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New member orientation — README
Tracks, etiquette, and where to ask for a bench — the shortest path from hello to first commit.
Source DeTA internal
Open resourceResources & references
A shelf you can actually open mid-week.
Checklists, repos, threads, and reading lists curated by DeTA — practical surfaces for learning, building, and shipping. Nothing here needs a sales deck; it needs to work when you are tired and in a hurry.
Resource list
Toolkit
Firmware bring-up checklist
Power, serial, and the checks that save Sunday afternoons when the board is new.
Source Lab notes
Open resourceThread
Thread: signal vs noise in demos (opens in a new tab)
Community discussion on honest labeling, failure clips, and when to stop optimizing the deck.
Source Community forum
Open resourceRepo
Lab notebook template (opens in a new tab)
Markdown structure mentors use — hypotheses, measurements, and a “what broke” section.
Source GitHub
Open resourceBook
Interpretability reading syllabus (opens in a new tab)
Papers grouped by theme with discussion prompts — week-by-week, no gatekeeping.
Source Reading group
Open resourceArticle
Notes: civic API ethics
Consent, retention, and field deployment — questions before the dashboard exists.
Source Field notes
Open resourceToolkit
Game jam tooling stack (minimal)
Engine choices, version control, and audio pipelines that survived a 48-hour room.
Source Creative tech
Open resourceArticle
STRIDE whiteboard — student edition
Scribbles from a no-laptops session that still broke a toy API in fifteen minutes.
Source Security circle
Open resourceRepo
Sample campus lab topology (opens in a new tab)
VLANs, jump hosts, and where the logging actually lands — diagram + caveats.
Source Networking lab
Open resourceToolkit
Reproducibility checklist for ML experiments
Seeds, environments, and the boring files that make a result someone else can chase.
Source ML reading group
Open resourceBook
Creative code references — generative modesty (opens in a new tab)
Artists and tools worth stealing from slowly — with credit lines that hold up in public.
Source Shelf
Open resourceArticle
Partner brief — one pager
Constraints, success signals, and what “done” means before the first sprint day.
Source Partnerships
Open resource