✧✦Catherine✦✧thesis: being able to place circuit probes on a PCB is a fundamentally predatory action (it relies on a large area of stereopsis)
Abhijit Menon-Sen@whitequark Aha! Were those clip-on things that I was trying to figure out from the Glasgow Interface Explorer video "circuit probes"?
@amenonsen which ones
@whitequark These yellow/white/purple/blue things that seem to be clipped on to individual IC pins.
@amenonsen that's a type of probe; I was thinking of these ones which require even more depth perception
chrisgj198@whitequark @amenonsen Annoyingly, the microscpoe I used to use for probing chips was not stereoscopic, and the probes would be destroyed by lowering them too far by more than a few microns. I used to focus on the probe tip, then repeatedly {move the microscope focus down closer to the chip, move the probe down into focus}, so I could stop when the chip was in focus and would not overshoot with the probe.
@chrisgj198 @whitequark Apex predator problems.
@amenonsen @whitequark The fact that I was on the probe station usually meant I had screwed up and would need at least new metal masks, so did not really feel like an apex predator in that moment.
Ignas Kiela@whitequark I wondered whether artificially increasing it would help, but at least for flying it seems like no https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-07862-002
(also found out about stereo microscopes (not binocular!) and am wondeeing how much of an improvement for working with electronic ot would be)
(also found out about stereo microscopes (not binocular!) and am wondeeing how much of an improvement for working with electronic ot would be)