Electronics Projects Toronto

Bee-ing a Pollinator Protector: Plan Now for a Buzzing Spring Garden

Saving the bees is an environmental cause that resonates deeply with Canadians. While most of us might not be thinking about bees this time of year, our actions during the colder months can still support these pollinators, particularly native bees, which are crucial and threatened by climate change, habitat loss, and other pressures. In honour of the late bee scientist Sheila Colla, this presentation will offer practical tips on planting and maintaining gardens that provide beautifully blooming habitat for pollinators, with a particular focus on how native plants support wild bees. Presented by **Lorraine Johnson**, who co-authored [A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee](https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?_gl=1*f3a1f1*_ga*MTYyODk1Mjc3Ni4xNzc5Mjg4NDQ1*_ga_VGX2640F9T*czE3ODkxNTc3NTEkbzE1NCRnMSR0MTc4OTE1OTAwNyRqNTckbDAkaDA.*_ga_G99DMMNG39*czE3ODkxNTc3NTEkbzE0OSRnMSR0MTc4OTE1OTAwNCRqNjAkbDAkaDA.&query=A%20Garden%20for%20the%20Rusty-Patched%20Bumblebee&searchType=smart "https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?_gl=1*f3a1f1*_ga*MTYyODk1Mjc3Ni4xNzc5Mjg4NDQ1*_ga_VGX2640F9T*czE3ODkxNTc3NTEkbzE1NCRnMSR0MTc4OTE1OTAwNyRqNTckbDAkaDA.*_ga_G99DMMNG39*czE3ODkxNTc3NTEkbzE0OSRnMSR0MTc4OTE1OTAwNCRqNjAkbDAkaDA.&query=A%20Garden%20for%20the%20Rusty-Patched%20Bumblebee&searchType=smart") with Sheila Colla, as part of TPL's environmental program series, [Our Fragile Planet](http://tpl.ca/fragileplanet?_gl=1*g8zm29*_ga*MTE5NTI3NDU1Ny4xNzU0NDg5MTI0*_ga_G99DMMNG39*czE3NzEwMTk5NTMkbzE4JGcxJHQxNzcxMDIwMTUzJGo1NyRsMCRoMA..*_ga_VGX2640F9T*czE3NzEwMTk5NTMkbzE4JGcxJHQxNzcxMDIwMTUwJGoyNCRsMCRoMA..), supported by Friends of Toronto Public Library, South Chapter.​ Free. Register for a reminder. Doors open at 6:30 pm for attendees to mingle, chat with Lorraine, and explore related resources. Presentation begins at 7:00 pm. **Place a hold or borrow from Toronto Public Library:** * **[A Garden for the Rusty-patched Bumblebee](https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/4182820234)** (book) * **[A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee](https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/8820424980)** (ebook) This program will also be offered virtually on [Tuesday, November 3, 2026](https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6abc0fdb377296003a4874e7), from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm, as part of Climate Action Week. To register for the online program and for more info, see the [listing](https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6abc0fdb377296003a4874e7). Photo credit & info: [https://www.savethebumblebees.ca/poster/](https://www.savethebumblebees.ca/poster/) **Accessibility** Live or automated closed captioning, sign language interpretation, intervenor services, or attendant services are available upon request. Please submit your request at least 2 weeks in advance to: [tpl.ca/accessibility-events](https://tpl.ca/accessibility/accessibility-supports/programs-and-events/?_gl=1*v83hy7*_ga*NDk5MDg2NTE1LjE3NjYwMDgxODQ.*_ga_G99DMMNG39*czE3NjkxMDY3NDMkbzE0JGcxJHQxNzY5MTA2ODM0JGozOCRsMCRoMA..).

