Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components

By Windell Oskay and Eric Schlaepfer

Book Overview

Open Circuits is a photographic exploration of the beautiful design inside everyday electronics. Its stunning cross-section photography unlocks a hidden world full of elegance, subtle complexity, and wonder. Our phones, computers, and appliances are made of hundreds of internal components, each precisely engineered to perform a certain function, but none intended to actually be seen. Through painstakingly executed, vividly detailed cross-section photography, Open Circuits reveals the surprising-and often accidental-beauty hiding inside the electronic components that drive our everyday devices. From resistors to LEDs, USB cables to headphone jacks, stepper motors to nixie tubes, the book's arresting imagery transforms more than 130 components into delightful works of art. As you visually dissect the components' insides, you'll learn about how they work and how they were made. Open Circuits has something for everyone to appreciate, whether you're a seasoned electrical engineer, an amateur tinkerer, or simply a lover of art and photography.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1718502346
• ISBN13: 9781718502345
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Didn't read it but saw Authors presenting what they did at VCF West 2020something and talked about t

Authors told the story of the book. I don't recall why they said they started slicing components and photographing them. They showed various techniques and talked about issues and needing to do multiple attempts. Was an interesting talk. If you like old computers with 1980s and before VCF Vintage Computer Forum has retro festivals. So if you want to see inside capacitors, transistors, ICs etc this because will have lot of pictures. Most of us only see inside a component when we accidently blow it up.