6 stories tagged electronics-repair, newest first.
200 points by surprisetalk | 114 comments
Julia Evans blog post about repairing ten-year-old rechargeable bike lights by replacing their worn-out battery with a soldering iron at a makerspace.
488 points by zdw | 220 comments
Blog post investigating whether Apple installed a capacitor backwards at the factory in the Macintosh LC III and Performa 450-467, analyzing the circuit.
449 points by miles | 84 comments
Blog post by Doug Brown describing diagnosing and repairing a broken Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device, including firmware reverse engineering with Ghidra.
1841 points by ranebo | 461 comments
Blog post about repairing an Advantage Air eZone air conditioning control tablet yourself instead of paying $1697 to replace the whole system.
468 points by uSoldering | 96 comments
A project page describing reverse-engineering a Nintendo Switch Lite PCB with 1,917 wires to produce a donationware boardview and high-resolution board scans.
500 points by toomuchtodo | 275 comments
Grist article reporting that Microsoft quietly supported right-to-repair legislation and explaining why that matters for device repairability.