Hardware teardowns are awesome when guided by experts. One of our favorites over the years has been [Mike Harrison], who has conquered teardowns of some incredibly rare and exquisitely engineered gear, sharing the adventure on his YouTube channel: mikeselectricstuff. Now he’s putting on a workshop to walk through some of the techniques he uses when looking at equipment for the first time.
[Mike] will be in Pasadena a few days early for the Hackaday Superconference and floated the idea of hosting a workshop. We ordered up some interesting gear which he hasn’t had a chance to look at yet. A dozen lucky workshop attendees will walk through the process [Mike] uses to explore the manufacturing and design choices — skills that will translate to examining any piece of unknown gear. He may even delve into the functionality of the equipment if time allows. Get your ticket right now!
To keep things interesting we’re not going to reveal the equipment until after the fact. But follow the event page where we’ll publish the details of his reverse engineering work after the workshop.
[Mike] is the badge designer for this year’s Hackaday Superconference badge. Unfortunately Supercon is completely sold out (we tried to warn you) but you can check out the badge details he already published. And we will be live streaming the Supercon this year — more details on that next week!
Hopefully all that “incredibly rare and exquisitely engineered gear” is put back together and running, with no parts left over. ;-)
If you have left over parts, just repeat the process a few times, and then you can use all those left-overs to build something new! Awesome!
I read the title as “revenge engineering workshop” and got excited for a moment…
Well, that’ll also be interesting, I can write one up for you but first you’ve got to go off to an expert to learn the art of trolling!
Once you’re skilled in that, the ideas for revenge is easier and the classes can commence!
Please have a camera rolling during that workshop. Pretty please.
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GTFO,
The article is too short to TL;DR-link split.
I could sympathize if →
Mike’s only flaw is not making enough videos
He could also speak a little more slow or not mumble. I’m not a native english speaker and for me its hard to understand what he says
*slower