#repairing

[futurebird]

Right to Repair Therapy

For me, right to to repair isn't just about ewaste, and preventing corporate gouging.

It's about mental health. Being able to fix your gadgets is therapeutic. Empowering. Good for the soul.

Today I fixed my expensive bluetooth earbuds. Their batteries couldn't hold a charge for a full hour. (Turns out this was due to a botched firmware update and totally Sony's fault!)

This is the guide I used:

We tried a course of new firmware but the patients continued to deteriorate (as the specialist predicted.) Surgical intervention was unavoidable. The patients are currently convalescing in the charging dock. The procedure was smooth and they will only have minor scars, but a full recovery cannot be guaranteed until they reach full power and take one last course of software updates.

Surgery was successful. The seams won’t be the same ever. But it’s only noticeable if I look for it.

In a world full of complex technology it's easy to feel small and helpless. And maybe I'm too much of an idealist, but I think that if everyone could experience the joy of fixing or modifying a gadget now and then we'd all be a little more open minded, a little more daring. A little harder to push around.

#repairing #right to repair #repair therapy #electronics #gadgets #bluetooth #ear buds #sony #bad firmware #firmware update

[stclements]

#sewing #embroidery #sashiko embroidery #visible mending #repairing #upcycling

[foxfangshiddensmiles]

I've been doing projects!!!!!!!

He is A Frog and I still need to name him please please send ideas

And then the outside and inside of my patch job step 1

#embroidery #patching #fiber arts #crafting #repairing #fox talks

[soulinkpoetry]

Societies that still value broken things, see beauty in every fracture. Every fracture shows promise and tenacity to become something beautiful again. Even more beautiful than it once was.

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Reposting due to a grammatical error caught by @sexygrammaticalerrors Thank you 🙏 I agree that grammar is important and an error can ruin a good quote.

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#kintsugi #repairing #broken #beautiful again #valuable #soulinkpoetry #poetry #thoughts #she writes #feelings #poets on tumblr #writers and poets #poets corner #poets community

[yleniasupercursi]

I had to mend my jeans after a ridiculous fall - now they're my favourite!

#mending #repairing #patch #mended jeans #ripped jeans

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #8570

  Repairing the damage that I’ve done to myself.– Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.)

#sad #help #hope #reason to live #depressed #depression #empty #alone #mental illness #anxiety #trauma #guest submission #mental health #repair #repairing #damage #healing #heal #progress #strength #goals

[fastwiemagie]

Fixing my recently thrifted artsy bag

I've thrifted this bag during end of summer sale at my local thrift store. It gives me artsy vibes and is just cheerful!

When I brought it home I realized one of the straps was about to snap off. I cut down a piece of pleather to hotglue it to the faulty spot as a first brace and then stitched a scrap piece of what might be real leather (not sure to be honest) over the strap with button hole thread. While I was at it I also fixed the strap of the closure toggle, which also was looking kind of wonky and in need of repair. I braided some cotton yarn for more strength and tied on the wooden toggle anew. (I've realised after taking the pictures that I need to shift the wooden toggle sideways, but oh well. Not taking new pictures now. Just imagine.)

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Picture 1 shows the before status of the thrifted bag. It's woven from strong threads and striped in red and blue/turquoise colours (with other thread colours intermixed). The long tan straps and closure flap are made of leather and there's a wooden closure toggle as well. The bag gives an artsy and cosy summer vibe!

Picture 2: Shows a close-up of a very frayed tan leather strap that's about to snap soon!

Picture 3: A collection piece of the old belt buckle I've cut a strip of for the leather brace, some middle brown leather scraps that cover the fraying scrap, my heavy-duty sewing shears and a little white hot glue gun (which is responsible for the newspaper background, in order to protect my table from hot glue).

Picture 4, 5 and 6: Are close-ups of the pleather brace I've attached to the fraying strap and from the leather scrap I've cut to size and stitched over the fraying strap to support it. I've folded down the edges of this scrap cover to make it look more refined and stylish.

Picture 7-9: Show a before picture of the wooden closure toggle being hold by a wonky looking bad, which I replaced with a sand-coloured cotton yarn braid.

Picture 10: The "after" picture of my repaired thrifted bag! Hanging confidently once more and with a pretty new cotton yarn braid to hold the wooden closure toggle.

