iFixit wants to fix McDonald’s ice cream machines for good.
a teardown of McDonald’s machines, but it’s also petitioning the government to let it create the parts required for people to fix them., iFixit purchased the same ice cream machine model used by McDonald’s and spent hours trying to get it up and running. The machine spit out numerous error codes that iFixit says “are nonsensical, counterintuitive, and seemingly random, even if you spent hours reading the manual.
Despite consisting of “easily replaceable parts,” such as three printed circuit boards, a motor and belt, and a heat exchanger, the ice cream machine can only be fixed by its manufacturer — Taylor — due to an agreement it has with McDonald’s. While a company called Kytch attempted to remedy this by creating a product to read ice cream machine error codes, iFixit says McDonald’s “sent a letter to all of the franchise owners” instructing them not to use the device.
To get around this, iFixit filed an exemption to the law for ice cream machines, something it already has done for Xboxes, tractors, and smartphones. But iFixit notes that even if itreceive the exemption, it still won’t be able to distribute a tool designed to fix ice cream machines. Due to that, it’s also asking Congress to reintroduce, a law that would make it legal to bypass software locks and other measures to repair a product.
If Congress does end up going through with these changes, we may finally have a future where we don’t have to use
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