Responsive Installations: Using Sensors to Control the Visuals

James is running a workshop with Creative Code Toronto and InterAccess! **NOTE: You need to register with InterAccess for this event! [https://www.tickettailor.com/events/interaccess/2459719](https://www.tickettailor.com/events/interaccess/2459719)** More info at InterAccess: [https://www.interaccess.org/events/responsive-installations-using-sensors-to-control-the-visuals](https://www.interaccess.org/events/responsive-installations-using-sensors-to-control-the-visuals) Public installations come alive when they react to the people around them. In this three-hour workshop, you'll learn how to use sensors that detect motion, distance, touch and more to drive real-time animations. This session bridges code and the physical world. Using a Raspberry Pi and p5.js, we'll wire up sensors, read their signals, and map them to visual parameters such as colour, motion and scale. By the end, you'll have a working responsive prototype, the practical skills to build work that responds to its audience, and a clear path to scaling it into a full installation. **What you'll learn** * Wiring sensors to a Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins * Sending sensor readings from the Pi into a p5.js sketch * Mapping user interactions to animation and visuals * Tips for making installations reliable in public spaces **Target Audience** Artists and creative technologists who want to create interactive installations for public spaces, such as art festivals, or experience-based activations for brands. This workshop is designed for beginners with some coding experience. No electronics experience is needed. **Capacity** Space is limited to 10 workstations. Participants are welcome to work in pairs. **NOTE: You need to register with InterAccess for this event! [https://www.tickettailor.com/events/interaccess/2459719](https://www.tickettailor.com/events/interaccess/2459719)**

Pink Pace Collective - 3K to 4K Run

Come run with Pink Pace Collective 💕🏃‍♀️ A women’s running community built around movement, connection and feeling safer together. ***Meet at the community centre doors*** ✨ All paces welcome no one gets left behind 💕 Come solo or bring a friend 🏃‍♀️ Run, jog or take it at your own pace 🤝 Meet new women and build community 🌙 For evening runs, reflective gear/lights are encouraged Please arrive 10–15 minutes early so we can meet, warm up and head out together. Community over competition. Run together, safer together. 💗 Follow @pinkpacecollective for upcoming runs, updates and events.

Hands-on Lab: Shift left with reliability testing

**BRING YOUR COMPUTERS TO THIS EVENT! And check out the prerequisites below.** Join us for the second hands-on lab session, snacks, and discussion! This time around instead of talks we are going to run a free hands-on lab on how to get started with reliability testing. We'll teach you how to setup various levels of reliability testing for your application services. **Repository** https://github.com/grafana/grafanacon-2026-k6-workshop Please use Git and clone the above repository before coming to the workshop to save time and get started faster. **Prerequisites** In order to participate in the lab, you must have a laptop with Wi-Fi/Internet connectivity, running Linux/MacOS/Windows. * The following also needs to be installed: * Git * IDE installed like [VSCode](https://code.visualstudio.com/download) or [Cursor](https://cursor.com/download). * [k6 OSS](https://grafana.com/docs/k6/latest/set-up/install-k6/) binary installed * [k6 studio](https://grafana.com/docs/k6-studio/set-up/install/) installed **Again special thanks to Nokia and Mark Prosser for hosting us at their downtown office.** **Agenda:** 6:00-6:15 PM: Arrivals and introductions 6:15-7:40 PM: Hands-On Lab 7:40-8:00 PM: Q&A, networking and wrap up **Facilitators:** Cristiano Ventura, Marylia Gutierrez and Nikola Grcevski

Toronto Young Professional & Startup Enthusiast Meetup

Welcome to the Toronto Young Professional & Startup Enthusiast Meetup Group! Navigating work/personal life in this mega city can be challenging ! We welcome all the Toronto young professionals & startup lovers to join this community that provides you an inclusive and casual platform to share, discuss, and grow! No matter what career stage you are at, what industry you work for, or what startup idea you are brainstorming, this inclusive & vibrant community aims to help you embark on your new personal/work journey! If work sounds annoying to you or you are new to the city, you can just come have a coffee and meet new people! Let's exchange ideas and create new memories together! We welcome you to join us at Sweetway Cafe. We plan to meet weekly or biweekly at various locations in Toronto. If you have any suggestions for meeting locations or activities, feel free to let me know!

