Collaborate Disseminate
The new exemptions are a major win for the right to repair movement and give consumers wide latitude to legally repair the devices they own. Continue reading In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal
As Apple continues to fight independent repair, Motorola partners with iFixit and supports the right to repair movement. Continue reading Motorola Becomes First Smartphone Company to Sell DIY Repair Kits to Its Customers
We often lament that the days of repairable electronics are long gone. It used to be you’d get schematics for a piece of gear, and you could just as easily crack it open and fix something as the local repairman — assuming you had the knowledge and tools. But today, everything is built to be thrown away when something goes wrong, and you might as well check at the end of a rainbow if you’re searching for a circuit diagram for a new piece of consumer electronics.
But [Robson] writes in with an interesting story that gives us hope that …read more
Continue reading You’ll Flip for This 7404 IC Motherboard Fix
New research showed that 90 percent of contacted companies told customers that repairing their own device would void the warranty; that’s illegal under federal law. Continue reading 45 Out of 50 Electronics Companies Illegally Void Warranties After Independent Repair, Sting Operation Finds
Failure to run Apple’s proprietary diagnostic software after a repair “will result in an inoperative system and an incomplete repair.” Continue reading Apple’s New Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros
When Surya Raghavendran dropped his iPhone, he learned to repair it himself. Now he wants to protect that right for everyone in his home state of Michigan. Continue reading This 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan’s Leading Right to Repair Advocate
We’ve likely all seen a power tool with a less-than-functional strain relief at one end of the power cord or the other. Fixing the plug end is easy, but at the tool end things are a little harder and often not worth the effort compared to the price of just replacing the tool. There’s no obsolescence like built-in obsolescence.
But in the land of Festo, that high-quality but exorbitantly priced brand of premium tools, the normal cost-benefit relationship of repairs is skewed. That’s what led [Mark Presling] to custom mold a new strain relief for a broken Festool cord. The …read more
Continue reading Damaged Power Cord Repaired With Shop-Made Mold
The California Farm Bureau has agreed to a toothless version of “right to repair” that was written by tractor manufacturers. Continue reading Farmer Lobbying Group Sells Out Farmers, Helps Enshrine John Deere’s Tractor Repair Monopoly
Weaving, in the end times. Continue reading These Post-Apocalyptic Looms Were Made From E-Waste
By actively discouraging people from repairing their own consoles, Sony has left many gamers beholden to its repair service—which is now ending. Continue reading After 18 Years of Telling You Not to Fix it Yourself, Sony Will Stop Repairing the PlayStation 2