THE MAKER'S BILL OF RIGHTS (from Makezine.com) /THE RIGHT TO REPAIR

This bill of rights published by Makezine is a manifesto for designers and engineers who want to create technology that is accessible to the average person with a willingness to get involved in maintaining and repairing electronic technology.  This is a positive contribution to sustainability and the creation of a circular economy.

Some companies have come into existence purely to serve the electronic items home repair market.

One of these is IFIXIT which sells specialist tools, kits, and parts, and has a range of step-by-step teardown, repair, and reassemble tutorials.

Other places to help you fix your own stuff include...

• iFlash (ipod hard drive to SSD replacement) 
• SOSAV
• Powerbookmedic
• Wikihow
• and everyone's favourite tutorial source : YOUTUBE

Use the manifesto to analyse and re-design an existing product.

Then start to apply those principles in your own design work.

"Steve Wozniak co-founder of Apple, backs Right to Repair movement"

(More on the 'Right to Repair Law' from the BBC, 2021: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56340077 )

All too often technology has become so specialised and miniaturised to a point where most people are made impotent in the face of the failure of their product: Up util the early 2000,s many car owners were quite capable of fixing their car when it broke down, or stereo owners could order spare parts and replace broken items without help, but now products (like any smartphone) are designed to require highly trained specialists to repair damaged items. (This does not need to be the case - look at the Fairphone for instance)