Recycling Consumer Electronics Recycling Up 53% in 2011 The Consumer Electronics Association reported yesterday that consumer electronics recycling increased 53% in 2011, up to 460 million pounds of responsibly recycled electronics, from 300 million pounds in 2010. CEA… April 17, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Tools What’s in Your Tool Kit? When we visited the Oakland technology project space Tech Liminal after MacWorld | iWorld in January, some Fixit Clinic folks there let us dig around in their tool kits. Steve… April 15, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
E-Waste Figure Out How to Track E-Waste, Win $10,000 Can you figure out how to track electronic waste as it moves downstream, from electronics recyclers to its final location in waste sites, scrap markets, or remanufacturing plants? Popular Science… April 14, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design Rare Look Inside Foxconn Reveals More Automation, Less Repairability Not very many reporters get inside the gates of Foxconn in Shenzhen, China, where workers assemble 40% of the world's electronics, including iPads and iPhones. But last week, American Public… April 13, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
How To Game On: How to Fix 3 Common Game Console Problems If you play video games, you probably know the feeling: You're all geared up to race against Bowser or show off your lightsaber skills or start thinking with portals, when… April 12, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories Learning Arduino Kung Fu When a postal truck arrives at the iFixit office with a delivery, we don’t even have to get up. All we have to do is tell our garage door robot,… April 11, 2012 by Alexander Jansen
Repair Stories Making a Motorcycle Talk: A Story of Motorcycle Repair From Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work: "Seeing a motorcycle about to leave my shop under its own power, several days after arriving… April 10, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Tools The Hand Tool Shortage That Stalled WWII I wouldn't have thought that the powerful Allied forces could have been stalled by a lack of wrenches and hammers—just as I wouldn't have expected that American soldiers in Iraq… April 9, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Recycling Let No Good Part Go to Waste I found this bike leaning against a wall in Kisumu, Kenya, which is a port city on Lake Victoria at the south-west corner of the country. The bike is welded… April 8, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Repair Stories It’s Important to Have a Back-Up Option I took this photo in Seelampur, after exploring the second-hand electronics market and watching some e-waste processing. In Delhi, I saw fixers turning almost any space into a repair space.… April 7, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
