That sound to be a quite productive weekend, when I saw first time the first two pictures I thought that it is an engine of an old timer with a lot of cylinder and pipes, it is amazing how complicated it looks inside. I would probably just closed it back. Hopefully you enjoyed it :)
haha! yes those resistors do look really huge if you don't know the context :)
I guess that if you had a powerful microscope and could looke at the circuitry of the processing chip of your computer or phone, it would look equally complicated (if not more so).