The take things apart has become obfuscated by modern technology design. Most devices these days just drop one of a dozen chips into a circuit board as it's brains. Program it, and then ship it. More or less black boxing the device. It's one of the reasons the supply chain hit a lot of tech hard, those few chips were low cost and plentiful ... Until the knock on effects of the supply chain issues happened and they weren't as profitable to make compared to the high prices chips companies like auto manufacturers were bulk ordering for a premium.
Fascinating few years, a whole generation of designs rendered unusable - complete designs trying to be reworked for the chips they could get a hold of.
Fascinating few years, a whole generation of designs rendered unusable - complete designs trying to be reworked for the chips they could get a hold of.