Collaborate Disseminate
“The goal is to intimidate consumers and repair organizations and deceive them into thinking that that a warranty is void if anybody other than Microsoft opens up the box.” Continue reading Microsoft Is Being Sued Over the Xbox One’s Warranty-Void-if-Removed Sticker
You should probably hope you haven’t seen [Techmoan’s] cassette recorder before. That’s because it is a Neal interview recorder that was mainly used by police to tape interrogations. This one was apparently used by the Royal Navy and was sold for parts. Turns out, the repair was simple, but the teardown and the analysis of the machine — you can see it in the video below — is pretty interesting if you’ve never seen one of these before.
The unit looks like a heavy-duty piece of industrial electronics from the 1980s. Unlike a commercial tape deck, this one is made …read more
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