Comment by vivzkestrel

- very stupid question: how does an absolute beginner at hardware stuff go about figuring out exactly how these things work?

- like identity microcontrollers and microprocessors, figure out what each one is for

- identify how to connect to them to read their firmware or bios or whatever, tools needed to do this

- what does that data mean and how to actually reverse engineer it

- how do you go about learning these things?