Site News We’ve Expanded Our Ventilator Project For the last three weeks, we have been crowdsourcing thousands of repair documents for hundreds of ventilator models. These machines are critical in the fight against COVID-19 but they’re breaking—or… April 10, 2020 by Olivia Webb
Tech News Dark Magic: What Caused Google’s Nexus 6P Death Loop (and How to Fix It With a Hairdryer) My friend’s Nexus 6P died while acting as navigator and DJ on a road trip from upstate New York to Manhattan in February 2017. The 6P froze, rebooted, displayed the… April 9, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Opinion Enough Is Enough: A Few Ways to Buy Less, Fix More, and Avoid Stress Note: This is a guest post by Russell Graves, who writes about his computer, electrical, and other projects at Syonyk’s Project Blog. We thought this edited version of his essay,… April 7, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Video Replacing the Battery in a MacBook Pro Unibody (2009-2012) in 5 Minutes! April 2, 2020 by Michael Degnan
iFixit Fix Your Own Drifting Joy-Con While Nintendo’s Repairs are Closed What a horrible time to have a Joy-Con curse. I refer, of course, to the curse of having the analog controller on your Nintendo Switch suddenly start drifting, at such… April 2, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Brain Candy Animal Crossing Has the Right to Repair, Why Don’t We? With everyone sheltering in place amidst an ever-changing pandemic, Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a welcome escape. But it’s not just the friendly villagers (a respite from social distancing)… April 1, 2020 by Sam Goldheart - iFixit
iFixit Join the #FixAtHome Challenge Feeling lonely, bored, or downright discouraged about being stuck inside? Us too. But we’re working to fix the isolation blues by repairing, making, or building something, and encouraging others to… March 31, 2020 by Dorothea Kessler - iFixit
Right to Repair Repair Is Essential, Now and Always Repair is essential. Before COVID-19 overtook the world, this was more of a rallying cry than a policy up for debate. But as governments big and small shut down more… March 31, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Tech News 12.9” iPad Pro 2020 Teardown: What does the LiDAR scanner look like? March 28, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Fixers Android, Serial Numbers, and China: Board Repair School, Part 3 Four days into my one-week crash course in board repair and microsoldering, I still had big questions. I’d learned a lot about diagnosing boards and reading schematics, and been through… March 27, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
