E-waste event info

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+title: "E-Waste Meetup"
+date: 2024-05-11
+tags: [events, ewaste]
+author: LUG Board
+---
+
+* Date: Thursday, May 16 2024
+* Time: 18:15
+* Location: Boelter 1st Floor entrance, by the dumpsters
+
+## General Info
+
+This will be a small meetup where the fourth-year students will pass on their knowledge of the best
+spots on campus to find free e-waste.
+
+You might get your hands dirty, since we are going to be dumpster diving, but you might also walk
+away with some new hardware! Be ready to do some walking since the locations are fairly spread out.
+
+Open to all who are interested.
+
+## What to Expect
+
+There are almost always free office-grade monitors and keyboards to be found. It's also fairly
+common to see decade-old PCs with RAM and HDDs, provided that no one else scavenged them first.
+Sometimes, valuable stuff gets thrown away like oscilloscopes, Macs from < 10 years ago, CRTs, NVMe
+SSDs, and PCs from the 1980s (as featured at the [Spring Installfest](/events/installfest-s24)).
+
+The more valuable stuff could require some repairs, but it's not too difficult for a seasoned EE
+student. Actually, it might surprise you how much perfectly working stuff gets thrown out. Lots of
+the hard drives from labs don't even get wiped, and we've found adult content on them before...
+
+Your chances of finding something cool will go up the more regularly you check!