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This website is a collection of projects that I have worked on and photographs that I took with my microscope.

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See you in a few weeks! 😉 - Hello everyone! I'll be away on a series of trips for about the next two weeks. I don't expect that I'll have much time to post here, but I may post updates on my personal account, @evilmonkeyz if you want to see what I'm
Watch out! This buffer is fast! 😳 - #ComponentsCloseUp No. 203: Fast Buffer - *** Quick Facts! *** Manufacturer: National Semiconductor Part Number: LH0033CG - As the description above suggests, this is a fast buffer. How fast is “fast”?
#ComponentsCloseUp No. 202: High-sensitivity Ambient Light Sensor - *** Quick Facts! *** Manufacturer: VISHAY Part Number: VEML6035 Package Size: 2 x 2 x 0.4mm - If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know just how much I like Am
#ComponentsCloseUp No. 201: WiMAX Driver Amplifier - *** Quick Facts! *** Manufacturer: TriQuint Semiconductor (Qorvo) Part Number: AH314-G -  This part was sent to me quite some time ago from @leka_engineer . It was misplaced in a container of
I've collected them all! (For now) - Four more displays from @siliconinsider arrived today, and adding that to the one I already have makes five! If you want to get one for yourself, send him a message here on Instagram, but supplies for each one are
I bet you thought we were done with this part 😉 - Thanks to @siliconinsider , I can do a side-by-side comparison of two different R4400 silicon chips. The one in the part is from NEC, and the wafer piece is from IDT (marked 79440). Both manufacturer
Tap to add 1 mana of any color. - #ComponentsCloseUp No. 200: 64-bit MIPS Processor MCM - *** Quick Facts! *** Manufacturer: MIPS/NEC Part Number: MR-4401A-200 Process node: 0.35 μm CMOS (4 layers) Transistor Count: Over 2 million -  This mul
ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN! 🚂 - Here it is, #ComponentsCloseUp number 200! No pictures of the silicon chip just yet though 😉. Can anyone identify what this is from this picture?  - Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post with the silicon pics and
Where's Waldo? Can you find him? - Waldo is hiding somewhere on this chip (or at least his head is). Let me know if you think you can see him 😉. - Thanks to @siliconinsider , I finally found where Waldo has been hiding. He told me what chip he is on
The last one is my favorite 🤣 - I was scrolling through the pictures on my phone and realized there is a "Stories" tab in the Gallery app. My phone automatically tried to group certain types of pictures together. - How would you rate
🔬#AutoMicroXYZ Update 15 ⚙ - Getting closer! I designed more parts for the bracket/mount that will attach to the clamp I made earlier. - Instead of trying to take really precise measurements and get it all right the first time, I made these pieces c
#ComponentsCloseUp No. 199: Prototype MEMS Accelerometer - *** Quick Facts! *** Manufacturer: TRW/AMI? Part Number: Unknown -  Sadly like a lot of these older/prototype parts, I was unable to find a datasheet for this specific part. Thanks to th
🔬#AutoMicroXYZ Update 14 ⚙ - Another update! I designed a "heat frame" to mount to the motor controller PCB. This serves a few purposes. One is to provide additional cooling to motor driver chips. The second is to add rigidity to the PCB s
🔬#AutoMicroXYZ Update 13 ⚙ - It looks like this clamp is going to work! The clamp applies a lot of clamping force and seems to be holding it very securely to the microscope stage. I hung a motor and steel motor mount off of the clamp as a load test.
We are getting close to number 200! - #ComponentsCloseUp No. 198: Digital Microcircuit - *** Quick Facts! *** Manufacturer: Raytheon? Part Number: MIS-29515/54 -  What a neat part! The pin numbers are printed on the outside of the ceramic body,
Would it be sacrilege to open up this part? 🤔 - Spoiler: I already did 😝. You'll have to wait for microscope pictures though. 😁 . . . . . #ComponentsCloseUp #electricalengineering #electronicsengineering #electricalengineer #gold #electroniccompon
🔬Microscope Automation Update 12 ⚙ - More progress is being made on the #AutoMicroXYZ project. I’ve gone through a few iterations of the mount that I will use to attach the stepper motors to the microscope. I’ll try to explain my approac
🔬Microscope Automation Update 11 ⚙ - So much to talk about, so little time! - First off, I came up with a name for this project; it will hereby be known as #AutoMicroXYZ . This name comes from AUTOmatic MICROscope, and the XYZ are the directions I&r
New drop of free-to-use wallpapers on my website! - Link to my website is on my bio. If you are having trouble downloading them on your device, check out my saved story on my profile for some maybe helpful instructions. - I think there are some reall
As promised, here are the microscopic photos 😁 - #ComponentsCloseUp No. 197: 12 Bit Hybrid ADC, part 2 - *** Quick Facts! *** Manufacturer: Micro Networks Part Number: MN5240 -  If you missed the first post, all you need to do is click this has

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