I'm all for the idea. You know that I like to mostly fix electronic
things as I somehow have a mechanical deficiency..
Anyway I have book that codifies a lot of what I have learned, and
adds some things I didn't, that I would like to share with all
electronics fixers:
"How To Diagnose And Fix Everything Electronic", by Michael Jay Geier
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/192-1610058-4930852?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=%22How+To+Diagnose+And+Fix+Everything+Electronic%22%2C+by+Michael+Jay+Geier
(about $15 at Amazon) -- something that I think useful enough to
add to the Splat*Space library... From the cover:
"Have fun and save money by repairing you own electronics",
"Learn to use test equipment, including the oscilloscope",
"See how an expert pinpoints circuit faults quickly"
Now I need to find a book on fixing small gas engines (like a lawn
mower engine or in my case a power washer and roto-tiller motors)...
- sgh
On 05/09/2012 11:58 PM, Drew wrote:
> I like this as well. Mainly because it'd give me the chance to
> try to fix new and excitingly broken things.
>
> I definitely like the idea of keeping it small to start. That
> lets us build our own fixit capabilities as we go. This whole
> idea reminds me of the way the Durham Bike coop work. Of course
> they only repair and recondition bicycles. I'm curious to know
> how they got rolling (ahem), their website is a bit bare on their
> early details. I'll bother one of their old hands tomorrow at
> their public workshop and see what I can dig up.
>
> On May 9, 10:32 pm, Jeffrey Crews wrote:
>> So how do we position and/or advertise this? Start as a Meetup
>> and see how it goes? Probably not a bad idea; that might keep it
>> small until we figure it out.
>>
>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Dara wrote:
>>> I love this idea. You know that the Charlotte hackerspace does
>>> this with repairing laptops to send to 3rd world countries for
>>> kids to use to learn in school in? Great idea in my book.
>>>
>>> On May 9, 5:20 pm, Jeffrey Crews <
cruze...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hmmm... could go either way, from "OMG these peoples are
>>>> amazing" to a situation where 25 people came in with totally
>>>> unfixable items and were thereby disgruntled. But as a long-time
>>>> scavenger and fixer I would be willing to risk it and put in the
>>>> time.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
>>>>> Perhaps something worth discussing @ SplatSpace? "Repair Cafes"
>>>>> sounds like a pretty interesting idea...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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