 The next lecture is about repair cafes. Repair your stereo, your iron, suiting iron. I would first try Google, find if YouTube shows me something, but in these days repair cafes are almost in every city. I think that there are many more things which can be repaired up to repairing PCBs and re-boiling ICs. What they all do will be presented by you by FRAXINAS now. You're listening to the translation of this talk held by PharmaFirma and HNMS. OK, I will switch off my screensaver first. I was announced with, well, we don't fix PCBs and such things in principle. 90% is repairing home electronics, quite harmless. Did I find household appliance and etc. So turn off the screensaver first. I hope it will not just turn off now. So repair initiatives, micro-scenes, repair cafes, hacker-scenes, etc. How can we work together better? As I begin with some words about what I am and what I do. Small introduction. What is the repair scene? How did it, how has it grown? How does it work at our repair space? What's the advantages? Who from Kios is already a member, two examples. Then what all can we do? OK, let's begin here. I am Andreas Frisch, alias FRAXINAS, alias RepairFox. That depends on where I'm active. I'm an electronic engineer. I do software engineering at the start, but in Colonia, cloud, video, etc. I founded the repair cafe in 2014 in Schaffenburg. I gave repair tapes in the R.D. as the first German television. And I'm a member of Schaffenburg, a VAU. And somebody once said this sentence. Somewhere everyone is a hacker, everyone has his own tricks and tips. That was this person. He said what we just said. There are thousands, a thousand of small things each day at the year where you need to make yourself comfortable when doing something with technical stuff. He said that very well. What I, for me, hacking is not just hacking on the keyboard and writing software. It's to get through your everyday life. What can I do with textiles? What can I hack them? How can I repair them? How can I use them otherwise? Better, more fantasies. That's what I find is the soul of the hacking since 1984. And so I think in the repair cafe, we should do our contribution to it. Well, the repair cafe movement, long time ago, you didn't use that. The Smith and your village could repair a thing from the horse stuff until the FAUA cover. But now we're in a society where products are made for much shorter lifespans. And in 2009, I think it was an one-term journalist in Holland who said that who founded this logo on this name of the repair cafe, this concept of the repair cafe she founded. Made this available for a small fee. You could, for a small fee, you could use this logo, the repair cafe name and logo. And in Germany and in other European countries, they provided the small starter kit, how you can deal with press. And oh, no, that was the screensaver. And the transference to the forms for the yes, the templates, et cetera, where you could quickly start and and build up, found your own repair cafes. Repair cafes and in 2011, 12, 13, this really started in Germany. In Germany, this I call it the organization of the repair cafes. They are from a foundation. They were started and you can find them find them under this link repair initiatives. And there you find money, repair cafes and similar organizations in the German speaking region of Europe. They can add their calendars, calendar entries. And yeah, there are quite a lot of people which which help there. Today it was six hundred and ninety nine entries of peoples and hackerspace which which contribute, but maybe not everyone is still active, but at least they have registered or registered there. And I think most of them is still active. The network Reparaturi even also does also supports when founding new repair initiatives. So there is quite a big list with documents, with templates, with the people you that can help you with other repair initiatives, which could help you and do a patronage and support you in any way. And similar to our chaos events in a much smaller scale. They have meetings, assemblies where you can meet each other, exchange your experiences, etc. There's also a round table repairing. I call it the political part of the repair movement. There we do lobby lobbying for in the politics. There are also environmental thoughts about this. There are scientists part of it, etc. And we that we want that repair parts can be easily attainable. It should be attainable by law. Apple should not. Yeah, it should be possible for free for free. People people should be able to get repair parts. So in short, if things are not available any more, for simple parts, for instance, we could print different parts. But usually you need a CD drawing or diagnosis tools for digital devices, which are closed source. And yeah, well, reverse engineers know what I'm talking about, how difficult it is to get the appropriate tools. And from from the economy, from the repair economy, they want they want to reduce the tax for repairs. This would, of course, make the whole thing a lot more attractive for the end user. At the moment, usually it's repairs are not economic. No, for a very typical procedure in our Schaffenburg repair cafe. We have also started with that logo, but we created our own logo last year. And also that label together, we can do that. And yeah, let's start with our board of papers. Most initiatives do it that way, that guests and I will really stress guests. So it's not customers here, put up like a paper where they write the name and their signature and to agree on the house agreements. And also agree on that if the device gets broken in the repair that it's OK to them, so it's like a legal security and also description of the error message. So what doesn't work exactly? We try to keep that already good description already at the start. So the person who is caring for them, the these papers are numbered on the board. So one of the repair people takes one of them and maybe look what they what thing they could fix. And they take one of them and call the guest and try to repair together with him. So the idea is we try to help people