How Tech Works What Will Months of Catching Pokémon Do To Your Battery? Everyone knows Pokémon GO wreaks havoc on your daily battery life. But that hasn’t stopped people from playing it. And since we’ll probably still be dodging mobs of Pokémon hunters… July 26, 2016 by Anthony Pileggi
How To How to Buy the Best Sewing Machine—New or Used Like almost everything else we’ve seen at iFixit, sewing machines aren’t really designed to last very long these days. Rob broke down the difference between the behemoths of yore and… June 27, 2016 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
How To How to Really Build a Budget Bike Repair Toolkit I’ve come across lots of articles that claim to tell you how to build a cycling toolkit for cheap. Somehow the word “cheap” stops recurring in the long list of… December 7, 2015 by Bek Maples
Repair Guides Repairs to Start Off Your School Year Summer vacation is nearly over! Textbooks, existential angst, and student loans loom on the horizon. What's a student to do? In our opinion, the best way to prepare for the… August 27, 2015 by Ron Davis
Skills Everything You Wanted to Know About Microsoldering The box arrived at our office early one morning—non-descript, heavy, and unmarked. Its very ordinariness obscuring the splendor of its contents. iFixit is in the business of tools and teardowns,… August 24, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Guides The Game Is On: Repairs to Get You Gaming Again Summer is here, and the good ol’ summer sun is in full force in our part of the country. As the temperature rises, a cool, crisp game of Tetris or… July 13, 2015 by Ron Davis
How Tech Works How’s That Newfangled Force Touch Trackpad Work? Our teardown engineer, the auspicious Andrew Goldberg, sits down with Gwendolyn Gay, host of iFixit's YouTube channel, to explain the mysterious inner workings of the Force Touch trackpad. Check out… March 13, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Guides No-Brainer Repairs for No Brainer Day Today, my friends, is a holiday. A holiday for you. A holiday for me. A holiday for people who need to take a little mental breather. Today is No Brainer… February 27, 2015 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
Repair Guides How Do I Fix My Drone? To get started, we invited our friend David Hoyt—Cal Poly Computer Engineering graduate and our local drone expert—to kick-start our Drone Repair section. David has built heavy lift octocopters to… February 25, 2015 by Andrew Goldheart
Repair Guides Repair Guides for Winter: Don’t Get Stiffed by Your Broken Stuff Baby, it’s cold outside! Well, not for us. We live in California, where it’s a currently hovering at a balmy 60 degrees. But, for the rest of the country, winter… January 12, 2015 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit