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29 Nov 2008, 2:16 pm

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I take things apart to see how they work as part of my job. It's called "Reverse Engineering."


I just looked up reverse engineering on wikipedia and it sounds like just the thing for me!


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29 Nov 2008, 2:19 pm

__biro wrote:
Fnord wrote:
I take things apart to see how they work as part of my job. It's called "Reverse Engineering."

I just looked up reverse engineering on wikipedia and it sounds like just the thing for me!

Get an engineering degree first. You'll have to know how things interact before you can analyse something new.


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29 Nov 2008, 2:22 pm

I love tinkering with things, taking them apart, putting them back together, re-painting them...the whole nine yards. My dad was an auto mechanic as well.

You need to watch Deconstructed and How it's Made, they are cool shows.



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29 Nov 2008, 3:03 pm

I was forever dismantling things as a kid, especially mechanical toys. I wanted to see how they worked and then put them back together, not always successfully! These days, however, I instinctively reverse engineer people's jokes instead



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29 Nov 2008, 3:21 pm

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I took apart one of my sewing machines so that I could try and fix/tune it as well as give it a fresh paint job.



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29 Nov 2008, 3:25 pm

Of course!

But once I know how the inside works I'm usually content to let it sit without tinkering. What I would prefer to do is build a new one from scratch, so I wasn't constrained to their design choices. Though, occasionally, I find something that is very well refined and optimized for all foreseeable usages. I like those the most.

What bugs me the most is the damn hard plastic shells that come on just about everything that I want to crack open, making it a pain in the ass to examine, much less repair.

And reverse engineering, how fun! That's the first engineering discipline that I can remember honestly tempting me...



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29 Nov 2008, 3:34 pm

Old fashion alarm clocks and anything electrical, as a toddler I took every clock
I get my hands on apart, just for the gears, loved to spin them. I also took a tv
apart while watching a kids show on it, I did this without shorting anything out,
my mom and dad were quite mad, I was only 5 when I did that.
Oh ya, took one of these apart, my mom was very mad of that. I was 3 1/2.

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I took apart one of my sewing machines so that I could try and fix/tune it as well as give it a fresh paint job.



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29 Nov 2008, 3:45 pm

I used to take things apart when I was younger to see how they worked.

Now I only take things apart to see if I can fix them.


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29 Nov 2008, 4:15 pm

I like to build things out of Lego, K'Nex (and similar) take them apart and then rebuild them exactly the way I built it previously. I also like to take things apart and put them back together but not neccessarily for fun. Like, when I was a kid, I took apart my laptop's floppy disk drive to remove an object that someone had jammed in there and then put it back together. I had immense fun doing it, but I didn't do it just becuase I felt like it.


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29 Nov 2008, 4:31 pm

I love machanics, but take them apart by visualisation only, not to get in trouble. :)



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29 Nov 2008, 4:41 pm

Yes, I took things apart when I was a child. Clocks (the kind with gears), push lawn mowers, friction toys and things of that sort.

Once they were apart I was satisfied. I had little interest in putting them back together.

I don't normally take things apart too often as an adult. I generally know how things work, and I still can't be bothered putting them back together.

If there is a problem or upgrade with a computer or something, I do it, but I've lost the case screws to every computer I've ever had.



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29 Nov 2008, 6:01 pm

I get very great job satisfaction from taking broken things apart and fixing them.


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30 Nov 2008, 8:32 am

I like to take things apart once their broken just to see if I can fix them. Sometimes I can, sometimes, like with my broken xbox 360 that was out of warrenty, I could not. But it was still fun to see how the new one worked based on the insides of the old one.



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30 Nov 2008, 9:00 am

I take most things apart. I even take clothes apart to see how they are sewn together :P

I try to control myslef though with thing of any bigger value, it has happened before that I took something apart and couldn't assemble it back :oops:


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30 Nov 2008, 2:35 pm

__biro wrote:
If I see anything that can be taken apart then I will take it apart. I love to see how things are put together and how they work. I can't visualise it so I just get stuck in and take it apart. This gets me into trouble a fair bit at college but I feel compelled like I am driven to do it. I always put the things back together. Does anyone else do this? Is this anything to do with AS?

Used to be like this. Also I used to be obsessed with electronics and the like. Infact I designed a video recording area for little skits I would do with my friends, It had "spot lights" (basically florescent lights) with microphones and several video camera's I rigged to recording devices and TVs. It was quite fun.



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01 Dec 2008, 11:43 am

Since twelfth grade, I have been trying to take apart a portable radio shack radio, so I can figure out how radios are made, and what parts are needed to make them, etc.