It's often not too difficult to find resources on how a piece of software works and is made. While you may not find line by line code of Google Search, you can find resources that explain most of fundamentals of a search engine and how to build a search engine.
But, if you want to figure out how a pice of hardware (e.g. Falcon 9, Oculus and a microchip) works and is made, it's not so easy. Hardware industry is not as collaborative or as open as software counterparts. The only resources to understand hardware are specialised books that only people in respective domains would have heard of. (Book discovery is another issue, e.g. it's taking me an awful lot of time to find a book on how digital electrical switches work)
Having a great resource like this to understand how a piece of hardware is made and how it works is incredibly valuable and reduces the barrier to understanding hardware a notch down, I look forward to more and better accessibility to understanding hardware.
But, if you want to figure out how a pice of hardware (e.g. Falcon 9, Oculus and a microchip) works and is made, it's not so easy. Hardware industry is not as collaborative or as open as software counterparts. The only resources to understand hardware are specialised books that only people in respective domains would have heard of. (Book discovery is another issue, e.g. it's taking me an awful lot of time to find a book on how digital electrical switches work)
Having a great resource like this to understand how a piece of hardware is made and how it works is incredibly valuable and reduces the barrier to understanding hardware a notch down, I look forward to more and better accessibility to understanding hardware.