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.
https://therestartproject.org/podcast/
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 5 days 23 hours 41 minutes
Restart Radio: Young people and future product design
Restarters Ben and Faraz had a busy week, starting with a session inspiring engineering students and ending with fixing toys with kids in a mini Makerfaire.
Restart Podcast Ep 11: A Screen Repair Odyssey
How hard could one screen repair be? When Ugo dropped his (unprotected!) Sony Experia mobile in April, little did he know, he was about to find out... After disappointments with professionals, a frustrating DIY repair ensued.
Restart Radio: Keeping a green and quality kitchen
Our special guest, chef Ian Riley, shared his tips this week on how to select, buy and maintain appliances for the kitchen. He urged us to carefully consider what we need, and if we love to cook, invest and show reverence for the appliances we own.
Restart Radio: Repair as a sensory experience
We go on a sensory journey with Restarter Ben Skidmore, explaining how senses of hearing, smell, touch, sight, and even taste are used in troubleshooting and repairing electronics and electricals.
Restart Radio: New drives extend lives of computers and gadgets
Solid state drives are very affordable now, and can make a five year old laptop feel like new again. We discuss the quiet revolution in data storage that can extend the lives of legions of computers, laptops and gadgets with older hard drives.
Restart Radio: The “Red Ring of Death” and new repair businesses
We discussed the elaborate repair of an iconic fault in a popular game console, and the online businesses the fault created. Plus other post-brick-and-mortar repair businesses, like a pop-up business in New York.
Restart Radio: selling and buying secondhand electronics
Sometimes the best option to keep a gadget in use for longer is to find it a new owner. Or, instead of buying new, to buy somebody else's gadget. Yet you won't hear much about this in our upgrade culture.
Restart Podcast Ep 10: Getting “closure”, saying goodbye to gadgets
We talk with Restart Party goers and with designer Joe Macleod about the end, or what he calls "closure experiences". Why does moving on from a mobile sometimes feel like a break up? And then what about stuff we toss with no regrets?
Restart Radio: Unpacking Marie Kondo, reflecting on decluttering
We talked about Japanese "decluttering" guru Marie Kondo's best-selling book. While Kondo's approach could provoke people to value and love the things the own more, it also could simply work in service of a throw-away economy.
Restart Radio: guitars, cloud kill switches and bots
Restarter Ben talked to us about how musicians often learn to repair, hack and modify guitars and instruments. Then we end the show with a special cloud kill switch and bot bonus!