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The global community for hands‑on AI builders.

Curated meetups, hackathons, dinners, and demos for people shipping with foundation models. Bring working code, share what broke, and leave with patterns you can ship.

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No slides. Demo the thing.

We focus on demos, code, and technical insight. No sales pitches, no generic AI panels. Working systems set the agenda.

Innovate. Share what broke.

Bring side projects, unfinished systems, architecture notes, trade-offs, and failure modes. The room is built for candid technical work.

Local rooms. Global signal.

Each city protects the room locally while contributing to a shared global standard for serious AI builders.

Standard

Working code beats hype.

Demos, traces, systems, and scars carry more weight than predictions.

Belief

Practitioners, not spectators.

The future of AI is built by people close enough to the work to show it.

Room Rule

Demos over decks.

If it matters, bring the thing and show how it behaves.

Like the Homebrew Computer Club, AI Tinkerers is built around small rooms where practitioners compare notes before the path is obvious.

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Recent Talks & Demos

Ashwin T
Obsidian Wiki Ingestion LLM Pipeline
Jun 19
Automated pipeline ingests messy text into a semantic Obsidian knowledge graph using a local LLM for classification and autonomous link scraping, bypassing social media auth-walls.
Ashwin T Abu Dhabi
Antoine Gargot
Claude Code: AI 3D Capture
Jun 18
Automated 3D capture from games via an invisible plugin, built and deployed live using AI-powered skill chaining for unprecedented development speed.
Antoine Gargot Los Angeles
Mike Torriero
Multi-Model Witness over MCP
Jun 18
Verifying AI work by sending proofs to Claude, GPT, and Gemini simultaneously, then sealing agreement into an append-only ledger.
Mike Torriero Austin
Stefania Druga
Fugu: Physical Multi-Agent AI
Jun 18
Fugu AI orchestrates Reachy Mini robot actions and AxiDraw pen-plotter output, visualizing complex multi-agent workflows on paper.
Stefania Druga Tokyo
Fugu Reachy Mini
Ricardo Alanis
ScrubData: Local Data Cleaning Plan
Jun 17
ScrubData uses a small model to generate verifiable cleaning plans for messy data, ensuring reversible edits and masking sensitive information on-device.
Ricardo Alanis Monterrey
Etienne Caron
WebRTC Powered Agents
Jun 17
Live video agents powered by WebRTC, integrating LLMs and ML models for real-time object detection, segmentation, and conversational interaction with video content.
Etienne Caron Montreal
LiveKit WebRTC Gemini Live models
Jeff Rhatigan
petri: LLM-driven artificial life
Jun 17
An AI built its own AI evolution simulator. Watch a genetic swarm evolve in real-time, with an LLM inventing new tools and mutation strategies.
Jeff Rhatigan Manchester NH
Dhvanil Patel
AI Voice Tutor for iOS
Jun 17
An AI language tutor for iOS that generates unique illustrated cards and offers realtime voice practice in dynamic scenarios, learning from your mistakes.
Dhvanil Patel Berlin
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Thank you for organizing the event. It is a wonderful space to meet others that are also passionate about building things.

It was my first event. The community was welcoming and great! Appreciated the demos and examples with practical applications.

This was my first time attending the event, and getting to present was so much fun! Looking forward to attending more!

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