✧✦Catherine✦✧Mar 9
thesis: being able to place circuit probes on a PCB is a fundamentally predatory action (it relies on a large area of stereopsis)
Show threadAbhijit Menon-SenMar 9
@whitequark Aha! Were those clip-on things that I was trying to figure out from the Glasgow Interface Explorer video "circuit probes"?
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Mar 9
@amenonsen which ones
Show threadAbhijit Menon-SenMar 9
@whitequark These yellow/white/purple/blue things that seem to be clipped on to individual IC pins.
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧Mar 9
@amenonsen that's a type of probe; I was thinking of these ones which require even more depth perception
Show threadchrisgj198
@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.
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Show threadAbhijit Menon-SenMar 9
@chrisgj198 @whitequark Apex predator problems.
Show threadchrisgj198Mar 9
@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.