Peering into the Black Box, Revisited
I was visiting Bolt’s cool new incubator digs, and felt especially drawn to the disassembled consumer electronics products splayed onto rectangular displays, like a vivisection of the consumer tech frontier. I’ll leave each unlabeled if you want to guess what they are, and I’ll start with a couple of the more interesting and challenging ones.
It reminds me of the device disassembly class I led at my kids’ kindergarten. Old VCRs, digital cameras and HDDs are fantastic on the inside, with a strange hybrid of miniature electronics and moving parts. Here is an article I wrote for WIRED with photos that link to my flickr blog details on each disassembly: https://www.wired.com/2007/04/peering-into-th/
For the next project, we plan to collaborate. I have a full Apollo guidance computer (very rare and huge) and a Saturn V launch control computer to disassemble and document…. should be amazing inside.
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