"Art" (Иску́сство, [ɪˈskustvə]) means "Experience" in Old Church Slavonic
People often ask me what is the best way to start doing electronic repairs or console mods. I did a lot of youtube research on my vacations and found the channels of Luke Morse and Martin Retrogametech. They did tons of really interesting and inspiring in-depth videos on arcade and console mods/repairs, showcasing their well-described and very creative projects. I took most of my inspiration from them before I thought to pimp up my retro games collection and do some mods, improvements and experiments. So first of all I had to refresh my basic school knowledge of physics, just to get a better understanding on how all these electronic juices flow. I think it’s very personal so I advice just to find some materials which are satisfying enough to read/watch, ’cause we’ll need to enjoy the process after all :) As for me, I enjoyed some oldschool soviet educational programs because I watched them in my early childhood, and I personally find almost any old materials better and clearer than the modern ones, at least on basic/fundamental topics. Next you need to learn your basic tools, soldering iron to work with electronic circuits, and multimeter to measure them. Multimeters are quite easy to use, here is the best tutorial on them. Soldering is a tricky technique and requires you to do some practice and buy additional materials. Here are some videos on it, I carefully watched them, then made some notes to get the summary of all the details and aspects and after that did some practice on loose boards and components. – Best overview: How and why to solder correctly – Basic soldering lessons (almost every aspect in the great series by PACE) – In action: soldering techniques, professional SMT soldering