It reminds me of #GeorgeDyson's brilliant memoir/history of computing, *Turing's Cathedral*, where he describes how he and the other children of the scientists building the first digital computers at the #PrincetonInstitute spent their summers in the basement, hand-winding cores for the early colossi their parents were building on the floors above them:
https://memex.craphound.com/2012/03/12/george-dysons-history-of-the-computer-turings-cathedral/
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You can see my hacker aesthetic photos in my #Defcon31 photo set:
In this video, Eric Schlaepfer illustrates the painstaking work that went into decomposing these tiny, precise components into their messy, analog subcomponents. It's pure hacker aesthetic, and it's mesmerizing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKyJ0b04Lo
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But *Open Circuits* isn't just an aesthetic journey, it's a technical one. After all, Oskay is co-founder of nostr:npub1q0ja6uqhxmkx2k7fx3wdlg68n4drmw0e0cp4v2md9763r8welafsjum8gd, one of the defining places where hardware hackers gather to tear down, pick apart, mod, improve and destroy electronics. The accompanying text is a masterclass in the simple machines that combine together to make complex assemblies:
https://www.evilmadscientist.com/
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