bunnieFound a method to see inside some chips, without having to unmount or destroy the chips.
Best part - the method only relies on lightly modded off-the-shelf cameras and lenses.
Read more at https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6712
Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant@bunnie I wonder if the Raspberry Pi No-IR camera would work here as a cheap imaging device that comes without an IR filter.
@thejpster could be! most sensors I've tried have "enough" sensitivity at 1050nm. You can get around sensitivity issues partially by allowing the exposure to run longer, although that eventually gets limited by the dark current of the sensor. Alternatively, you can crank up the intensity of the illuminator...and at 1050nm you can get some impressively bright LEDs.
@bunnie might be worth a note to anyone looking to have a go - look after your eyes. If there’s little/no visible light coming off them you won’t have the “ah s… that’s bright” reflex to make you look away and you can seriously damage your eyes. When I built a high power bench top IR LED control system I was only allowed to test with one fitted with red LEDs :/