Mastodawn

It's getting rather depressing that lately any time someone posts about their cool new project all I can think is "neat, but is it AI slop?", and the answer is usually "yes". 😔

miek Feb 24

tnt Feb 24

If you're a swiss resident ( or know one ... ) you can get a custom hardware design onto an ASIC for FREE !!!

You get back one chip with your design (and a bunch of others!) and some board to help bring up/testing.

Also, this is "resident", no need to be a student or at uni or anything, you just need a valid Swiss address ...

I know I might be repeating myself here because I mentioned it a few month back but this bear repeating IMHO.

https://swisschips.ethz.ch/news-and-events/tiny-tapeout-submission-form.html

PS: Can I haz boost for reach ?

Tiny Tapeout Submission Form: for shuttles & workshops

SwissChips

miek Feb 23

little distraction during PCB assembly: WLCSP audio codec looked cool so I had to stop and get some microscope photos

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miek Feb 21

In the wide shot of it, it looks like there were some other designs on the wafer that were sliced through to cut this one out. (or maybe just test patterns?)

miek Feb 21

Here's a die shot of an RF MOSFET I fried. It's supposedly a Motorola RD01MUS1 (but could be a clone/fake).

I don't have (or want!) the chemicals to de-cap it properly so I tried the method of overheating the package & cracking it apart with pliers to pop out the die. Aside from a bit of epoxy still stuck to it, it worked out pretty well!

miek Feb 19

Windy city Feb 18

I'm so tired. People, I am not interested in reading *blogs* generated with claude, gemini or chatgpt. No, not even ones proofread by AI. Do it yourself. I do not wish to even accidentally click on "one-shotted" dummy projects. Don't show me your AI-generated analysis of anything. Above all, I do not wish to see images/artwork someone prompt created.

I value real content, with all its good and bad quirks, from actual human beings.

Somebody please normalize auto-tagging of AI generated content across all formats - text, images and code so I can blanket ban them from my personal computer.

This is a plead for help I never thought I'll have to make.

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