>>33661548
Learn basic electronics as a supplement. If you’ll be hacking, you’ll need a soldering iron and a breadboard. Start stocking and organizing components - resistors, capacitors, switches - and then “hack” simple things.
You can hack your toaster by simply cutting the power cables and wiring a manual switch in. Congrats it now has a new hacked function. Or, you swap in the “toast quality knob” which is just a variable resistor and a reed switch, and congratulations, you now have more control in your toast browning level. Oh wait, you want to swap out all those components with an arduino and code up some logic circuits to automatically toast at 6:66am at 66°C in June 6th for 6 minutes? You can with some code (which you can get from ChatGPT)
Congrats you now understand basic hacking.
Once you understand how the physical components work, you can get into “hacking” the code of preexisting systems. It’s mostly security exploits from outdated software.
Bear in mind that hacking has become both easier and harder. Easier with all the tools, harder because laws are now taken way more seriously. You will not become Kevin Mitnick. You will get busted by the feds. Happened to a buddy of mine and he went on the run for years. He “hacked” convenience store card readers and even had people in on the inside.