A hands-on workshop for anyone interested in repairing their electronic and electrical stuff, but don’t quite know where to start. You’ll test, diagnose and - we hope - fix* a TV remote control; all using easily available materials and the minimum of specialist tools - in fact we’ll also show you the ‘household alternatives’, just in case of a Zombie Apocalypse... By getting up close with a humble remote - something most of us have thrown away at some point in our lives - we’ll go on a journey of repair: one that takes in methods, principles and techniques directly appliable to a huge range of the repair challenges we find in our consumer appliances and gadgets. Includes: Testing and fault diagnosis (does it do what it’s meant to do, and if not, why not?) Bloated batteries and corroded contacts Getting in with an exit plan What actually needs to work for the thing to work? How to clean different parts of a device Reassembly and testing Along the way well cover the basics of how an infrared remote works, and participants will get the opportunity to compare and contrast an array of different design choices and implementations of the same tech across different remotes *Fixing is a nice outcome, but if you totally butcher the remote while trying to fix it you’ll still learn plenty for your next repair challenge - and we don’t mind, as there remotes have already been discarded, making this a guilt-free workshop