iFixit

iFixit is a repair company and a free repair manual, built on the idea that products should be fixable. It was founded in 2003 by Kyle Wiens and Luke Soules, who were fixing a broken iBook G3 in a dorm room at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California, with no instructions to follow; they began harvesting parts from broken laptops, selling them online and writing the manuals they had been missing.

Today it pairs thousands of step-by-step guides, vetted by an in-house team, with tested replacement parts, precision tools designed in-house and a 25-year guarantee, plus an Answers Forum where fixers help each other. Its teardowns and repairability scores measure how easily electronics can be opened and mended, and it campaigns for Right to Repair with repair.org, repair.eu, PIRG and EFF, working from offices in California and Tennessee.