Free repairs/Repair cafe fall 2026: This time, it's Tuesday
Hey y'all and welcome back to campus. For those of you who are new students, this is Dr. Josef Velten, a lecturer in the college of Engineering. I and some volunteers put on weekly(ish) clinics where we will attempt to fix your stuff, free of charge. We mostly end up working on things like laptops, phones, electric skateboards/scooters, and so on, but we've done things like camera repair, vacuum repair, space heaters, a C6 corvette logic board, and other weird stuff that we always have fun with.
Now the repairs themselves are free of charge, but if you need parts, then you have to bring them in. We will not buy them for you, and there is no 'pay you back later' kind of stuff. No money changes hands here, this is just people helping each other out. As a rule, I run the event on the 2nd floor of the library, in the maker-space studio from 12-4 p.m., and for this semester, I'll be there on Tuesdays, instead of Thursdays this semester. I'll be making announcements on reddit, and may end up putting up some flyers around on campus with some information as well.
And of course, we are always happy to have you come down and learn as a volunteer. If you can imagine yourself spending about 3-4 hours once a week, we welcome you to come on down and join our party. No prior knowledge, no problem! We teach and train, and are happy to help you out.
You can join our wonderful party of misfits, like:
Billy, the guy who dresses like an IT nerd from the early 2000s, complete with ponytail and a previous job as a repair shop worker. Ask him about his supercomputer.
Yara, resident student with tiny, raccoon like fingers*, who loves puttering with retro equipment.
Jason, who has delved too deep, too greedily into arcade games coming out the other end building his own arcade peripherals.