In 2003, Cal Poly computer science freshman Kyle Wiens accidentally dropped his Apple iBook and broke it. He couldn’t find a repair manual online, so he figured out how to fix the laptop himself — then made a repair manual to share with others. Over the past nearly 20 years, Wiens has been co-founder and […]
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Engineering students, faculty are designing emergency ventilators for COVID-19 patients
An engineering professor and two of his students have been collaborating to design low-cost ventilators that could potentially be used to treat COVID-19 patients.
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Yosemite Hall startup turned fix-it-yourself empire
You might know the unlikely origins of some of the biggest tech boom startups, like Napster and Facebook which started in university residence halls. But Cal Poly’s Yosemite Hall was once the original headquarters of iFixit, a site that teaches people how to fix almost anything. The history The idea was born in 2003 out […]