LCMP Session - 008

## **Let’s Make Something Real** You’re invited to a **Music Production Session** of **Pure Creation.** We’re stripping away the gatekeeping and the endless tutorials. This isn’t a masterclass; it’s a digital jam session where the goal is to walk out with a track that has everyone’s DNA on it. Whether you’re a professional sound designer or you just bought your first MIDI controller yesterday, if you have ideas, we want them in the mix. ### **The Vibe** * **Genre Agnostic:** From lo-fi beats and cinematic soundscapes to heavy techno or glitch—if it sounds good, it stays. * **DAW Agnostic:** Logic, Ableton, FL Studio, Bitwig? It doesn't matter. Use the tools that help you speak. * **Creation Over Teaching:** We believe the best way to learn is by doing. You’ll pick up tricks by osmosis, but our primary mission is the "Export" button. ### **How It Works** We’re keeping the workflow lean so we can stay in the flow state: 1. **Access:** Make sure to Register your spot on MeetUp as well as at [LCMP](lcmpbygoccai.com) to receive ***access links*** to all files as well as the ***final location*** for confirmed attendees. We’ll use a shared Dropbox folder to swap stems, loops, and one-shots in real-time. **Note:** If you are not signed up on [LCMP](lcmpbygoccai.com) **and** MeetUp, you wont receive access. 2. **Bring Your Gear:** Laptop + DAW + Headphones + Charging Cable, Extension Cord (If you need it) Ensure you’re ready to make noise the moment you plug in. 3. **The Master Mix:** We’ll have a central project running. 4. **The Drop:** You create a part, share it, and watch the track evolve. ### **The Essentials** * **Who:** Creatives, noisemakers, and rhythmic thinkers of all skill levels. * **The Goal:** Ensure every person in the room makes a tangible contribution to the final piece. * **The Energy:** High vibes, zero ego, and a shared love for digital alchemy. **Ready to plug in?** We’re keeping these sessions intimate to ensure the best workflow. Location and final logistics will be sent once your spot is confirmed. Register at [LCMP](lcmpbygoccai.com) **"Good energy, good people, and most importantly, good music."**

2026.06 - TrueNorthCTO (Toronto)

Creative Code Toronto meetup at InterAccess

Join us for a Toronto meetup of creative coders! This will be a venue to get to know each other and see what's going on in the community. We'll have a space downtown and some food available. We're partnering with [InterAccess](https://interaccess.org), a gallery, educational facility, production studio, festival, and registered charity dedicated to new media and emerging practices in art and technology! * If you've got a project you've worked on in the past that you're proud of, we'd love to see it and for you to walk us through what went into it. * If you're currently working on something or investigating some new ideas and feel like sharing, this would be a great time discuss your process so far! * If you haven't done anything yet but are interested in creative coding, we'd love to see what works have inspired you. Sign up here if you're interested in speaking! [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MsbtdvTGMNT75lqq4lnxydY4TczStAOZE1Ap8mQJKeM](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MsbtdvTGMNT75lqq4lnxydY4TczStAOZE1Ap8mQJKeM) **What is creative code?** *Creative coding* refers to anything with an artistic component that uses code as a medium. We welcome artists who use code (for visuals, audio, poetry, or whatever else), designers, animators, toolmakers, researchers, or just enjoyers and people looking to learn more! **Location:** InterAccess, at 32 Lisgar St. **Join our discord** if you want to talk to everyone before/after the event, or have any suggestions for things you'd like to see or do! [https://discord.gg/ux9txXPsdJ](https://discord.gg/ux9txXPsdJ)

Game Dev Monthly Meetup

Looking for your people? Come hang out with fellow game programmers, artists, audio engineers, musicians, and designers for a chill evening of shop talk, project sharing, and good company. Bring your laptop or devices if you want to show off what you're working on and get some playtesting and feedback. All skill levels welcome! Come whether you're shipping your tenth game or just enjoying the hobby. **No entry fee**. We're usually in the back of the first floor, but we'll post if that changes. Join the Discord community to keep up to date and continue sharing your progress! We run a monthly online show n' tell there as well! **Discord: [https://discord.gg/PW9YnAx6yx](https://discord.gg/PW9YnAx6yx)**

