Fixers Jalopnik’s David Tracy: What’s In Your Toolbox? This is What’s In Your Toolbox?, an occasional post series where we showcase tools and tips from our favorite fixers. Have you ever loved an object that does nothing but… December 5, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
Fixers Lazy Game Reviews: What’s In Your Toolbox? This is What’s In Your Toolbox?, an occasional post series where we showcase tools and tips from our favorite fixers. Clint Basinger walks into his local Goodwill, camera in hand.… November 12, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
Tech News Five Ways to Fix, Patch, and Mend Your Favorite Clothes Some people have a strict mental hierarchy of Things You Can Fix and Things You Cannot Imagine Fixing. Me, I get hung up on clothing. When I encounter a rip… August 15, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
Repair Stories The 10 Things Likely to Go Wrong When Fixing a Phone or Laptop Taking apart a device for the first time is frightening. Even with one of our handy repair guides available, you might feel like you’re going to break something, it will… July 23, 2019 by Kevin Purdy
Repair Stories Repair Cured My Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day I slept through my alarm—okay, I slept through all five of them. When I finally woke up and realized that I was supposed to be at work five minutes ago,… May 29, 2019 by Kay Kay Clapp
Repair Stories If You Can Repair a Phone, You Can Repair a Fridge “Dryers aren’t all that different than phones,” I say to the phone repair techs riding in the truck with me. They’re nervous. A few weeks ago, I fired off a… April 22, 2019 by Matt Zieminski - iFixit
Repair Stories Camera Repair in the Film Industry Watch our interview with co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival Cirina Catania at iFixit.org/blog. March 11, 2019 by Kelsea Weber
Repair Stories What a Starbucks Barista Machine Taught Me About Ownership A few years ago, I learned an interesting lesson from an unexpected object. In the United States, Starbucks sells an espresso machine called ‘Barista.’ It is designed to perform the… October 1, 2018 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Repair Stories Lit by Love: The Volunteers Restoring Point San Luis Lighthouse On a beautiful, sunny afternoon, some friends and I took a walk along California’s Central Coast. The quiet was broken only by cawing seagulls, crashing ocean waves, and the distant… August 27, 2018 by Kristen Gismondi - iFixit
Repair Stories Don’t Buy a New Laptop—Replace Your MacBook Battery Instead So, your trusty old MacBook isn’t quite what it used to be. Maybe the trackpad has slowed down a few paces—or maybe the battery is so swollen that it’s broken… April 9, 2018 by Elise Barsch - iFixit