A bi-weekly talk show by The Restart Project, plus a monthly documentary series produced by brilliant podcaster Dave Pickering, based on fixing triumphs, heartbreaks and wisdom shared at our community repair events – called Restart Parties – here in London. We go into real depth about good and bad design, obstacles to repair of electronics, emotional aspects of ownership, environmentally irresponsible business models, and the “end of life” of our gadgets. This podcast is for you if you'd like to fix your relationship with electronics. Let’s rethink, restart.
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Restart Podcast Ep 8: Tools, new and old
In this episode, we talk tools – how do we actually get into electrical appliances or miniaturised electronic gadgets, many of which are designed to keep us out?
Podcaster Dave Pickering accompanies a couple of repairs at the Abbey Community Centre in Kilburn, including a mobile repair and vacuum repair.
To get insight into the bigger picture, Dave interviews repair guru Kyle Wiens, founder of iFixit, a company that is fast becoming a living “repair manual for everything”. iFixit supplies specialist repair tools, a task which takes them frequently to China and always into the innards of the latest electronics.
We learn that while tools can be very specialist and ever-changing like screwdriver bits, but they can also be quite simple, like an old, cut-up credit card.
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