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Events this week! Tune Up & 3D printed tools

Published May 2, 2026 by Liz Henry

Our next Tune-Up workshop will be May 5 at the Disability Cultural Center! Register at https://disabilityculturalcenter.org

And, while this isn’t a GOAT sponsored event we want to promote the ILRCSF’s accessibility tools event the next day, on Wed. May 6 — It’s another “drop-in” style afternoon where you can come in and try some 3D printed assistive technology tools. These are often printed from free, open source designs, which means they can be easily customized to fit your needs!

3D Printing for Independent Living

 

 

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Tune-Up Tuesday, April 7th at the Disability Cultural Center

Published April 3, 2026 by Liz Henry

GOAT and ILRCSF and other volunteers will be at the Disability Cultural Center next Tuesday afternoon, April 7th from 2:30pm to 4:30pm. We will have free mini toolkits to give away!

As usual, we are at your service to look over your gear – wheelchair, powerchair, scooter, walker or rollator, or whatever other assistive tech you bring. We’ll hear you out to see what is broken, or might be improved, on your device, and will see what we can do to help with those issues.

That might be:
– teaching you and your friends/family basic maintenance and repair
– finding you the service manuals for your devices
– figuring out next steps with insurance, vendors, donations, or other resources

woman wearing a mask with tools working on a manual wheelchair with its rider consulting

The DCC has free tea, coffee, and snacks and is a great place to hang out. We set up on the outdoor patio but there is indoor space as well with nice couches and chairs. It’s by Civic Center BART and a block from the 49 bus stop.

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Be Seen! on Halloween – free workshop Oct 29th

Published October 24, 2025 by openassistivetech_e02gls

Add lights, reflectors, reflective tape, sparkly jewels, and other glowing things to your mobility gear, for fun and safety! If you have a wheelchair, scooter, walker, rollator, cane, or even a bike or stroller, and you’d like to bling it up, come by the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center, 165 Grove St. in the afternoon on Wednesday, October 29th, 1pm – 3pm.

You can help us out a lot by registering here: https://disabilityculturalcenter.org/event/been-seen-on-halloween/

We will have LED light strips, portable battery packs, reflective tape, glow in the dark paint pens, and other supplies.

a gleaming wheel of blue and green lights with a small battery pack attached

vince lopez in a flat cap holding a walker decorated with glowing lightstrips

Vincent Lopez from the ILRCSF will be there as well; he runs their wheelchair repair program and was co-host last year for GOAT’s Be Seen workshop. He can be available to consult for questions about repair and maintenance during the workshop as well!

If you can’t make it, and you’d like to get some of our useful lights or individual help, let us know and we can likely work something out — email to liz@openassistivetech.org.

A lady smiling proudly as she shows off her newly illuminated walker with spiral light strips attached.

Two asian american women smiling, one seated in powerchair with lights attached

Visiting the DCC:
map showing 165 grove street, at intersection of Grove and Van Ness, close to Civic Center BART or the Van Ness Muni train stop
Civic Center BART, Van Ness Muni station, or any of the many and frequent buses are a great way to get to the Civic Center area. The closest parking garage is at 360 Grove St. between Gough and Franklin.

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