The Cybersecurity of Emerging Technology

***DEFCON Toronto (DC416) returns Monday, November 23, with two talks.*** **🎤 Alana Stasz · The Cybersecurity of Emerging Technology: Securing the Technology Stack of the Future** An interactive session on seven technologies, from IoT and 5G to AI, quantum computing and biocomputing, and the security problems that come from how tightly they now depend on each other. Alana is a cybersecurity consultant, researcher, and educator who teaches seminars on all seven. ⚡ **Lightning talk · Amir Hosseinpour · Rooting the Fleet** A household robot vacuum, a couple of questionable security choices by the vendor, and a flaw that let one ordinary account get root on any of those vacuums worldwide, along with their cameras, microphones, and saved maps of people's homes. Amir shares the research and the coordinated disclosure DC416 ran with the vendor. 📅 Monday, November 23, 6 to 9 PM 📍 Palo Alto Networks Canada 🎟️ RSVP here, or on our website: https://events.defcontoronto.ca/events/the-cybersecurity-of-emerging-technology-securing-the-technology-stack-of-the-future Seats are limited. If you can't make it, please cancel so someone on the waitlist gets your spot. Updates and chat between meetups happen on our Discord: https://discord.gg/VDy69zgfc3 Everyone is welcome, whatever your experience level.

Nov 11 - Toronto Physical AI Workshop and Meetup

Join us at the University of Toronto on November 11 for the Toronto Physical AI Workshop and Meetup, co-presented by Nebius and Voxel51. Seats are limited, **[Pre-registration is mandatory.](https://voxel51.com/events/toronto-physical-ai-workshop-and-meetup-november-11-2026)** **Date, Time and Location** Nov 11, 2026 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM The Conference Centre at U of T Giovanni Room (2nd Floor) 89 Chestnut St. Toronto, ON M5G 1R1 **Meetup Agenda** *5:30–6:30 PM* * Networking, food, drinks, and lightning talks **Workshop Agenda** This hands-on session uses DROID, a real-world robotics dataset loaded into FiftyOne as a native multimodal MCAP recording, and YOLO11n, fine-tuned live during the session. *6:30–7:30 PM* * Welcome + framing: from raw robot logs to a trained detector * Explore a real DROID robotics recording in FiftyOne's native multimodal MCAP viewer: camera, proprioception, and language on one synced timeline, no ROS install required * Curate: extract and browse frames from the recording, filter and deduplicate * Compute embeddings on the curated frames; explore via similarity search and embeddings visualization (via Nebius Serverless AI Jobs) *7:30–8:00 PM* * Auto-label: open-vocabulary detection to generate bounding boxes for the robot gripper and target objects * Train: fine-tune a YOLO11n detector on the auto-labeled frames (via Nebius Serverless AI Jobs) * Evaluate results and close the loop: view predictions back on the original MCAP timeline *8:00–8:30 PM* * What else Nebius offers: Token Factory walkthrough — chat/vision models, fine-tuning, credits

Data & AI & IoT

\*\*Please note that this event requires your name and email address for QR code to get access to the building on the event day, you must register or else you will not receive a QR code for access\*\* [Link ](https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/Zvxe69amth)to Registration: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/Zvxe69amth **Agenda:** 5.30-6.30pm **Azure IoT updates** Speakers: [Peter Gallagher Microsoft MVP](https://sessionize.com/peter-gallagher/) [Sander van de Velde Microsoft MVP](https://sessionize.com/sandervandevelde/) [Clifford Agius Microsoft MVP](https://sessionize.com/clifford-agius/) [Callon Campbell Microsoft MVP](https://sessionize.com/calloncampbell/) [José Simões Microsoft MVP](https://github.com/josesimoes) 6.30-7.45pm **Enterprise Data & AI with Snowflake and Databricks on Azure** [Ehsan Eskandari Microsoft MVP](https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-US/mvp/profile/0abad6dc-5a32-e811-8112-3863bb353d80) 7.45-8pm **Bringing Real‑Time Intelligence to Airport Data Streams** [Callon Campbell Microsoft MVP](https://sessionize.com/calloncampbell/)