Wiki

• The Art of Trouble Shooting book combines theory and practice, you’ll gain insight into the principles that underlie the diagnosis and repair of all machines.

• Battery University is a free educational website that offers hands-on battery information to engineers, educators, media, students and battery users alike.

• Camera Repair Flickr Pool is a pool on Flickr with photos of camera designs, including digital cameras.

• Electroboom! makes safety fun(ny) – definitely DO NOT try this at home.

• Electronics Repair presents tips and guides by Jestine Yong to repair load of electronics products.

• Fixit Club consists of simple instructions and tips on troubleshooting and repairing household things that break by best-selling “How Does it Work?” author Dan Ramsey.

• FixYa is building a crowdsourced database of help queries and personalised answers.

• Future proof: Tim’s laptop service manuals is a collection of professional, official documents published by the various laptop makers, either for their own technicians or for the use of the general public.

• iFixit makes it easy to fix things with online step-by-step repair guides, troubleshooting tips, and a thriving community of repair technicians who want to help.

• Lowend Mac proposes we use “Apple gear as long as it helps you remain productive and meets your needs, upgrading only as necessary” and helps maintain and use older kit for longer.

• Powerbook Medic is an online library of repair videos mostly of Apple products.

• Raising the dead: Can a regular person repair a damaged hard drive? is a very interesting article, debunking some of the myths on repairing hard drives. Also check the comments streams on this on Slashdot article.

• Reddit’s Computer Technicians is for people who are repair professionals or aspire to be. “End users” are encouraged to use /r/techsupport

• Repairs Universe video library has a growing number of videos of smartphone and tablet repairs and teardowns.

• sci.electronics.repair FAQ is a comprehensive historical archive of tips and guides on repairing many kinds of consumer electronics.