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  • Smartphones – the BitFIXit take: Part 1 (Introducing the project)

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    Ah, smartphones. Most of us have at least one of these devices. We use them for all kinds of tasks during everyday use. Banking and contactless payments, keeping in touch with friends and loved ones. Catching up on the latest news and social media feeds. Playing games, listening to music and watching TV shows and…

  • Our media centre build: some good and bad news…

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    Hello again, readers and fellow fixers! Now, we admit that we placed our media centre build on the back burner. Since the last time we covered the project, we were busy with a lot of repair jobs. Gareth’s founding of Reyt Repair brought our BitFIXit repair cafes together as combined Saturday sessions. As a result,…

  • Introducing Reyt Repair!

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    Hello again, fellow readers and fixers! We have some exciting news to share with you today. Gareth is launching Reyt Repair, a new social enterprise on Wednesday 19th October! Enter Reyt Repair It aims to fix a broad range of everyday items, such as clothes, furniture and electricals. Volunteers will run workshop sessions from 10am…

  • The three kinds of people in the world [NSFW]

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    Hello again, fellow readers and fixers! Now then, here’s a different take on our usual articles – the three kinds of people in the world. People often talk about what these are when referring to all kinds of topics. Whether it’s about business & office culture, psychology, or just life’s lessons in general. So how,…

  • Our media centre build: the cooling conundrum

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    Hello again, fellow readers and fixers! Since the previous part, we looked again at implementing a cooling solution for our media centre build project. We intended to reuse one of the fans I salvaged from some old laptops as an exhaust fan. However, a problem enters… Why not use a laptop fan for our media…

  • We’re in the Burngreave Messenger!

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    Hello fellow readers and fixers! Last week, we celebrated 18 years of fixing computers for local communities. Through our work over the years, we’ve kept people digitally connected with each other. This is more important than ever before, as people rely on the internet for all kinds of things. Whether it’s for entertainment, buying goods,…

  • My journey to being a BitFIXiteer

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    Hello again fellow readers and fixers! Now, this will be different from the usual posts about computer stuff. Over the years, I’ve written about different ways to fix and reuse various tech gadgets and computers. I have aimed to educate and inform readers about how we tried to find new ways to reuse various parts.…

  • Re-exploring the idea of making snack makers using old parts…

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    Hello again, fellow readers and fixers! We had a light bulb moment in our heads recently. There’s one thing that we’re keen on doing, and that’s revisiting an old repurpose idea from a few years ago. We originally explored the idea of using old parts from computers and peripherals to make different snack makers. There…

  • We’re back online!

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    Hello fellow readers and fixers! We are glad to reconnect with the web again, after some gremlins knocked us offline a little while ago. We’re in the process of rebuilding the new website, and we will share more interesting ideas and news along the way. In the meantime, we’re still busy fixing problems with computers,…