Right to Repair in CA! My Victory Presentation :D

[Zach R]

 For the past few months I've been doing advocacy and technical work around the new Right to Repair law in California (SB244) which just went into effect this month!

I gave a very detailed presentation on my story at this years HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth conference).  It's highly applicable to anyone interested in Right to Repair, even if you don't have a power wheelchair.  Check it out!

I had a major victory working with the manufacturer (Whill) for parts and repair information.  While there were some road bumps, they were overall very cool and helpful.  Of course, Right to Repair offered them some, let's just say, "legal incentivization" to do the right thing :p

There's also an effort to strengthen Right to Repair for power wheelchairs right now in the CA Senate, so please sign on if you wanna support that 🙂 Remember that any victory for Right to Repair is a victory for hackers, tinkerers, and makers over big corporate lobby firms to control our technology!

Best wishes,

-Zach (@CriptasticHacker)

https://hackaday.io/CriptasticHacker

https://criptastichacker.neocities.org/ (site very much in progress, but with the R2R files!)