to help themselves. So we just lead the guest in repairing him on his own device. Give them the right tools, give them tips. Some of most times it is like that the repairing people is doing the most part. But often that the guests also want to do something themselves or just want to have a look how to open their thing. And every repair person has his specialties, what he can do best. Not everyone can try to repair tube radios. So there's right from the beginning there's different categories like textile work and so on. And we divide it by that. And the repair people bring their own tools. So their tools they can work best with. They have like their own toolbox like measurement tools or sewing machines, glue, so on. And they divide it up into different tables where the guests are sent to or where they are asked to go there depending on what device they have. So it's called repair café most times. So yeah, sometimes I call it differently like I think it's called café kaput, so café broken. But most times it's something with café in the name and that, yeah, you might guess that visitors guests get some food and drink there. We have like coffee and cake and and that pay in that photo we have been to some wet cross yeah quarter where the people have done Turkish food on basis on donations. Sometimes people bring food themselves. So in exchange for the repair they bring some cake or so on. What you can also do is bicycle repairs that has been outside in front of the repair café. The ADFC, the German bicycle club had put a pavillon there, sent there to do smaller repair work on bicycles. We don't want to conquer with the professional people who pay for their living from that. So we don't want to be we don't want to take customers from the bicycle repair shop or into corner, but we just send the people there to buy their replacement parts. And if it's like more complicated, they would we tell them to do it there as well. The same thing applies to more complicated repairs on like, yeah, audio equipment or some special equipment that we won't be able to fix in a repair café. So we don't want to argue with like professional repair shops. Textile work is also a big part of our work. We have like, seeing people who like to teach the people how to sue their trousers themselves and repair their clothing and so on. So something I don't know anything at all about, but it's much appreciated, textile work. Here you can see an our youth center in Aschaffenburg in one of our youth centers. You can see the different repair stations, repair tables. This is most electronic stuff on multiple tables in the front of the left. There's clothing to the right. There's electronic mechanical stuff. And yeah, it's divided by that. And the repair person sit right next to the visitors and you really can't distinguish them from each other. Everyone is repairing together with each other. That's like our principle of Aschaffenburg and I'm repairing the kitchen machine of his wife. So in the beginning, it's also publicity, PR, important people come around and the newspapers, white articles on us and you can do some PR work on that. And that photo, it's like a CD player. It's opened and yeah, it's sometimes luck to find the fault part if you start to analyze the boards with the logic analyzer. Most kinds, it's too deep into the detail. You can do it if you want to, if you have fun. But in general, you try to serve five guests with like simple things instead of doing one very difficult work. And the synergies, which is like a nice word. What are the advantages for the repair fee if they try to work together with a hacker space or a maker space? Often repair initiatives a bit. Yeah, for elderly people, that doesn't apply to all but they are extra, but most times it's older people who have time, who enjoy helping people, helping people fix their things and yeah, that's like we need young people there. And you kinda notice that. And if you look around here, our age is near to zero. Yeah, every age is here and there's young people and it's like you don't have to care about getting new people into the hacker scene. So then there's people who have like skills, engineers, engineers and technical people. So you don't have to debate on that anymore. And what's also great in the hacker space is there's great equipment. So not only measurement tools, but also new fancy prototyping devices, 3D printers, laser cutters and so on. So 3D printed replacement parts we've also used in the repair fee is the problem is to construct them. That's a huge time thing, laser cutters, CNC cutters. We haven't used that yet. It also depends on the people that have the skills and the knowledge. And yeah, rooms like many hacker spaces have their own clubs, their own rooms. Many repair cafes and repair initiatives don't have that, including the Schaffenberger repair cafe, we go around from each place to another between like church centers and new centers and yeah, to gather the different masses that gather around there and to give the visitors the opportunity to reach the repair fee by feet without having to walk too far with their devices which is great as well. But the disadvantage is that people have to bring their own stuff, their own tools. We can't store it somewhere. And in maker spaces we can because that's like a dedicated place for making, for repairing stuff, for trying things out and many repair cafes and hacker spaces or maker spaces have an open, yeah. Open workshop, which is optimal for us. And well, it's optimal if a repair cafe can be a guest in the rooms, in such rooms. That's with us in Schaffenburg. This is once a year we try to do this. Well, it's a space problem. We don't have enough space. Otherwise you could do it more often. The advantages for us as a makers and hackers, we can do good PR. We can, we show our engagement for the society. I also, I had a similar talk with a networking meeting for repair initiatives. And the first thing I needed to do was to help them what is a hacker. So it's, this world is usually misunderstood. People are, I fear from hackers. That's usually the first thing that you need