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#diy or die #repair your clothes #repair your bags #repair your stuff #sustainability #hope punk #repairing #quick fixes

[weheartstims]

Flowers, breaking and/or repairing ceramics or similar things if you can find that? For Dandelions (oc story, can't provide art cuz I haven't finished the cover yet)

Dandelions (OC story) with flowers and ceramics!

🌼|🏺|🌼 🏺|🌼|🏺 🌼|🏺|🌼

#weheartstims #stimboard #original story #dandelion #dandelions #flowers #yellow #hands #ceramics #pottery #breaking #shattering #repairing

[wastelesscrafts]

So my sister was trying to throw this back pack away, but it really is a good backpack

The only bad thing was that the cloth that covers the inside was tearing

On the bottom and top of backpack, but I already had hem stitched the top when I remembered to take the picture

The cloth is still in good condition, no need to replace it, just hem stitching did the trick

And now I have a mostly new backpack

[ID: three different views of the brown lining of a backpack in progress of being mended with purple thread.]

Backpacks and mending

Good job on saving that backpack! That stitching looks well done. :)

When someone has no experience with mending, it can be really difficult to distinguish minor issues from irreparable damage. It might not even occur to them that something can be mended. A lot of us are taught to just toss something when it breaks and get a new one, after all.

I have very little experience with fixing electronics, for example: when something breaks down, my first instinct is to assume it's irreparable because I've always been told that electronics have complex inner workings that a layman could never understand. It was only after a friend of mine took the time to open up my desktop computer to show me why my PC was having trouble and how to fix it that I realised 1) electronics aren't as scary as they look, and 2) if something's broken and out of warranty anyway, you might as well open it up and see what's going on inside (while taking the necessary safety precautions, of course).

This incident has given me the courage to at least try and see what can be done when something stops working. I highly doubt I'll ever be an expert at fixing electronics, but at the very least I've been able to save some items by simply opening them up and dusting them out.

It's also given me more sympathy for people who toss their clothes out because of something as simple as a missing button. If you've never seen how clothes are made, you simply don't know sewing that button back on only takes a few minutes. Just like how I didn't know my PC's motherboard has a battery, let alone how to replace it.

So, it's great you took the time to show your sister that her backpack could be mended! Not only did you get a new backpack out of it, but you've also introduced your sister to the notion of mending. Maybe next time something rips, she'll take a moment to consider whether it can be fixed or not before throwing it out.

#wasteless crafts #ask #backpack #diy #mending #repairing #zero waste #reduce reuse recycle #community

[postcard-from-the-past]

Repairing and tarring a fishing boat on the shores of Berck, Picardy region of northern France

French vintage postcard

#vintage #northern #repairing #tarjeta #france #old #berck #tarring #fishing #briefkaart #postcard #photography #region #boat #postal #carte postale #sepia #ephemera #historic #french #ansichtskarte #postkarte #shores #picardy #postkaart #photo

[senkaede]

#ceramics #kintsugi #photography #restoring #repairing #器修復 #繕う #金継ぎ #陶器

[mesterspets]

A bit of visible mending on this fine Wednesday afternoon.

#my post #mending #visible mending #reusereducerecycle #reducereuserecycle #sustainability #sustainable #hand sewing #sewing #repairing #caring for clothes #textile maintenance

[etincelleart]

Day 4 - Repairing Each Other #NNDWeek2022 @nuts-and-dolts-week  TW : Blood Consider that Penny is human no matter what (I stick with it, it's my little AU after what happened during V8 aha), and it also has some inconvenients-

#NNDWeek2022 #rwby #art #pennypolendina #rubyrose #ruby #penny #repairing #blood #watercolors #penny polendina #ruby rose #nuts and dolts

[yleniasupercursi]

These tiny holes won't stop, neither will my willing to repair what can and must be repaired.

#visible mending #mending #lazy daisy #hand embroidery #repairing #zerowaste

[viagginterstellari]

Tonle Sap, 2015

#travel #cambodia #cambodge #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #b&w photography #street photography #street life #monochrome photography #street shop #repairing #motorcycle

[donttouchmylasagna]

Chill time repairing a car.

#feraligatr #charizard #pokemon #pokesona #art #digital art #furry #furry art #furry fandom #furry anthro #commission #car #mechanic #repairing #fursona