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Apple continues to pretend that the touchscreens of thousands of iPhone 6 Plus devices are spontaneously breaking due to an engineering flaw. Continue reading The Hell of Owning an iPhone 6 Plus With ‘Touch Disease’
Thousands upon thousands of iPhone 6 Pluses are spontaneously breaking under normal use and are being replaced with devices that have the same design flaw. Continue reading Apple Is Still Ignoring One of the Biggest iPhone Engineering Flaws of All Time
Oh sure, the thought of owning a happy whirring drill press of your very own is exciting, but have you really thought about it? It’s a big responsibility to welcome any tool into the home, even seemingly simple ones like a drill press. Lubricants, spindle runout, chuck mounts, tramming, and more [Quinn Dunki], of no small fame, helps us understand what it needs for happy intergration into its new workshop.
[Quin] covers her own drill press adventure from the first moments it was borne into her garage from the back of a truck to its final installation. She chose one …read more
Continue reading Likely Everything You Need To Know Before Adopting A Drill Press
Nespresso is a variant of disposable single serve coffee pods with an extensive, expensive, and proprietary accessory line. After selling inconvenient bits of his soul for convenience and, admittedly, fairly tasty shots of coffee, [Chriss Lott] was predictably betrayed by his Nespresso Jura coffee machine.
Rather than simply exchange more local currency for a replacement revenue guarantee for the Nestle conglomerate, he did what any self-respecting hacker would do and tried to fix it himself. Unfortunately he quickly found their cunningly oval shaped security screws to be more trouble than his time was worth. He listed his remaining coffee pods …read more
Continue reading The Most Traveled Security Screwdriver, A Hacker’s Tale
After 29 years in business, Tekserve’s old employees and most loyal customers said goodbye with an old-fashioned auction. Continue reading A Funeral for Tekserve, New York City’s Most Iconic Computer Repair Shop
[Matthew D’Asaro] was recently entrusted with an entire classroom fleet of fourteen broken Tektronix TLA5202 logic analyzers — a pile of equipment that once was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. His task: Fixing them. He fixed them all, and on the way documented a number of common failure points in these old but still great devices.
[Matthew] found that Tektronix’s portion of the electronics took the ravages of time and classroom use quite well, only the embedded desktop PCs inside the machines simply weren’t built for the ten-year. Some of the hard-drives had to be replaced, but most units …read more
Continue reading Repairing 14 Tektronix TLA5202 Logic Analyzers
[Drygol] found himself with six Commodore 64’s in various states of disrepair. Because batch work is often more efficient, he detailed the process of restoring all of them in parallel in this one-, two-, three-part series.
The first step was to whiten the cases. Old cases turn yellow from the degradation of the fire retardant additives in the plastic. The proven method to fix this is with a paste called Retr0bright. [Drygol] used hair bleaching paste which is very similar. The cases came out nicely whitened from their treatment.
Next he repaired the keyboard PCB and whitened the keys as …read more
Tamper resistant stickers that prevent consumers from opening their electronics violate federal law. Continue reading The Xbox One S Still Uses Microsoft’s Illegal Warranty-Void-if-Removed Sticker
If the [realjohnnybravo] is the one from the show, it appears he finally managed to get a girlfriend, marry her, and produce at least one son. As the old schoolyard rhyme goes, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes filling the whole *!$&# backyard with brightly colored plastic garbage. One of these items, a Power Wheels quad bike, suffered a blow from planned obsolescence leaving behind a traumatized child. [realjohnnybravo] decided to fix it.
He made frequent mention of how one could go to a store and purchase replacement gears for the toy. Perhaps it’s a German thing. Regardless, …read more
It’s illegal for Sony, Apple, Microsoft, and others to void a warranty just because you repaired your electronics yourself. Continue reading How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law
