Teardowns The Novena All-in-One Desktop: Not Your Average Teardown A couple days ago, my boss, Kyle, handed me a plain brown box and asked if I knew Bunnie. You know, the guy who (literally) wrote the book on hacking… February 4, 2015 by Andrew Goldheart
Right to Repair Announcing the Digital Right to Repair Coalition Under the pretense of enforcing copyright law, manufacturers have been systematically chipping away at our ownership rights. That’s not acceptable. And iFixit isn’t just going to stand by and watch… January 28, 2015 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
E-Waste Infographic: Just How Big Is the E-Waste Crisis? Just how much e-waste is piling it up around the globe? A new infographic from CustomMade breaks down the good, the bad, and the deadly. According to CustomMade, "the global… January 26, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Consumer Rights It Should Not Be Illegal to Hack Your Car’s Computer Cars have a profound legacy of tinkering. Hobbyists have always modded them, rearranged their guts, and reframed their exteriors. Which is why it’s mind-boggling to me that the Electronic Frontier… January 23, 2015 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
E-Waste Meet the Men Who Made Us Spend If you’ve ever been at the tail end of a line full of cranky, frenzied, mashed-potato-fueled Black Friday shoppers, you know: we’re a consumer society. Even after the holidays, exorbitant… January 21, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Recycling You Won’t Believe What Scientists Are Doing with Fish Sperm In yet another fascinating episode of “Yeah science, bitch!,” it turns out that salmon semen is good for more than just making more salmon. Aside from being a delicacy in… January 19, 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
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
Fixers Meet the Micro Soldering Mom When Jessa's kids flushed her iPhone down the toilet, she decided she was going fix it herself. After all, the only thing wrong was a tiny charging coil on the… January 7, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Fixers ‘Car Talk’ Thinks Repair Is Noble, Too If we could boil iFixit down to one single tenet, it would be this: Repair is noble. To us, repair is more than a transitory act. It has lasting effects.… January 6, 2015 by Julia Bluff