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Our Top Fixes of 2012: #4 – Clean Your Fan, Mate!
A whole lot of dust inside a 6-year-old Macbook! Janet’s laptop has been a source of inspiration for The Restart Project. Months before planning the first event, we were already “restarting” her old...
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Our Top Fixes of 2012: #3 – Beware of the “Genius”
Barti, Adrian and Janet in the middle of troubleshooting Barti brought her MacBook Pro with a “dead screen” to a Restart Party. We troubleshooted her computer and figured that the problem was actually...
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Our Top Fixes of 2012: #2 – Repair and Reuse Before Recycling
Laurence, Ben and the dvd player Laurence came to our first Restart Party in Brixton, the one we defined as our “Midas moment”, as everything we touched…miraculously got fixed. Laurence’s Matsui 225...
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Our Top Fixes of 2012: #1 – Epson, We Have a Problem!
Original photo by Flickr user Newtown graffiti And the winner is… It might appear as cheating that we decided to pick the case of the infamous Epson Stylus D68, which we already wrote about back in...
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Make, Do, and Make Do!
We had a great time fixing in the midst of a Good For Nothing event on Saturday. It was one of the first times we were repairing in the middle of another event – the Good For Nothing network of...
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Repair Rickshaw Concept
Photo remixed from Flickr user sarahandiain on CC license Since we got started, we have been interested in bringing repair back into public spaces and getting people engaged in a hands-on way. This...
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Has Tech Ever Broken Your Heart?
UPDATE: see the results of our online “therapy” at the end of this post! Have you ever brought home a new gadget which you had high expectations for, and it then broke your heart? Or did your...
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Training, and saving laptops
We had our first, more formal training this week, at the invite of Brent Libraries. Our Restarters worked with 10 people who had signed up for our “Speed Up Your Laptop” training. Many of the people –...
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We’re official!
As of Monday we are an official legal entity! For the past nine months, we were an informal project running on fire-in-the-belly, one small grant, good will and lots of help from our friends. While we...
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We are looking for a someone with spark to come work with us – you will be joining a lean (but not mean!) team of two. We need a volunteer fundraiser to help us for a minimum of three months, sending...
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A day at the Market
We had a fun, blustery day at Brixton Market – our first – on Easter Saturday. We have been keen to pop-up in a market, to promote repair “elsewhere”. Our idea is not to take business away from local...
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Interest from international media
AFP produced this video piece on The Restart Project, including interviews with Ugo and Janet, and starring some of our favourite Restarters. Please let us know if you spot this on TV, we are not big...
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Prototype with us
Used on CC license from Flickr user celinecelines This Friday, we will pitch our platform to the Urban Prototyping Hackathon at Imperial College. The themes of the UPLondon Festival really resonate...
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Introducing: #repairables, prototype for our online platform
Last weekend we took part in UP London’s Hackathon at Imperial College, focused on the theme of resilience in urban environments. It was a great opportunity for us to start working on our future...
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People who restart
This post appeared first as a guest post on the RSA’s The Great Recovery blog. Ten months into our activity, we have stopped more than once to pinch ourselves. Last year, when we started throwing...
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Support us through Ebay-Patagonia auction
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been chosen to receive proceeds from the online auction connected to the launch of the Ebay and Patagonia Common Threads partnership in the UK. Common Threads is...
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One year, one electronic polar bear
We’re celebrating our first birthday today with friends and supporters. We have to pinch ourselves when we realise that we have thrown 27 Restart Parties in the past year, involving and empowering over...
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Help us scale!
We need to help mobilise a global network of Restarters, and we need your help to achieve this. We have worked tirelessly alongside our dayjobs and degrees to give life to The Restart Project because...
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A big thank you
Just a quick post to thank people for all of the messages of support, donations and other morale boosts we have received over recent weeks. Especially since the excellent BBC Tech coverage, which was...
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September Workshop: Start your own Restart Party!
You have contacted us from all over the UK and well beyond. Some of you have plenty of repair skills you want to share. Others love the concept and would like to see it happening nearby. We have...
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