Free Geek Vlog Part 1

[nicklmg]

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Check out Free Geek Vancouver: http://www.freegeekvancouver.org/

 

Free Geek is an awesome tech shop here in Vancouver that accepts donations of old electronics and provides a thrift shop to find electronics on the cheap!

 

 

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

3:18, those are the exact speakers I'm using right now. Great speakers if you can even find a set. 

[Albatross]

That place looks fantastic!

[Jordaneer]

SO MUCH RAAAM, man I need a place like that around me, but thats the issue with living in a small community

[Jordaneer]

When does part two come out?

[Tassadar]

This is so cool. Every corner of the world needs a shop like this.

[iPolymer]

Theirs one were I live, I bet their going to get flooded with volunteers because of this video.I know where I', getting my "new" NAS 

[Nowak]

There's a Free Geek near where I live.

 

I think I'm gonna go pay them a visit at some point.

[QuackCocaine]

I wish they would open an eBay store  but I wish I were in Canada now

[Raffy98]

I want a store near me like this one SOO BAD!

It's great!

[Micwiz]

hey guys there is a free geek is the twin cites area(minneasota). it is smaller than the one in Vancouver, but is still the same setup with alot cool stuff there

[NinjaJc01]

I saw one of my PCs at 4:52 behind Luke.

[minemarcius]

You can work to get PCs? That's heaven right there

[deadlyquasar]

I've been very interested in starting something like this, anyone have information on where to start and regulations on this sort of business in California?

[RonHGeneral]

I didn't even know shops like this existed. 

I thought there were just factories that mass recycle electronics for their materials. But a shop that you can volunteer at and not only learn a bunch about different computer parts but also get a discount to buy or take an older computer with you is a pretty cool idea. It would be nice to work at one of these computer repair/recycle shops without actually getting a job at one and being forced to work long hours. Just casually work whenever you have free time and when you have enough hours stacked up you can get a discount off a newer item or take home something older for free. You could probably put that on your resume too. 

[georgetaylor11]

I wish we had one of these near me in the south of England. Looks AWESOME - would certainly help them out too!

[Sam Z Man]

@Slick the hard drive destroyer press is called a arbor press, add that to your list of useless terms you never need to know in life.

[xnamkcor]

I'm pretty sure the unknown drive at 03:00 was a CD-ROM drive.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddy_(hardware)

[Roars]

These vlogs are awesome! I love the idea of that shop. Wish we had something like that here. Looking forward to more

[deadlyquasar]

On 2/13/2016 at 5:58 PM, xnamkcor said:

I'm pretty sure the unknown drive at 03:00 was a CD-ROM drive.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddy_(hardware)

He mentioned the name there from what I saw, looks like its one of these guys 

 

 

[AshleyAshes]

So for those of you in the Greater Toronto Area, I checked out the Toronto FreeGeek and I want to report what I found.  Disappointingly, it was not the spare retro part mecca that the Vancouver one seemed to be.  They explained to me that there were different logistical and resource issues that leave the Toronto location operating differently.  If you want to find some weird part from 5-10 years ago, this isn't the place to go.  What it Toronto FreeGeek was was a place that mostly refurbed discarded/donated laptops to resell them to those who are lower income and otherwise afford a laptop of their own, they employ people who are on income supports to do this work as a means of training them to hopefully find other employment in tech once they leave the place.  They explained that there was little money in desktop components most of the time, so laptops were their focus since they kept the place afloat and allowed them to do good work.  Keep laptops out of the dump?  Make computers accessible to those of lower income brackets?  Employ and train people who are on some form of income support?  I really respect all three of these efforts so while I did not buy any 2GB DDR2 sticks and LGA775 coolers like I'd hope to find, I did donate $100 to their cause because it seemed like good work that they were doing.

 

...Also, they said that in the last couple of weeks @Linus video had left them inundated with sixteen year old boys hoping to build their own Junkyard Gaming Machine.

[DakotaTechTips]

Where can I sell my various boards for scrap? I also have aprox. 20 lbs of old AMX equipment that I am willing to sell.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On ‎2016‎-‎02‎-‎16 at 4:22 PM, AshleyAshes said:

So for those of you in the Greater Toronto Area, I checked out the Toronto FreeGeek and I want to report what I found.  Disappointingly, it was not the spare retro part mecca that the Vancouver one seemed to be.  They explained to me that there were different logistical and resource issues that leave the Toronto location operating differently.  If you want to find some weird part from 5-10 years ago, this isn't the place to go.  What it Toronto FreeGeek was was a place that mostly refurbed discarded/donated laptops to resell them to those who are lower income and otherwise afford a laptop of their own, they employ people who are on income supports to do this work as a means of training them to hopefully find other employment in tech once they leave the place.  They explained that there was little money in desktop components most of the time, so laptops were their focus since they kept the place afloat and allowed them to do good work.  Keep laptops out of the dump?  Make computers accessible to those of lower income brackets?  Employ and train people who are on some form of income support?  I really respect all three of these efforts so while I did not buy any 2GB DDR2 sticks and LGA775 coolers like I'd hope to find, I did donate $100 to their cause because it seemed like good work that they were doing.

 

...Also, they said that in the last couple of weeks @Linus video had left them inundated with sixteen year old boys hoping to build their own Junkyard Gaming Machine.

I would visit the Vancouver one, but it's like in a shady area of East Vancouver. Wouldn't go there unless I drove.

[idmb]

Ugh. They just announced they’re closing because money. 

[Lightwreather]

1 hour ago, idmb said:

Ugh. They just announced they’re closing because money. 

Specifically their Vancouver branch from what I can understand. The other branches seem to still be operational.

There is a possibility I'm missing something here.