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A non-exhaustive list of reference material we found useful during ITP:Teardown
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Teardowns/Repair
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Teardown videos
AvE (Arduino versus Evil)
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Teardown videosThe Signal Path
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Teardown videosEEVBlog
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Repair instruction & advocacy
https://www.ifixit.com/
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Repair advocacyrepair.org
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Manifesto
https://criticalengineering.org/
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Electronics Waste/Recycling
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Wire recycling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODbqjcbZ6dk
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Discard Studies
https://discardstudies.com/author/maxliboiron/
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LES Ecology E-Waste program
https://www.lesecologycenter.org/programs/ewaste/
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Design/Critical Making
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Open Modular Software
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html
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Current Magazine: What is Critical Making?
http://current.ecuad.ca/what-is-critical-making
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Matt Ratto @ U Toronto: The Critical Making Lab
https://criticalmaking.com/matt-ratto/
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Open Design Now
http://opendesignnow.org/index.html%3Fp=434.html
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Designing for Repair? Infrastructures and Materialities of Breakdown
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~daniela/files/cscw14-rosner-repair.pdf
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How Many Standards in a Laptop? (And Other Empirical Questions)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1619440
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Ecology/Philosophy/Research
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Timothy Morton's book re: ecology & habits of thought
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World
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Jane Bennett's book re: New Materialism
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
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Rethinking Repair (Broken World Thinking)
https://sjackson.infosci.cornell.edu/RethinkingRepairPROOFS%28reduced%29Aug2013.pdf
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Baruch Gottlieb's book re: materialism
Digital Materialism
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Why are Amazon's Data Centers Hidden in Spy Country?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/amazon-web-services-data-center/423147/
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Maintenance and Care
https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/?cn-reloaded=1
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Shannon Mattern's Sorting Things Out workshop @SFPC
https://medium.com/sfpc/sorting-things-out-b06d39cfa37e
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The Cobalt Pipeline
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/congo-cobalt-mining-for-lithium-ion-battery/
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In Your Phone, In Their Air
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/graphite-mining-pollution-in-china/
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Tossed Aside In The ‘white Gold’ Rush
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/tossed-aside-in-the-lithium-rush/
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Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolitics
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/86/161887/cosmotechnics-as-cosmopolitics/
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Art/Projects
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Mary Mattingly: What Happens After?
https://www.bricartsmedia.org/art-exhibitions/mary-mattingly-what-happens-after
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Ingrid Burrington: Alchemy Studies
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/ingrid-burrington-alchemy-studies
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Taeyoon Choi: Handmade Computer
http://avant.org/project/hello-world/
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Electronics basics
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Sparkfun tutorials
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/connector-basics
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What's the difference between connector, plug, jack, and port?
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001379.htm
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Creating all of the components of a crystal radio from household materials
The Voice of the Crystal: How to Build Working Radio Receiver Components Entirely from Scratch
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Textbook
Practical Electronics for Inventors
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Capacitors - Quartz Obsession
https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/1589497/
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Lost Knowledge: Homemade electronic components
https://makezine.com/2009/04/14/lost-knowledge-homemade-electronic/
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HOW DO TRANSISTORS WORK?: NO, HOW DO THEY REALLY WORK?
http://amasci.com/amateur/transis.html
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Electrical Component Cross Sections
https://twitter.com/i/moments/1112130787694931968
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Make Logic Gates Out Of (Almost) Anything
https://hackaday.com/2017/01/03/make-logic-gates-out-of-almost-anything/
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