to do. And when you repair their toasters, then they see it much more positive, of course. And of course, we all know our planet is not doing that well. We need to protect the environment, which we do using, doing this, of course. Each device which does not, is not the electronic waste is better. Electronic recycling is not, not that well. The longer a thing works, the better it is. And we can also find new members. I didn't repair kafas. I was first in repair kafas and then in a micro space or hacker space, there came some young guys from the just newly established Schaffenburg micro space. I would have never expected that something like this happened here because it's really a small town. But yeah, it was very well they came there. I found them and we also found a lot of more people using, using this model. And the next topic, applying repair techniques, we are, we might be masters of engineering, et cetera, but that doesn't still mean that we know how to open a vacuum cleaner. So it's quite well to learn more practical aspects. Honorable mention, the Sustainable Design Center has published a brochure about repairs. A usual example is of kitchen devices where you can print repair parts. I had a look in the 699 and compared it to the new, I compared it to the list from the Dockowicke of Erfars. And I found out that only five initiatives fall together with the hacker spaces. This is bizarrely few. I'm sure there is quite a lot more where the address does not match, but for instance, there is Schaffenburg and the Percofe Schaffenburg because the official address of our Percofe is the youth center and not the hacker space. Maybe this is the case for even more candidates. For instance, at the Decentrale, I just spoke with somebody from there. You might have seen it in the newest Dartenschleuder. It's a magazine of CCC. You might have seen that, but they don't have an entry in repair initiative. But I saw that many cities have where a repair cafe exists. There is no car stress and vice versa. There are many cities where it's just one or the other, not both. In Austria, we have a hotel. They do up to the smallest town and village, cool things like hacker space and the kids hacking, et cetera. Yesterday, somebody from Gmunden was at me and told a bit about it. It's a really cool network. Two examples. Jena has, like a Schaffenburg since 2014, a repair cafe. And when they were founded in the initiative, when they were founded, probably via Facebook, many multiple people from the hack space were part of this founder initiative. And so it came that the hacker space basically provided the address and money that can also get funding from the public. But they don't repair much because it's probably not big enough. They change the localities as we do. What they usually do is they take an old bus and try to rebuild it, to build a workshop out of it. Also, I have a negative example. Schinken told me that after the second try, they stopped it in the hack space because people, I say, customers, not guests, they thought like, hey, you have to fix my things when I arrive here. And that's of course not the goal. Nobody wants to do that. Nobody wants to fix a Windows machines and especially not in the open minded spaces. One important thing is to communicate in advance that the repair cafe has nothing to do with the normal space operation, but that they are dedicated and that the people need to help repairing their stuff that it is not repaired for them. And have something ready, very good, where you can send the people if they want you to repair, they fix their Windows. That works very well. This also applies for radio and TV and also appliances. Here, do what? Do something. Join some repair initiative. Look up where the nearest place is to your home place and repair initiatives DE on the URL. You can look for that and maybe bring your tools there already because you can just join them in most cases and take some toaster or something and try repairing or fixing it. Maybe take a laptop and try to fix their software installation things or maybe cleaning the fans. Or if you are already active in the space, then try to maybe found a repair cafe thingy in your space. Talk about that in your meetings and it's a great thing with huge publicity effects. Or maybe even go further and read the foundation pages on repaircafe.org or maybe on repair, we have about two inches deep in the ear. Get together as many people as you want, because you can because alone it isn't as fun and you can like get founding there. And if you need something as missing, like requirements everywhere we need, we repair cafes everywhere. And yeah, you can really, really make change, make a great movement, study a great movement there. Besides the general fixing stuff, we like to talk about, we like to order a lot of stuff in Asia. So maybe try to use old hardware first and maybe make some new things out of it. You can do like project with children to stress sustainability and that we can fix things with a soldering iron and not only maybe do buttons, so coins that we put repairs, which are thrown away afterwards. We can do upcycling, we can repair broken hoverboards and upcycle them to very fast Bobby cars and that's something that, yeah, let's beat the maker hard faster. I don't know if they've really been broken, but probably. Okay, and there's been a conference first time this year in November. It was called Bits and Boimer, Bits and Trees. It's a really cool name. I don't know who made that up. Constanze Kurtz has been there and also some other people from the Kaysk Computer Club and they told people about digitalization and with sustainability and how that goes along. And I haven't been there, unfortunately, but maybe we'll have that next year again and then I'll be there probably. And then in the Kaysk Computer Club, there's the R5. It emerged from the Tuvaat workgroup in March, Resources and Recycling and we've just met a few months before this talk at the assembly and brainstorm some new ideas what we can do in the Kaysk Computer Club to, yeah, make this repair movement more public and more often. We