Collaborate Disseminate
Plastic is a highly useful material, but one that can also be a pain as it ages. Owners of vintage equipment the world over are suffering, as knobs break off, bezels get cracked and parts warp, discolor and fail. Oftentimes, the strategy has been to rob good parts from other …read more
Continue reading Reproducing Vintage Plastic Parts In Top-Notch Quality
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Continue reading Something went wrong, We couldn’t start your program – Office error
The biggest ICE raid in a decade, at a CVE Technology Group facility in Texas, went after the people who repair our phones. Continue reading ICE Raid on Samsung Repair Contractor Shows Big Tech’s Reliance on Exploitative Labor
Cell phone providers have actively lobbied against right to repair legislation, but Ting Mobile announced that it supports consumers’ right to fix the things they own. Continue reading A Cell Phone Carrier Breaks With Big Telecom, Announces Support for Right to Repair Legislation
A leaked internal document obtained by Motherboard outlines a program that looks almost exactly like the requirements of right to repair legislation that has been proposed in 20 states. Continue reading Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation
Warren becomes the most powerful national politician to support consumers who want to fix the things they’ve bought. Continue reading Elizabeth Warren Calls for a National Right-to-Repair Law
With Allstate’s purchase of iCracked, you could say the right to repair movement is … in good hands. Continue reading Insurance Giant Allstate Buys Independent Phone Repair Company, Joins Right to Repair Movement
Not every computer is a performance gaming rig. Some of us need cheap laptops and tablets for simple Internet browsing or word processing, and we don’t need to shell out thousands of dollars just for that. With a cheaper price tag comes cheaper hardware, though, such as the eMMC standard which allows flash memory to be used in a more cost-advantageous way than SSDs. For a look at some the finer points of eMMC chips, we’ll turn to [Jason]’s latest project.
[Jason] had a few damaged eMMC storage chips and wanted to try to repair them. The most common failure …read more
“The material value of e-waste alone is worth $62.5 billion, three times more than the annual output of the world’s silver mines and more than the GDP of most countries.” Continue reading The World Economic Forum Tells Davos: Electronics Are ‘the Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in the World’
We all have that friend who brings us their sad busted electronics. In [Leo’s] case, he had a MIDI sequencer from a musician friend. It had a dead display and the manufacturer advised that a driver IC was probably bad, even sending a replacement surface mount part.
[Leo] wasn’t convinced though. He knew that people were always pushing on the switches that were mounted on the board and he speculated that it might just be a bad solder joint. As you can see in the video below, that didn’t prove out.
The next step was to fire up a hot …read more