The reviews are in, and there’s a clear consensus: Apple’s new iPhone SE is a really good deal. We’re not here to disagree. Our tests show you can repair it with a lot of the same readily available parts from the iPhone 8—and thanks to the same A13 …
Lees meerIn early September 2014, at a “Special Event,” Apple CEO Tim Cook paused after wrapping up of all the exciting new iPhone 6 features the company had unveiled. Cook invoked his Steve Jobs’ famous “one more thing” segue, for the first time since Jobs’…
Lees meerIt’s hard to get new things right now. Laptops, tablets, and home office devices are backordered into irrelevance. New “flagship” phones seem like even more of an unnecessary splurge than they already were. Even Amazon, torchbearer for frictionless …
Lees meeriFixit’s pretty fond of this big blue marble that we call home. We’re also pretty fond of electronics. So, in honor of Earth Day, here’s four really easy things you can do to save the earth—and save your electronics from the landfill too. What’s the…
Lees meerThis is What’s In Your Toolbox?, an occasional post series where we showcase tools and tips from our favorite fixers. Today we’re featuring Xyla Foxlin, executive director of Beauty and the Bolt, a Cleveland-based non-profit that works to diversify …
Lees meerTwo weeks ago, we encouraged you to repair, build, or make something at home and to share your #FixAtHome stories on Twitter and Instagram. We ran this campaign to raise awareness of repair as a solution—not just during COVID-19, but always. Repair …
Lees meerWe’ve said it before, and we’ll keep saying it as long as we need to: Americans want the Right to Repair their stuff. Today, a new survey published by Waveform, an online seller of cell phone signal boosters, shows that almost two thirds of American…
Lees meerApple today announced a new iPhone SE, a “smaller” phone that puts some of the iPhone 11 Pro’s premium processing power and camera features in the body of an iPhone 8, at a much reduced price. It’s a good time to sell an affordable phone, and we her…
Lees meerToday the treasurers of Colorado, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Delaware, and Rhode Island asked ventilator manufacturers to release key service information hospitals need to maintain their equipment. Their joint statement demands manufacturers “release a…
Lees meerIsopropyl alcohol is having a moment. Not an uplifting celebration, unfortunately. It’s more of a panicked where-can-I-find-it, is-this-the-same-stuff moment. Isopropyl alcohol is a disinfectant at its higher percentages, and you can use it to make …
Lees meerFor the last three weeks, we have been crowdsourcing thousands of repair documents for hundreds of ventilator models. These machines are critical in the fight against COVID-19 but they’re breaking—or already broken by the time they reach the hospita…
Lees meerMy friend’s Nexus 6P died while acting as navigator and DJ on a road trip from upstate New York to Manhattan in February 2017. The 6P froze, rebooted, displayed the Google logo, then rebooted dozens and dozens of times, offering no clue what was wro…
Lees meerNote: This is a guest post by Russell Graves, who writes about his computer, electrical, and other projects at Syonyk’s Project Blog. We thought this edited version of his essay, about his motivations to buy less and repair more, deserved to be seen…
Lees meerWhat a horrible time to have a Joy-Con curse. I refer, of course, to the curse of having the analog controller on your Nintendo Switch suddenly start drifting, at such a time as this. Link can’t hit anything with his bow, your Animal Crossing charac…
Lees meerFour days into my one-week crash course in board repair and microsoldering, I still had big questions. I’d learned a lot about diagnosing boards and reading schematics, and been through the tough learning curve of microsoldering. But some things kep…
Lees meerYou might assume we spent the whole weekend playing Animal Crossing (and you wouldn’t be totally wrong), but we had a few other things on our plate, too: we’re amassing medical ventilator repair information to keep as many of those in service as pos…
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