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