Fixers 5 Groups of Awesome Women Who Fix Stuff Repair can be a rather male domain: women make up just 7% of computer repair techs, and only 2% of car repair techs. But we know a lot of fixy… January 19, 2016 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Fixers This Cleverly Modified Bike Is a Sharp Idea In India, cycling isn’t a pastime; it’s a necessity. On the streets of Mumbai, you’ll see hawkers and farmers alike, peddling modified transport bikes (think pallets, rope, and training wheels)—going… January 13, 2016 by Evan Noronha
Fixers These High Schoolers Are Getting Resourceful with Their Broken Phones In New York City, a student at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School stuck his head through the doorframe and gave Jeannie Crowley an inquisitive look. “I heard you guys are… January 5, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Fixers Introducing Kids to Repair: It’s Easier Than You Think You cringe as you hear it—the horrendous crack as the iPad slips from a pint-sized hand and falls to the floor. The children gasp; the lamentations begin. The iPad is… December 9, 2015 by Kelsea Weber - iFixit
Fixers We’ve Got a Repair Crush on Patagonia Every tinkerer is an accidental environmentalist. Every fixer is waging an unwitting war against waste. Even if you repair just because you’d like to save money, even if you fix… November 25, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories Rescue Your Trapped Tunes from a Dead iPod Old playlists are instant time capsules. Rediscovering an old playlist is like digging into the sedimentary layers of your past—an emotional excavation, track by track. Ah yes, that’s what it… November 5, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Fixers Repair Cafés: Fix—With a Little Help from Your Friends No fixer is an island. So why not meet up and repair together—with a little “professional” guidance? That’s the idea behind the “Repair Café” movement. In those “cafés,” owners of… October 9, 2015 by Nina Steinhäuser
Repair Stories This MacBook Pro Comes Apart and Goes Back Together Again in 2 Minutes In this week’s episode of “Our Community Is Cool as Hell,” check out the time-lapse video that iFixit member "Bexoro" (aka Ben Orozco) made of his MacBook Pro repair. Ben… September 21, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories An Ode to Rick Astley and iPhone Battery Replacements Drained batteries are a drag. Drained batteries on an iPhone—especially when it won’t hold a charge for more than a couple of hours—is a super-mucho-grande drag. Dan Delany, a New… September 17, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories Fan Repair: So Easy These Gradeschoolers Can Do It There are two things we keep telling people about repair. (1) It’s probably easier than you think. (2) If it’s already broken and destined for the trash, you really have… September 14, 2015 by Julia Bluff