As a non-profit community organization that recycles and refurbishes used technology, Free Geek happily provides computers, education, and job skills training to volunteers in exchange for their service.
REUSEFree Geek grants computers to schools & charitable organizations in our community who in turn benefit others. Learn about them…
RECYCLE
What we don’t reuse gets recycled to the toughest standard based on the BAN principles to keep toxic e-waste chemicals out of our landfills. More…
EDUCATE
We provide classes and technical support to ensure successful reuse for our computer recipients. Volunteers learn about the inner workings of a computer while they earn hours to receive a free computer. More…
Bike Lights, with batteries for life!
We are now carrying the Knog Beetle bike lights, available in black, translucent and hot pink. They come in both front (white) and rear (red), and with 2 LEDs, they are much more visible and effective than the single-LED Frogs we’ve previously offered.
The one drawback of these little dynamos is that the batteries can be expensive. But, as luck would have it, Free Geek is swimming in these things, since they’re the same button batteries that run the system clock on almost every computer we recycle.
We sell the lights for $15/ea. (well under retail), but we also give you a laminated card that entitles you to exchange dead batteries for good ones, tested to have plenty of life left. Here’s the legalese from the card:
The bearer of this card is entitled to exchange up to 5 dead 3.0v, wafer batteries (a.k.a. 2032s) for working ones each day in the Free Geek Thrift Store. This offer will remain valid as long as we are able to meet the demand. Barring plague, pestilence, Zombie Apolcalypse, the imposition of martial law, or the Earth’s sun experiencing a supernova event, we see no reason we will not be swimming in these things for a long, long time; we can’t legally use the F-word, so let’s just call it “Phorever.”
Design the next Free Geek t-shirt!
The PR Committee was scratching our collective head about new designs for a Free Geek T-Shirt, when somebody said: “Hey! Let’s crowdsource it!” To which everyone else said, “Wha?”
We finally managed to translate the geek jargon into proper English, then agreed to open up the design to suggestions from everyone. So, here’s the details:
Send us any ideas you have for the next Free Geek t-shirt design. Designs don’t have to be polished, as long as the idea is clear.
Email files/photos to press@freegeek.org, or drop off designs/scribbles at the Front Desk anytime between now and July 4.
We’ll pick at least one design to turn into actual, real-life t-shirts (sweat-free and organic, of course). The winner will get 5 shirts to give out to friends (or hoard for themselves, for that matter).
Open Source, baby!
Web Form Snafu!
If you submitted a web-form to us anytime between April 27th and May 9, we did not receive it due to a technical glitch (we won’t bore you with the details). This includes all hardware grant applications, requests for information on volunteering, requests for event participation–anything you may have submitted to us via our website.
We sincerely hope this message finds you, and that you contact us again. It’s not that we’re being flakes. We can all blame technology together.
Requests sent via email were mostly unaffected. If you emailed us and we didn’t get back, that probably is us being flakes. If in doubt please resend.
All apologies for the inconvenience!
