GOAT Notes #3: Repair kits!
Welcome to the newsletter for Grassroots Open Assistive Tech!
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Love Your Ride workshop in SF
Saturday, Feb 22, GOAT is hosting another workshop at ILRCSF, “Love Your Ride”. We will give out our free wheelchair maintenance and emergency repair toolkits! And, with a crew of volunteers, we’ll be going through the basics for keeping walkers, rollators, wheelchairs, and powerchairs in good condition.
To register, please email Brianna Sendziak at Brianna@ilrcsf.org with your name, phone number, and any particular access needs you have. We’d love to see you there!
And, to support this work, please DONATE TO GOAT - we are buying tools, printing instruction booklets, and so on, and need your help!
Archive Team
This last month, GOAT’s archive team has been working hard on scanning and uploading DIY info, so that it is free for anyone around the world to read and use.
For example, here’s a 1977 book with complete plans on how to build a wheelchair lift for a van, from scratch. There are already guides and videos for this online. But they often assume you will be buying a lift system for thousands of dollars. If you aren’t able to buy it, but you have engineers around with the mechanical skills and tools to build it, this book would be invaluable.
It’s been lovely getting together with Veronica, Karen, Milo, and Jack (sometimes together and sometimes separately) to do our librarian magic! I make lunch for everyone and we work from my dining room table. It’s like the best sort of cosy librarian tea party!
Take a look at what we’ve scanned so far!
What we do
Grassroots Open Assistive Tech’s purpose is to document, curate, preserve, make accessible, and freely share assistive technology designs and information under open licenses, as well as providing coordination and education to affiliated communities.
We will support disabled people in making their designs and builds available for public good, and in having free to use designs available to them for their own use.
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GOAT is a 501(c)(3) organization and your donations are tax deductible. EIN: 93-3313503.
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PayPal donation email: liz@openassistivetech.org.
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