probably find other maker and techer spaces and car steps and air files that are offering repair cafes already and maybe we can list them and do some networking and make some how-to or some guide how to make your own repair cafe in the chaos surroundings. And there's something in the Dukoviki who's in there and the channel on Rocker Chat. There's an arm missing, I'll add that. So, join the work. Are there any questions? Yeah, yes, ma'am. Okay, thank you. We have quite a lot of time for Q&A. Are there questions? For Q&A, are there questions? Stand up, go to the microphone. Oh, microphone on the rise. You said that repairing something for people but it's better to help people repair their own things and the consequences that people should do it by themselves. We should support them by looking for data sheets, et cetera, but people need to repair it. How do others do this? What are the advantages and disadvantages? So, in general, the concept is, in most cases, just as you said, help people to help themselves. But in practice, there is a thing we get so slow that we can't really do our pile of work in the right time. We have sometimes up to 80 sheets on our board, 80 things willing to get fixed and we try to process them as fast as possible. In general, it comes down to that the repairing person does the most part of the work but the guest is present and is watching the repair and sometimes they have elderly people who have no understanding of technical stuff and just enjoy the societal and maybe cake and coffee and so on. Excuse me, please give me a microphone if you have a question. I can repeat the question. How many appointments are there? How many meetings are there? At first, there are repair cafes that do it every week but there have also been some places that are connected to some jobless cafes that do it every day and then there are some who are doing that only once and then never again and we are trying to do it seven times a year, nine times a year so about every six weeks. Microphone number one, please close to the microphone. I am interested in how you proceed when you have to repair something. For instance, with my things I am quite experimental and in case it breaks, I don't care that much and you have legally well done but it makes no fun if half of the things break. How do you do this? You just mentioned about half of the things go well and the other half is not repairable and just like broken to no repair. Sometimes it's even more up to 70%, sometimes people come with things that are so broken that they just want to get assured you can really throw it away without having a bad feeling about it. But besides that repair is often connected to trying things out, experimenting stuff and if you want to have so many different things on your table you have never seen before like electrical massage seats and so on, you can just try out. You don't know anything about that. Besides that at the beginning you said I'll start by watching a YouTube video maybe someone tried to fix that thing before we do that as well and then only because just to see how to open the thing where are the screws, where are the clips. Okay, I see no further questions. Thank you, I don't see more questions. Ah, there is still a question. Microphone number 2, please. I think they were in first. We take microphone 2 now. Thank you. My question is I am also thinking about starting such a thing, microspace, when you do something for the publing how about liability if you break something? Oh, that's my MacBook Pro, now it's broken. So most try to get legal assignment against those like liability by the small print on the back of the sign-up formula. So in our case we write that we are unreliable for things that get broken during repair. It's different if we make like if we hurt people by bad repairs I haven't heard of a case where that happened where a person got hurt because of a bad repair but what exists is by the un-stiftung there's insurance that ensures for about 150 years per year the repair fees that every repair person has an insurance against personal, yeah, so like people getting hurt or so on because of bad repairs. You should try to do it as carefully as possible many repair fees also do an official VDE like insurance so like the German electronic like community some don't because they say we're not in public repair space we don't have to do that, yeah. What do you do with the things that which are broken beyond repair? Do you send the people back? Do you give it back to them and then proceed how they want or do you recycle it? Do you discard it yourself? Yeah, both, it differs. People have to sign that they have to take care for the broken things if they are broken but sometimes we do things like here's like a repairable device without a broken part and there's another thing where this part is working and we can join those things and make one working device out of both but we also had, it was an experiment last year in June we called it like garbage festival where people just could put their things in front of the youth center so like the electronic devices broken, furniture and other people could pick something out of that waste and repair it in the repair cafe and take it home afterwards and everything else was trashed by the local garbage collection and we're going to do this this year again. Applause in the hall. Are there more questions? Microphone number one. I follow up for the first question. It was about our people doing it themselves or do you help them? I also have sometimes to do with repair cafes and the the question is what's the goal? Do we want to reuse the device or do we want to teach the people what is more important? How important is the question to you? For us it's like it's an event we have guests that come regularly and they try to pick things from the attic just to have a reason to come to us and to enjoy the whole thing but repair competence and the ability to fix things is what we want to teach the people. It's an important point, of course. It's nice that you mentioned that. I think that's a nice ending word. Thank you. And I'll be listening to