Free Geek Twin Cities: E-Waste and Education
Free Geek Twin Cities: E-Waste and Education
Most old computers and electronics end up in a landfill or scrapped for raw materials. But a nonprofit in Minneapolis, Minnesota takes the tech we no longer want and turns it into an educational opportunity.
Free Geek Twin Cities: http://www.freegeektwincities.org
Sources:
Free Geek Portland photos courtesy Angela Holm, http://www.angelaholmphotography.com
The Sunday Oregonian, “Nonprofit gives old computers new life” by Richard Colby. November 19, 2000.
Minnesota Daily, “Free Geek to open in Mpls” by Krista Webb. September 28, 2009.
Minnesota Public Radio, “Free Geek program seeks to increase computer ownership” by Jessica Mador. October 26, 2009.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2009/10/26/free-geek-computer-ownership
Motherboard CPU socket image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Supermicro_dual_opteron_server_board_cpu_socket_IMGP7338_wp.jpg
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Shame on you for not testing crt tvs and monitors, crt tvs are good for old consoles, esp if they have composite, svideo, component in at minimum, which are the common major standards that are actually used in the real world. I can see if you gave them out for free or cheap for people with such projects (could ask for proof like a picture of that person with console/games that would benefit from such a thing. Those CRT monitors could at least be tested if not repaired to sell to people who want to play vintage computer games (dos, 95, 98 era).
its literally just a waste!
and even MORE shame for not saving pata drives! I understand running dban on em fine. But cmon its cheap and easy and a good learning experience to TEST those out and sell for cheap for people who actually want to use them in old machines. Shame on you old man, you of all people there SHOULD know better and should promote such things! You know you aren’t getting much in scrap value and could EASILY make more from reselling. And pata can still be run even under a modern OS, if you don’t mind it being slow.
I understand getting rid of printers, fax machines, dial up modems without a secondary function fine. Most of that should go unless its high end or proprietary or modern enough to still be viable on the cheap
My retro buddies would do a lot for those PATA drives and some CRTs but yeah shipping kills on those.
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Loved it!
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not rilly im just so jeles
I love going to e waste centers, I’m watching this on a computer I bought from an e waste center!
Please save the Apple computers their valuable
how you get their by bus
wish we had them in the uk
Wish there was something like this in San Diego CA.
I laugh at this saying how danagerous tvs are wow I see they don’t really knowledge or any back ground
Lovely documentary. Looks and sounds very professional. Kudos! And a great cause!
SO COOL! i would love to go their sometime!
There are some incredibly high-end builds at Free Geek now, all built from recycled parts. A few in recent memory include a 7700K build with 32GB of RAM and dual 980 TI’s, 5960X custom loop build with 64GB and dual 970s, and a 6700 build with 32GB and a 1070.
thank you for the video
this is looking like a place where i can spend my 24/7
Im the "Every device has a soul"type of guy,but at least they have some use other than weird geeks like me.
Man now I want something like this in my area. How do I start doing something like that in the first place??
Too bad France doesn’t have FreeGeek :'( … but great video!
I’ve always wanted a free geek to open by me. I would love to take apart and fix computers all day. Such a relaxing experience.
What do they do with the tablets and phones ? I’m willing to buy faulty non working ones
So much of my retro tech computers – particularly my Apple collection pre-Intel transition is from a local tech recycling co-op here in Australia where I live – have loved volunteering there for nearly 10 years now. Catching up with these videos – really love this work. (i have newer bought tech tho.)
this small company actually wipes HD before redeploying or even recycling. the sad part here is that those commercial scanners you find at Office Depot, college campus, government operated offices, and medical facilities do not do this because of the dollar value involved. those scanners store petabytes of information on physical hard drives that are often donated or sold off to overseas buyers. no wonder there is such an issue with identity theft. if this small company can do this why cant those other business that make millions more in profits???
I used to sell thrift store computers that I rehabbed back in the early 2000s. The market has dried up and the supply is not there anymore. The fun of it was bringing PCs back from the dead-there was no real profit in it. I love the idea of rehabbing old PCs and putting them back in circulation. I have always loved to reuse old things in the "modern age".
that thumbnail is fucking glorious
Thank you so much for spending the time to shoot and edit this together into an exceptionally well-made video. This was inspiring!
professional documentary
This could/should run on the TPT Minnesota channel. Very well produced.
This is the exact same Free Geek that I go to.
I have recently picked up a green iMac G3 (fully working) for $90 there.
wooow, i don’t wanna live anymore in europe!
🙁
I really hope one opens here in Indiana sometime. I would buy lots of parts from them. I would also work with them in the recycling aspect of their business.
selling cpus by weight, $2.25/lb is a bit… wasteful.
Just mind blowing.
You’re a very talented documentary film maker. Well filmed, well recording, superb editing.
I want to translate this (LATAM es). What should I do?
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besides there is far better sources of metal, old cars, tractors in junkyards that could be saved and other things that could be saved! And where’s the practical use of space travel to get metal from other planets or asteroids? We may even find other materials even better suited for electronic use or may make a whole new method that puts the current one to shame. There’s a lot we could do to better the planet than scrap old computers.
wanna save on fossil fuels? Cut back dramatically on the number of races that go on all the time, make THEM use the hybrid parts and see how efficient and safe they are. You could simulate the races instead, you’d use power but save in far more areas. Reality is scrapping is inefficient, wasteful and technically creates much more e-waste than it saves and causes issues for many people and things.
But then again there’s a lot more "practices" all over the place that are just stupid and money grubbing that could solve countless issues for many people if they were just done right and not to be money grubbing or lazy or stupid in the first place
I really need to make a trip down there. I’d love to check out this place.
i could use a used macintosh
I’d love to see something like this where I live, I’d gladly go out and volunteer for something like this instead of wasting away being depressed all day. Might make it a goal to start something up like this myself!
Dude, you have an amazing voice. If you decide to do voiceover work you certainly have a future.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐….nuff said
I wish we have this organization in my country. I will be one of the volunteers, and I’m in heaven…
Can’t believe I missed this episode, glad you referenced it in your 2019 look-ahead video! Looks like a great cause, and to repeat the comments below – a very well done docu-short.
even the outside of the building is beautiful
Awesome video! I really enjoyed it, thanks!
as much asi want to o there to get some parts its like a amd cpu that i need cor my 2011 gaming pc i cant its closed
i have same computer model that was laying on the desk to the left at 0:32
Man I miss Free Geek. Used to be a part of FGM (Free Geek Michiana). Unfortunately, it crashed and burned in 2009-2010? Tom Brown the founder passed away in 2012. It closed the same year. I do miss the work… Well done Free Geek Twin Cities… Glad to see other Free Geek sites have survived.