Walking Bread | iMac Thermal Extraction | Hardware Autopsy | Alex Boya

This captures a mid-dissection moment where the internal #iMac structure is being actively deconstructed with pliers. The act resembles a surgical extraction, pulling vital components away from the aluminum skeleton of the unibody shell.

Technical breakdown:

#Copper heatsink bracket: clearly visible with cross-arm mounting, its thermal transfer function linking the CPU/GPU to the rear cooling assembly. Its geometry echoes rib bones anchoring muscular tissue.

#Cooling duct (black plastic channel): designed to funnel heat through narrow conduits toward the fan assembly, here dangling like an extracted airway.

#Power harness cabling: severed wiring runs across the frame, sheared insulation resembling exposed veins. The wiring carries both data and current, critical for powering the logic board and peripherals.

#Logic board fragment (upper left): lifted by the tool, showing etched traces and solder points, appearing like fossilized vascular pathways in silicon.

#Aluminum shielding (background): lined with reflective foil, serving both as EMI protection and thermal spreader, doubling as the machine’s exoskeleton.

The process blurs consumer electronics teardown with forensic autopsy, framing the #disassembly as ritual dismemberment. This parallels Walking Bread’s animatronic experiments, where flesh and mechanism cross-pollinate — decayed bread as body, obsolete circuitry as bone marrow of machines.