mediajustice.org/resource/the-people-say-no-report/

From a recent presentation at Sandbox by Dr. Sonali Gupta of Wavelet Labs about signal processing of neural electrical activity as applied in neurofeedback.

We are hosting a discussion on authoritarianism presented by fellow Electronic Frontiers Alliance member EFGA:

=Minimum Viable Authoritarianism=

Parts of the hacker community have always been concerned with techno dystopias and authoritarianism. Recent events have prompted many people to wonder if the United States is in the process of falling into such a state. To answer this question, we must have a clear understanding of what authoritarianism is.

Wednesday, September 10, 2025
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT

https://www.meetup.com/electronic-frontiers-georgia-efga/events/310717418/?isFirstPublish=true

Don't buy a new one, repair it <3

Come to repair day! If you got something broken, maybe someone can fix it!

We're talking sewing, soldering, 3d-printing, disassembling, re-formatting.

If you're good at fixing things, bring your tools and skills to share with others.

August 29th, 3-8pm at Sandbox

Keeping your data private and safe from surveillance doesn't have to be anxiety-inducing. We can learn together!

Bring your phone or laptop to our digital security clinic. It's an inclusive, chill environment where you can get answers to your security questions and find peer tech support. Please also come if you can teach others and share your skills!

Wednesday, Aug 6th 6pm @ Sandbox - 483 Moreland Ave NE - https://sandboxatl.org

Wish you could stop Google from tracking your every thought? Wondering what "end to end encryption" means? Been wanting to install Graphene OS on your phone? Stuck getting TAILS running on your macbook? Constantly panicking about the panopticon and don't even know where to start?

You should come to Sandbox's digital security clinic. It's an inclusive, chill environment where you can get answers to your security questions and find peer tech support.
Please also come if you can teach others and share your skills!

Wednesday, July 9th 6pm @ Sandbox - 483 Moreland Ave NE - https://sandboxatl.org

YOU SHOULD START A COMPUTER CLUB IN THE PLACE THAT YOU LIVE
https://startacomputer.club/

@skonair@mastodonsweden.se Those zines are all available online if you search. But it's a good idea to curate a collection of digital files - maybe we should do that!