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You should try building a toaster from scratch https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toaster_from_scratch?language=en https://www.ted.com/tal

• atemerev 10y ago
  Unfortunately, I am not that good at manually building hardware. Learning how it works is another thing, though.
  • daveguy 10y ago
    Be careful assuming you understand how something works without having built at least a prototype.
    • unusximmortalis 10y ago
      Interesting thought. Do not say you know it/understand it untill you experience it. I thing there a thin line between these two categories, those things we ca understand without experience, and the rest. Is there a research paper about this aspect?
      • vidarh 10y ago
        The main issue is simply that most descriptions of a subject are nowhere near detailed enough to be "complete", and even if they are, the reader of that description almost never will manage to pick up every nuance of what is described. Try reproducing results from some research papers, and you see this demonstrated very easily, both in frustration of having to figure out what you misunderstood, and in frustration of trying to figure out details that were left out.
    • atemerev 10y ago
      This is correct. Got burned by this quite a few times.
    • kruczek 10y ago
      He said his knowledge "might be rudimentary and without much detail" - it is perfectly possible to understand how something works (in a general sense), without building a prototype yourself.