Prying Eyes - EDN

An inside look at design decisions
In EDN's Prying Eyes, we peer inside an end-user consumer gadget, a reference design, or any other interesting electronics-enabled thing we can get a good look at (we've done a vacuum cleaner, a bus, a cereal-box toy, and even a rocket).

Unlike your average bill-of-materials teardown, Prying Eyes aims to illuminate the tough design decisions the engineers responsible for the design had to make. Plus, it's just fun to break stuff.