Members of the Open Repair Alliance have recently updated their Open Repair Data Standard and combined nearly 30,000 records from their community events. It is available as open data for anyone to access.“By mapping this data to a common format, we can pool our repair data together and look for patterns and trends to help inform policy.”https://openrepair.org/repair-data/open-repair-data-30000-records-together-at-last/
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Sonos + Snips + IKEA = responsible smart speakers for the masses?
With the news of Sonos buying Snips and the positive track record of their partner IKEA in smart home products, everything seems to be in place for seeing the first responsible speakers for the masses in 2020/2021. We at ThingsCon hope to welcome them back to one of our events when that happens, but will be following […]
Buying 40 year old tractors. A new tactic in the fight for the right-to-repair?
For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity.http://www.startribune.com/for-tech-weary-midwest-farmers-40-year-old-tractors-now-a-hot-commodity/566737082/