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If you build it, we will come. When we gather with other fixers around the world, we document it here.

Meet Us at Bay Area Maker Faire

It’s that time of year again! The Bay Area Maker Faire is this weekend—May 16th and 17th at the San Mateo Event Center. If you’re planning to be at the…

May 14, 2015

by Kay Kay Clapp

Events

It’s Repair Conference Time

Ah, it’s that time of year again. The air is getting crisper. The days are getting shorter. The coffee is getting pumpkin spicier. And the repair, reuse, and recycling conferences…

October 17, 2014

by Julia Bluff

Events

Come Hang Out With Us At ICRS

If you have a hankering to see the folks from iFixit discuss the merits of repair, reuse, and refurbishment, we’ll be at a couple of conferences in the coming months.…

August 14, 2014

by Julia Bluff

Events

If You Make It, They Will Come: Maker Faire 2014

Drones lined with rainbow LED lights zoom pass. Children on steel, mechanical crustaceans charge through packed crowds. A giant metal octopus, named El Pulpo Mecanico, shoots bursts of fire into…

May 21, 2014

by Cait Emma Smith

Events

Repair First, Recycle Later

There are a lot of reasons why I’m involved in repair culture. Repair makes me feel empowered, it helps me learn engineering, and it connects me to my things. But…

March 27, 2014

by Cait Emma Smith

Events

Get Your Recommended Dose of iFixit at Macworld 2014

Are you going to Macworld? Because we are, and we’d like to meet you there. Macworld—held from March 27-29 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco—is the ultimate conference for…

March 20, 2014

by Julia Bluff

Events

First Live Q&A with iFixit

Hey, what are you doing on Thursday? Because you should cancel whatever lame dinner plans you have and come hang out with us instead. Join resident repair guru Gwendolyn Gay…

February 18, 2014

by Julia Bluff

Events

A Black Friday Tradition: Out with the New, In with the Old

It was Black Friday. A day of crowds. A day of clearances. A day of consumerism. But I was not in a line. And I would not be fighting through…

December 9, 2013

by Kyle Wiens - iFixit

Events

Get Ready! ICRS 2013 in New Orleans

This November, iFixit will be heading down to New Orleans for the annual International Computer Refurbisher Summit. We're making it easier for enterprising fixers to start their own businesses with the…

October 11, 2013

by Cait Emma Smith

Events

iFixit at NY’s World Maker Faire

“I’ve heard of these!” There’s something hilarious about watching an eight-year-old encounter a typewriter for the first time. I explained, “It’s like Microsoft Word, but without the screen." “How do you backspace?”…

October 2, 2013

by Jeff Stephens