You should check out Make Magazine. Their slogan is "If you can't
open it, you don't own it". Here's the Maker's Bill of Rights:
* Meaningful and specific parts lists shall be included.
* Cases shall be easy to open.
* Batteries should be replaceable.
* Special tools are allowed only for darn good reasons.
* Profiting by selling expensive special tools is wrong and not
making special tools available is even worse.
* Torx is OK; tamperproof is rarely OK.
* Components, not entire sub-assemblies, shall be replaceable.
* Consumables, like fuses and filters, shall be easy to access.
* Circuit boards shall be commented.
* Power from USB is good; power from proprietary power adapters is bad.
* Standard connecters shall have pinouts defined.
* If it snaps shut, it shall snap open.
* Screws better than glues.
* Docs and drivers shall have permalinks and shall reside for all
perpetuity at <http://archive.org/>archive.org.
* Ease of repair shall be a design ideal, not an afterthought.
* Metric or standard, not both.
* Schematics shall be included.
Here's the site:
http://makezine.com
-Steve Trovato
strovato at optonline.net
At 12:23 AM 3/1/2011, Jack Brooks wrote:
>It's like the labels on the back of equipment most of us open up to work on
>regularly. "No user serviceable parts inside."
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