---
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!