AI Projects · Interactive example
Ready for the Fixer
Before a fix starts at a free community repair event, someone records what the item is and what’s wrong with it, on a short ticket or a fuller intake form. This page helps you prepare those details, and a few more, at home in about three minutes. Describe the item, run two quick safety checks, and leave with a ticket you can show or copy. The checks cover battery warning signs and recalls, and they say plainly when something shouldn't come yet.
Part 1 of 3 · What you're bringing
Describe the item the way a fixer would ask
Answer a few questions here, at home, and you'll arrive with the item's details, and a few more, ready to hand the fixer.
Part 2 of 3 · Two checks before you leave home
Should it come at all?
Most broken things should come. Two kinds shouldn't, at least not yet: a device whose rechargeable battery shows warning signs, and a product under recall, where the company may already owe you a fix.
The battery check appears if you choose "Rechargeable battery" above.
Every event decides what it can take. Some don't take microwaves, gas engines or large furniture, for example. This page can't know your event's list, so check it or ask the organizers.
Part 3 of 3 · Take it with you
Your repair ticket
Start with what it is and what happens.
You've edited this ticket, so changing your answers won't overwrite it unless you rebuild it.
What changes for the fixer
The same answers, written two ways. The left is a basic desk ticket (just the item and what needs fixing); the right is what this page prepares. Events that use fuller intake forms already record some of these details. It shows what this page adds to a basic ticket. It doesn't measure time saved.
Basic desk ticket
Item: (not filled in) What needs fixing: (not filled in)
Prepared ticket adds
Fill in Part 1 to see what's added.
Where the two checks come from
- Battery warning signs and what to do: New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Lithium-Ion Battery Consumer Safety Guide (PDF, file dated May 2024; read 24 October 2026).
- Damaged batteries and disposal: U.S. EPA, Used Lithium-Ion Batteries (page updated 20 March 2026; read 24 October 2026).
- Recalls: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Recalls (read 24 October 2026).
These are general safety sources, not any event's house rules, and this isn't professional safety advice. If a device is smoking, get outside and call 9-1-1.
About this example
It's for anyone who brings things to a free community repair event, and for the volunteers who run the desk. Some events use a short ticket for the item and the problem; others use fuller intake forms. This page asks for the details a fixer may need to ask about, and for two safety checks, before anyone leaves home.
- How it works: fixed rules written in advance. No AI runs on this page, and the safety notes repeat the sources above.
- What it isn't: any event's official form, a registration or booking system, or a judgment on whether something can be fixed. It isn't affiliated with, made for or endorsed by any repair event.
- Privacy: this page's own code keeps your answers inside the page. It doesn't save or send them, and they're cleared when you leave or press Start over. Like every page on this site, it also loads site analytics when it opens; the Privacy page explains what that collects.
- How it was made: written and built by Dorian Hartwood with AI assistance (Claude), then checked against the sources. An event adapting it would supply its own tables, house rules and wording, and its own translations.
Version 1, 25 October 2026. The sample item is fictional.
