About
The Repair Forge is a YouTube channel about repairing and restoring cordless power tools.
The tools on this site started as repairs on the channel: packs that wouldn't charge and turned out to be fine. They are open, documented on GitHub, and built to say no when a pack really is finished.
Credits
Makita LXT
- Open Battery Information by Martin Jansson (MIT): the Makita protocol and the OneWire library PocketOBI builds on.
- The rosvall LXT protocol documentation.
- The obi-esp32 port by appositeit, used as the wiring reference.
Full list in the PocketOBI README.
Licences
- PocketOBI firmware and PackScope: PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0.
- Hardware files: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- This site's text and images: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Not affiliated
Makita and LXT are trademarks of Makita Corporation, named only to say which packs these tools work with. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Makita. No brand logos are used.