{"id":1065,"date":"2013-10-03T23:08:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T03:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2013-10-03T23:08:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T03:08:20","slug":"a-new-feature-tim-tears-it-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=1065","title":{"rendered":"A new feature: &#8220;Tim Tears It Apart&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, as you might have guessed, I&#8217;m an electronics engineer, and I like to tear things apart &#8211; especially gadgets. I don&#8217;t usually post about it, because a) someone else has probably already posted a teardown of that gadget, and b) I&#8217;m lazy as balls.<\/p>\n<p>But then I realized a good teardown is not all about the pretty pictures, but reverse-engineering the mind and intentions of the original designer. After about a deca*cough* some time in the industry, at the age where I tell kids to get off my lawn*cough* pull up their damn pants, I&#8217;m getting a pretty decent feel for not just how a gadget works, but why it works the way it does &#8211; i.e. the budgetary constraints, schedule pressures and technical constraints behind specific design decisions. So maybe it is worth posting those teardowns after all :p<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t guarantee it&#8217;ll be a frequent feature, but there are a few torn-apart gadgets I could throw my 2 cents in on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, as you might have guessed, I&#8217;m an electronics engineer, and I like to tear things apart &#8211; especially gadgets. I don&#8217;t usually post about it, because a) someone else has probably already posted a teardown of that gadget, and b) I&#8217;m lazy as balls. But then I realized a good teardown is not all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,136,172],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-gadget","tag-teardown","tag-timtearsitapart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}