Ask HN: Casual hacking in bay area?

In Oakland, that's on the other side of the Bay, there's sudoroom and Ace Monster Toys:

https://www.acemonstertoys.org/

I've been to the sudo room but I haven't heard of AMT. Thanks.

There's a meetup for your favorite JS library here, but I haven't found a group that I deeply enjoy going to yet. The challenge has been finding the right proportions of casualness, skill, and drive to actually build something in a group.

I'm not far from Stanford, so I would also be interested in a good answer to this.

http://www.hackerdojo.com/