“I love looking at PCBs (printed circuit boards) using x-rays. Great for failure analysis. One of the coolest things, I thought, was seeing a PCB tilt in real-time; you get a good sense of the actual spacial relationship between all the layers on a PCB. I took a series of stills today and strung them together into this animation so I could share the experience with you…”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Malware Hijacks Windows Update @ Slashdot
- Linus Torvalds on Microsoft patent threat: It works both ways @ Ars Technica
- Moving from Open Source to Open Data @ Ars Technica
- Intel to showcase Harpertown at Computex 2007 @ DigiTimes
- RyderMark Beta 2 Preview – Emerging competition for Futuremark? @ TweakTown
- Why Open Source Software is Not Good Enough @ OSWeekly
- MS Exchange Alternative: Moving At the Speed of Stupidity? @ MadPenguin
- WWDC ’07: Exciting? @ OSWeekly
- MSI PC2008 in Taipei Event – Exclusive (Part 2: Upcoming Santa Rosa NB) @ TweakTown
- Is Dell Good For Ubuntu? @ XYZ Computing
- What Happened To XGI Graphics? @ Phoronix
- ED#46 : ATI Caught With Their Pants Down @ TechARP
- Cooler Master Centurion 534 Contest @ Overclockers Online
The visible PCB
Hopefully this doesn’t catch on as the newest procedure that must be completed before you are allowed to RMA a motherboard, because I don’t think my dentist would let me use hers. MAKE:Blog has linked to an animated X-Ray of a PCB, allowing you to see right inside the world below the tracings on the surface. It really gives you an idea how 3 dimensional the circuitry is.