Andyydna
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
David Andersen@bunnie That's very fun, Bunnie - thanks for sharing and kudos on a cool result!
I wonder how much extra image quality you could get on the cheap by using image stacking, either for HDR or superresolution or both. (Even without going all the way to varying the angle of incidence).
@dave_andersen I think there's a ton of room for improvement -- these are pretty much raw frames at the moment with minimal touch-up!
Nathan Parker 
@dave_andersen @bunnie This is cool. Re: image stacking, it reminds me of what @lcamtuf has done, like https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/photographing-small-things
Photographing small things
Experience and hubris walk hand in hand. I’m a long-time photographer, and when I come across a nice photo, you can usually catch me mumbling to myself. “Ah yes, excellent. I could’ve done that with ease.” Most of my photography isn’t utilitarian, but I also illustrate my own writings; for a recent example, see
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 :/
グレェ「grey」@bunnie Ah, groovy!
I'm grateful to have found you on ActivityPub/the FediVerse finally too!
myrmepropagandist
…might work for coffee…@futurebird @bunnie
InfraRed. Not every Wavelength (Lightcolor) behaves the same with every Material :)
Pretty cool.
René Mayrhofer 
🇺🇦@bunnie Wow - this is an amazing technique. Thanks for sharing on that level of detail!
S T E L L A R 
@bunnie X rays?
phryk 🏴@bunnie You mean to tell me it's now possible to reverse engineer chips without crazy equipment like an electron microscope? That's pretty fuckin' amazing.
thinkberg
Matthew Skelton@bunnie that is so, so awesome 🤩 Thanks for sharing.
Christian Berger DECT 2763@bunnie Nifty, but the countermeasures are obvious, just use a case that's non-transparent to infrared.
Simon Zerafa
Karl@bunnie Impressive work.
Andrew Bennett
Martin Schobert@bunnie Very cool work!
Led By Gilded Fools@bunnie Thanks! Will be investigating whether this imaging technique will work for chip level failure analysis.
Phogna Bologna@bunnie but can it distinguish between the sour cream and onion?