Collaborate Disseminate
A bicycle is perhaps one of the most repairable pieces of equipment one can own — no matter what’s wrong with it, and wherever you are on the planet, you’ll …read more Continue reading A Bicycle is Abandonware Now? Clever Hack Rescues Dead Light
Earlier this year, I bought one of those K40-style laser machines that was listed at a ridiculously low price, and it arrived broken. Well, let me qualify that: the laser …read more Continue reading Biting Off More Than I Can Chew
The proliferation of affordable lithium batteries has made modern life convenient in a way we could only imagine in the 80s when everything was powered by squadrons of AAs, or …read more Continue reading Have Li-ion Batteries Gone Too Far?
We used to say that fixing something was easier than bringing up a design for the first time. After all, the thing you are fixing, presumably, worked at one time …read more Continue reading Repairing a 1955 Classic Radio
Shortwave radio has a charm all its own: part history, part mystery, and a whole lot of tech nostalgia. The Hallicrafters S-53A is a prime example of mid-century engineering, but …read more Continue reading Shortwave Resurrection: A Sticky Switch Fix on a Hallicrafters
The toaster is a somewhat modest appliance that is often ignored until it stops working. Many cheap examples are not made to be easily repaired, but [Kasey Hou] designed a …read more Continue reading Flat Pack Toaster Heats Up the Right to Repair
Coming straight to the point: [Ron Hinton] is significantly braver than we are. Or maybe he was just in a worse situation. His historic Acer K385s laptop suffered what we …read more Continue reading LCD Stackup Repair: Not For the Faint of Heart
Ignoring the International Cycling Union‘s mostly arbitrary rules for what a bicycle is “supposed” to look like (at least if you want to race), there are actually reasons that the …read more Continue reading Bicycle Adds Reliability With Second Chain
When [Tahmid Mahbub] recently reached for his ‘Lavolta’ BPS-305 bench supply, he was dismayed to find that despite it being a 30V, 5A-rated unit, the supply refused to output more …read more Continue reading Repairing a BPS-305 30V Bench Power Supply
[Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial problem: only half of the keys worked. Each and every C#, D, D#, E, …read more Continue reading The Mystery of the Messed-Up Hammond X5