The Ware for May 2013 is a special guest ware hosted by my friends at Evil Mad Scientist, purveyors of fine electronic curios, such as the Eggbot, the clever bulbdial clock, and a wall-sized version of Conway’s Game of Life.
When I was visiting their shop in Sunnyvale sometime last year, Windell showed me this curious ware. It was one of the most fabulously constructed circuit boards I had ever seen, and I asked if he wouldn’t mind sharing it as a guest ware for my blog. Please check out his site for more photos! I’ll be checking comments posted both at Evil Mad Scientist and here for winners.
That is an absolutely beautiful piece of engineering.
The pseudo footprint looking features are confounding, especially considering they’re mostly covered in resist.
My guess is that this is a development/breakout board for some multi-die IC. It looks as if dies can be flipped and bonded straight to the flex.
Minor typo: it’s “Conway”, not “Conrad”.
good catch.
“Pig” wafer for semiconductor equipment testing/process monitoring? Send it through, it measures things, data read out at probe station?
Found, this is a VAX9000 HDSC
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2013/may-ware-winne/
Reminds me and older ware!
Hi Bonnie,
As a consultant, I am researching on how “maker” changes the world, and how future cities capture/incubate this rising opportunity. Wonder if we could connect to get your thoughts? Thanks.
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