Table of Contents
This appears intriguing – it’s explained as a “photographic exploration of the attractive style inside day-to-day electronics”. Essentially, cross-area photography, accompanied by explanatory text, bids to unlock a “hidden planet complete of class, refined complexity, and wonder”. Pretty spectacular it seems.
The publishers, No Starch Press, produce:
“Our telephones, personal computers, and appliances are created of hundreds of internal elements, each individual exactly engineered to perform a sure operate, but none intended to really be observed. Through painstakingly executed, vividly in depth cross-section images, Open up Circuits reveals the surprising—and typically accidental—beauty hiding within the electronic factors that drive our day to day products.”
“From resistors to LEDs, USB cables to headphone jacks, stepper motors to nixie tubes, the book’s arresting imagery transforms additional than 130 components into delightful works of artwork. As you visually dissect the components’ insides, you will study about how they function and how they were being created. Open up Circuits has anything for anyone to recognize, no matter whether you’re a seasoned electrical engineer, an amateur tinkerer, or simply just a lover of art and photography.”
Pictured previously mentioned, for instance, is a sliced HDMI cable (a high-tech kind of kimbap, pretty much).
If you are interested in the guide, you can download Chapter 1 as a sample (PDF).
Contents
The table of contents is as follows:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Passive Components
- Chapter 2: Semiconductors
- Chapter 3: Electromechanics
- Chapter 4: Cables and Connectors
- Chapter 5: Retro Tech
- Chapter 6: Composite Devices
- Afterword: Generating Cross Sections
- Glossary
Authors
In conditions of the authors, Eric Schlaepfer runs the common engineering Twitter account @TubeTimeUS, where he posts cross area pics, discusses retrocomputing and reverse engineering, and investigates engineering mishaps. For illustration, his tasks consist of the MOnSter 6502 (the world’s most significant 6502 microprocessor, designed out of individual transistors) and the Snark Barker (a retro recreation of the popular Seem Blaster audio card).
Windell H. Oskay is the co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, where by he patterns robots. A longtime photographer, he retains a B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from Lake Forest University and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the writer of The Annotated Develop-It-Yourself Science Laboratory.
Open Circuits information
Title: Open up Circuits – The Interior Beauty of Electronic Factors
Authors: Windell Oskay, Eric Schlaepfer
Publisher: No Starch Push
Date: September 2022
Webpages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781718502345
Formats: Hardcover, Book (PDF, Mobi, and ePub)
Charges: From $31.99
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