Free Geek Toronto

I was in Toronto at the beginning of March, and while I was in town I paid a visit to Free Geek Toronto.  They are located in a west end neighbourhood called The Junction.  

Here are a few pictures that I took:

The entrance is through an alley, the sign was slightly buried in the snow.

Main entrance

The store area. 

A build station.

I found this posted on the Free Geek Vancouver Google+ page, it's pretty awesome: Free Geek Commercial

Go watch the video, the you tube counter is only at 50 right now, let's see if we can double that!  Who said we don't think big at Free Geek.

Brought to you by Orange Peel Productions. Thanks organge peel for the awesomeness.
 

General Meeting Tuesday April 9th

The next Free Geek general meeting will be at the Free Geek Vancouver warehouse. Tuesday April 9th, 2013 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.

Free Geek on Google+

Hello Free Geek Followers, Alec has been busy being a dad, and hasn't had time to update this blog recently. My name is Justin Simpson, I am the newest Free Geek Vancouver board member, and I offered to help out by posting to this blog. For those of you interested in Free Geek Vancouver, if you use Google+, check out the Free Geek Vancouver page there. We'll continue to update this blog too, so stay tuned. Justin

New Blog

Unfortunately I haven't been able to volunteer at Free Geek in the last few months -- I have a baby daughter who demands and deserves as much free time as I can muster. While I still have projects on the go, their connection to Free Geek Vancouver has become tenuous enough that I've decided to separate them from this blog.

Please consider dropping www.cassettepunk.com into your feed reader. I'll be documenting my projects there. I'll continue to contribute to this blog when I have the chance to drop in, and will be soliciting contributors from the volunteer community to keep it lively.

The first new project I've described at cassettepunk.com is Nickelmatic, an automated Nickelback lyric generator.

Culture Crawl

Thanks to everyone who came out to say hi and see the wackiness at this year's Eastside Culture Crawl! This is easily one of my favourite events in Vancouver, but it's the first time I've ever participated as an artist.

Photo c/o Katrin

Phonetendo

I came across one of these in a local thrift store for $8:

Thrift stores are dangerous places to go; my powers of self-discipline can only be tested so far. Unlike the cabinet stereos that have troubled my past, this was fortunately small, cheap and clearly awesome. It begged to be adopted.