Open Circuits
The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components
No Starch Press · Print & ebook · November 1, 2022
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- Who it’s for
- Look inside familiar electronics and find intricate design where no one meant you to look.
- Themes
- The design inside everyday electronics, Cross-section photography, How components work and are made
- Genres
- Electronics
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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.
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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.
Hidden Design
Look inside familiar electronics and find intricate design where no one meant you to look.
Come here for
- Cross-section photographs that make resistors, LEDs, and cables unexpectedly lovely
- A visual detour into the hidden architecture of everyday devices
Expect
- Vivid component images paired with explanations of how parts work and were made
Where it sits
| Electronics | 45% |
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Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Industrial Design
- Electronics
- Product Design
- Authors
- Windell Oskay, Eric Schlaepfer
- Publisher
- No Starch Press
- Published
- November 1, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- The design inside everyday electronics · Cross-section photography · How components work and are made
- Reading lane
- Industrial Design