Andrew Goldberg, Technical Writer After a brief stint in Marine Engineering at Cal Maritime, where he tinkered with big diesel engines and visited South America on the Training Ship Golden Bear, Andrew studied General Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. While there, he was quickly absorbed by his studies in Mechatronics, a multidisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on the combination of several kinds of engineering to design awesome systems. Currently, Andrew is one of the lead Technical Writers at iFixit and a key producer of their renowned Device Teardowns.

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• iFixit: Who we are, what we do, and the
importance of repair.
• Galaxy S4 Teardown: A look inside and out
at their Samsung’s newest flagship
smartphone.
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Where are we going?

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Online Platform for
Creating &
Distributing Visual
Instructions &
Capturing Data

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‣ Marketing / BD / Hats Upon Hats!
‣ I spend most of my time encouraging people
to take things apart & convincing companies
to make it easier for them to do so.
‣ I like building & rebuilding things: ask me how
to fix your sink or remodel your kitchen.
WHO’S THIS
GUY?

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We’re From here
“Happiest
town in
america”-Oprah

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We Wrote...
six laptop repair manuals.

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Gorgeous,
Glossy photo
manuals...
just 15 dollars each.

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...
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back-up plan:
put the content online for free

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Our web traffic
exploded

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Today, iFIXIT.com hosts repair
manuals numbering in the
THOUSAND
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• We are building an online community of
people sharing repair know-how.
• We will make it :
EASY for anyone to share repair
knowledge
SIMPLE for people to fix their devices
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repair 1.0

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1990:
how to be
a mechan
Figure it out
Repair manuals
Trade school

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2013:
how to be
a mechan
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repair 2.0
Learn from the world

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millions
of people use iFIXIT to fix
their own things

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Umbrellas!
Umbrella repair in India.

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Earl kaplan
Fixing PCs for kids.

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REPAIR
ANYWHERE

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Now people can follow along
in the field

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Electronics go
everywhere.
Repair manuals should, too.

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Our manuals are
open source
and free.

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in 2005, the u.s.
buried electronics
containing:‣ 77 million pounds of lead
‣ 183 thousand pounds of mercury
‣ 1.3 million pounds of arsenic

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Reduce, Reuse,
repair. Then recycle.

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Fix the world
We can fix anything.

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So, we like
devices...
a lot.
a lot, a lot.

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iphone 5
Disassembled

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luke FTW

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Tools of the trade
‣ Pro Tech Toolkit
‣ Lots of bits (just in case)
‣ Precision tweezers
‣ Loads of prying tools
‣ And of course, The Spudger
‣ Magnetic Mat
‣ Dry erase grid keeps track of screws
‣ Strong magnetic backing keeps them in place

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ChipSiP CT49248NS962D1 Gb NAND flash + 4
Gb DDR3 SDRAMAmbarella A770 camera
system-on-a-chipAMS AS3713 system PMU with
backlight driver
Freescale Kinetis SCK20DN51Z USB controller
Qualcomm Atheros AR6233GEAM2D 802.11n +
Bluetooth 4.0 controller
AC3029

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• The battery is intended to be easily replaced by the user,
and requires no tools to access.
• The entire device can be disassembled with readily-
available tools.
• Modular design throughout allows replacement of several
individual components.
• Minimal adhesive securing the front cover can be difficult to
separate, but poses no real challenge to opening.
• Fragile copper grounding tape can be difficult to peel and
replace.
• Because the display cable is adhered to the midframe,
replacing the LCD requires use of a heat gun.
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What makes it A 7 out
of 10?

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¿QUESTIONS?