Repair Stories Tinkering Teen Repairs SWAT Robot for Police Meet Dallas-area teen Adrian Mayberry. Until recently, he was just a regular kid who liked to tinker with robots. Now, he's the Duncanville Police Department's personal repair whiz kid—after he… January 25, 2016 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories Rescue Your Trapped Tunes from a Dead iPod Old playlists are instant time capsules. Rediscovering an old playlist is like digging into the sedimentary layers of your past—an emotional excavation, track by track. Ah yes, that’s what it… November 5, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories This MacBook Pro Comes Apart and Goes Back Together Again in 2 Minutes In this week’s episode of “Our Community Is Cool as Hell,” check out the time-lapse video that iFixit member "Bexoro" (aka Ben Orozco) made of his MacBook Pro repair. Ben… September 21, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories An Ode to Rick Astley and iPhone Battery Replacements Drained batteries are a drag. Drained batteries on an iPhone—especially when it won’t hold a charge for more than a couple of hours—is a super-mucho-grande drag. Dan Delany, a New… September 17, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories Fan Repair: So Easy These Gradeschoolers Can Do It There are two things we keep telling people about repair. (1) It’s probably easier than you think. (2) If it’s already broken and destined for the trash, you really have… September 14, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories Wilderness Wear and Boot Repair My boots have been through a lot—weekend hikes, snowshoeing in high country, and dozens of backpacking trips. And it looked like they’d hiked their last. I feel like I owe… August 4, 2015 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit
Repair Stories The Saddest Repair Story You’ve Ever Heard Sixteen years ago, Sony released the first Aibo—an adorably lifelike robot dog. Just like real dogs, Aibo responded to commands, played fetch, did tricks, interacted with owners, and had its… July 9, 2015 by Julia Bluff
Repair Stories Smashed, Shorted, and Soldered: How I Got My Broken Drone Airborne Again I love my Hubsan X4 107L—a 30-gram micro-quadcopter that is supposedly built to take all the abuse you can throw at it. But a series of bad crashes left my… March 30, 2015 by Evan Noronha
Repair Stories I Lived With a Broken Screen on my iPhone 5S—Then Fixed It Myself I teach people how to repair things for a living, so I know better than most that things break. Often catastrophically. I just didn’t think it would happen to me.… March 5, 2015 by Miro Djuric
Repair Stories How NASA Makes Old Things New Again to Solve the Mysteries of the Universe You can’t miss the engineering marvels when you walk into the hangar at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. When I was at the facility, I saw various vintages of aircraft… March 3, 2015 by Brittany McCrigler - iFixit