Repair Stories Learning Arduino Kung Fu When a postal truck arrives at the iFixit office with a delivery, we don’t even have to get up. All we have to do is tell our garage door robot,… April 11, 2012 by Alexander Jansen
Repair Stories Making a Motorcycle Talk: A Story of Motorcycle Repair From Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work: "Seeing a motorcycle about to leave my shop under its own power, several days after arriving… April 10, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Tools The Hand Tool Shortage That Stalled WWII I wouldn't have thought that the powerful Allied forces could have been stalled by a lack of wrenches and hammers—just as I wouldn't have expected that American soldiers in Iraq… April 9, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Recycling Let No Good Part Go to Waste I found this bike leaning against a wall in Kisumu, Kenya, which is a port city on Lake Victoria at the south-west corner of the country. The bike is welded… April 8, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Repair Stories It’s Important to Have a Back-Up Option I took this photo in Seelampur, after exploring the second-hand electronics market and watching some e-waste processing. In Delhi, I saw fixers turning almost any space into a repair space.… April 7, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Repair Stories Fixing My Daughter’s Voice: An Important Battery Replacement Nate Hanson's 8-year-old daughter, Whitney, has an iPhone 3GS. But she doesn't use it to call her friends or play video games, as you might expect. Rather, for Whitney, the… April 6, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
How To Repair is Green: Two Simple iPhone Repairs You Can Do at Home If you bought an iPhone 4 when it came out on June 24, 2010, you've had it for 21 months now. But maybe you're not ready to upgrade. Maybe you… April 5, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Wallpapers X-Ray Vision: Now On Your iPhone 4S! We x-rayed an iPhone 4S—and now you can download the resulting image as an iPhone 4/4S wallpaper. If you pair it with a transparent rear panel, you'll be able see… April 3, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design New York Times Pimps iPhone Mods In a New York Times article today, Jenna Wortham discusses a variety of ways that tinkerers are making their iPhones stand out in a sea of identical devices, including some… April 2, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Tools New iPad Opening Tool We’ve been searching high and low for a better way to get inside the iPad. Our current method requires industrial strength suction cups, a heavy-duty 1500 watt heat gun, a… April 1, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit