Fixers Artist To Draw Every Single Thing in His Late Grandfather’s Workshop When artist Lee John Phillip’s grandfather passed away, he left behind a workshop—its shelves buckling with decades of things that might prove useful someday. Phillips estimates that his grandfather collected… July 29, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories The Saddest Repair Story You’ve Ever Heard Sixteen years ago, Sony released the first Aibo—an adorably lifelike robot dog. Just like real dogs, Aibo responded to commands, played fetch, did tricks, interacted with owners, and had its… July 9, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Fixers Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Fixer Every once in a while, we like to share the stories of cool fixers with our community: So, meet Angela Henderson. Angela is a California repairwoman and owner of Built… July 7, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Fixers Are You a Fixer? The 3 Traits of People Who Repair Are you the MacGyver of your family, making plant hangers out of old wine bottles and removing stripped screws with the help of a rubber band? Do you feel proudest… June 30, 2015 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Events 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
Repair Stories Smashed, Shorted, and Soldered: How I Got My Broken Drone Airborne Again I love my Hubsan X4 107L—a 30-gram micro-quadcopter that is supposedly built to take all the abuse you can throw at it. But a series of bad crashes left my… March 30, 2015 by Evan Noronha
Repair Stories I Lived With a Broken Screen on my iPhone 5S—Then Fixed It Myself I teach people how to repair things for a living, so I know better than most that things break. Often catastrophically. I just didn’t think it would happen to me.… March 5, 2015 by Miro Djuric
Repair Stories How NASA Makes Old Things New Again to Solve the Mysteries of the Universe You can’t miss the engineering marvels when you walk into the hangar at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. When I was at the facility, I saw various vintages of aircraft… March 3, 2015 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
Repair Stories Schoolhouse Repair Rocks Jason Kingsnorth does a bus-load of repairs. Like, a school bus-load. He’s a Technology Aide/Coordinator at Bradley Schools in Bradley, Illinois—and half of the IT team that manages maintenance of… February 24, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories School of Hard Drive Knocks At Pacific Lutheran University, a student-run help desk will service "anything with a current." David Domask has trained 17 student techs, many of whom arrive with no prior repair experience—and… January 14, 2015 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit