Fixers New York Fixers Collective Breaks the Mold by Fixing Stuff Together Collaboration is so widely and enthusiastically lauded that even the word "teamwork" feels like a cliché. Yet, much repair ends up being a solitary experience. If you're looking for a… February 1, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Activism Jailbreaking Is Not a Crime: An Interview with bunnie Huang If you want it to be legal to jailbreak or root your iPhone, iPad, or Xbox, you don't have long to tell the US Copyright Office. We talk a lot… January 31, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design Autodesk Endorses Repair Manifesto, Teaches Repairable Design Our Self-Repair Manifesto declares that we all should hold companies accountable for making repairable and serviceable devices: we need standard screw heads, snaps and screws rather than glues, and readily… January 31, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories Seating a Tire Bead with Fire in Kenya The man squatting on the ground put a little bit of gasoline around the rim, then lit it on fire. The tire then popped into place. January 30, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Fixers Sewing Machine Repair in Seelampur India is the second largest producer of textiles in the world, after China; it produces 23% of the world's textiles, by spindles. Seelampur (also spelled Silampur) in northeast Delhi is… January 29, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Tools Let’s Play Name That Object in India! Two men sit in a Delhi shop with shiny metal cylinders stacked from floor to ceiling. When I first saw this picture, I couldn’t figure out what they were—not motors,… January 28, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Fixers iFixit Answers Repair Guru Mayer Hits 100K Reputation Points Richard Mayer has been answering people’s repair questions on iFixit Answers, our repair question & answer forum, for just over two years now. Answers has a reputation system, designed to… January 27, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Fixers Tim Hunkin, Engineer Cartoonist Jeff Stephens is an inventory specialist at iFixit. He posted earlier this week about Museum Wax. On the early ‘90s Discovery Channel show The Secret Life of Machines, an enthusiastic man… January 27, 2012 by Jeff Stephens
Recycling More Proof You Shouldn’t Blindly Trust Your e-Waste Recycler As a follow-up to my recent post about e-waste recycling certification, I thought I’d share a story about a “recycler” caught in the act of illegally shipping used electronics to… January 27, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design Sprint Promises Improved Repairability, But Green Standards Fall Short Sprint recently announced a new set of criteria for their environmental scorecard, used to evaluate phones they sell. “Improved repairability” is on the list, in addition to green packaging requirements. January 26, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
