NEW VIDEO: Playing Assemble With Care!
Added 2021-12-02 15:59:55 +0000 UTCI played Assemble With Care over the Holidays, and it was such a blast I wanted to share it with everyone. The repair industry is so fascinating and fun, and I really hope people are inspired to repair their own things at home.
Watch the video, and then check out this *Peachy Pair* for further reading! As part of my research, there's so many cool articles and things I want to include in the video but can't due to brevity, so I'm adding them to this mini-blog. I hope you'll enjoy looking through all the materials as much as I have~
How Do LCDs Work?
In Assemble With Care you can repair a gameboy with a broken LCD screen. LCD technology is such an awesome invention and not many people know just how it works, so here's a video that breaks it down more than I did in my video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbdhbyiHX-s
How Does Polaroid Film Work?
Original Polaroid film prints and develops all in one ingenious package, right in the camera! Get these links to learn the history of the Polaroid film AND how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7xKWLsCd8E
Was Early Photography Film Racist?
The history of photography and race is yet another example of how easy a single detail can lead to the complete exclusion of an entire community of people. Read the story below to learn more!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/sarah-lewis-racial-bias-photography.html
The Future of Planned Obsolescence
In "Unauthorized Bread", Cory Doctorow writes a humorous but sobering science fiction set in the near future where people are not allowed to repair their own appliances. Current industry practices, in which products don't work unless they can be "verified" with an internet connection, or built with technology that deliberately degrades itself over time so that new products have to be bought, is the dangerous reality we live in, and the story is a nice reminder of how much we probably don't want the trend to continue.
