I hereby reclaim this hideous enclosure

[bluebunny]

Marc, you lost me with the "club sandwich" reference....   

This. 

[EBK]

Marc, you lost me with the "club sandwich" reference....   

This. 

Thanks for clearing that up for me. 

[EBK]

Deep. 

Anyone else find themselves oddly compelled to decode the bands on the fastest swimmer?

[EATyourGuitar]

belden 22AWG solid tinned copper bus wire no jacket. available in all sizes.

www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Belden-Wire-Cable/8021-000100/

in addition to peter vogel there is also peter blacer

http://ciat-lonbarde.net/paper/

[EBK]

in addition to peter vogel there is also peter blacer

http://ciat-lonbarde.net/paper/

While we are including non-functional circuit art in the discussion, there's also Leonardo Ulian:


It's beautiful, but it makes me feel sad.  I could build so many pedals with all of those parts! 

[duck_arse]

Marc, you lost me with the "club sandwich" reference....   

I hope you weren't referring to the Urban Dictionary's definition of "club sandwich".
I guess that would blend right in in this thread anyway.... 

typical. I searched for club sandwich, and all the returns were sandwiches.

EBK's method has me thinking - DIYLC can do layouts without a board. and it can do (silly) 3d-ish layouts. so maybe if I did a cordwood without any boards ......

EBK - I can't imagine how you are clamping your parts for soldering. I can imagine the process in progress drives you mad. is there any chance you are putting knife-nicks in yr busbars at the points you want a component lead, and then wrapping around the nick, as an aid to non-movement-ing parts? somebody that really planned ahead carefully might do a layout, then measure off all the nick-points needed for the components before any soldering was done.

[EBK]

Planning ahead would help, but it can be maddening with 3D on paper, where I usually plan.  I actually was giving diylc another look this morning to see if it can run on Linux.  Looks like it can, so I'll have to install it and give it a go for future projects.

As far as the actual soldering here, I thought about wrapping the leads around to hold them, but I felt (perhaps incorrectly) that that would not look as good on this small, cramped scale.  Instead, I've been using two of those alligator clip stands to hold 3-4 different points still.  If I could find my poster putty, I would use some of that to create scaffolding, but alas, it is still in some moving box somewhere.  Gets a bit tricky when 4 parts share a node.

[duck_arse]

I do all my DIYLC on linux. I do everything on linux, what else is there?

[EBK]

I do all my DIYLC on linux. I do everything on linux, what else is there?

When Microsoft came up with Vista (a very unfamiliar-looking operating system incompatible with all my existing software), I decided to try out Linux (a very unfamiliar-looking operating system incompatible with all my existing software). Glad I did.   

[EBK]

I'll let you join me in astonishment over this circuit:

http://techno-logic-art.com/clock.htm

3 years to design and build
1161 diodes
340 transistors
346 resistors
60 LEDs
6 magnetic switches
3 dual digit displays
Every single part is necessary to the circuit's functionality.

[bluebunny]

^^^  http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=29816.0   

[EATyourGuitar]

While we are including non-functional circuit art in the discussion

did you even read the page I linked? there were no non-functional designs on peter blacer's page. all of them are working musical instruments or sound generating interactive sculpture. to insinuate that peter blacer is just jerking us off would be correct but he is not that overt.

[EBK]

While we are including non-functional circuit art in the discussion

did you even read the page I linked? there were no non-functional designs on peter blacer's page. all of them are working musical instruments or sound generating interactive sculpture. to insinuate that peter blacer is just jerking us off would be correct but he is not that overt.

Sorry, I only assumed the Christmas ornament itself (corresponding to your embedded pic) was non-functional and was merely built out of the (previously-functional) prototype circuit (the heavier copper wire he added to remount it after dissolving the paper apparently shorts all the outside traces) -- I may be wrong about that.  I didn't intend to suggest that nothing on that page was functional.  I needed a segue to the Ulian pics, and I worded it poorly.  I apologize for the dismissive tone of my previous reply. 

Blacer's work is very organic and leaflike.  The ornament reminded me of a leaf skeleton, which is pretty cool.

[EBK]

Lest our art appreciation detour become too high brow for this thread, here is some circuit art slightly closer to the other end of the spectrum:

microscopic image of the Playboy bunny found on an integrated circuit manufactured by
Edit (spelling): Siemens

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/bunny.html

[duck_arse]

Lest our art appreciation detour become too high brow for this thread, here is some circuit art slightly closer to the other end of the spectrum:

microscopic image of the Playboy bunny found on an integrated circuit manufactured by
Edit (spelling): Siemens

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/bunny.html

I wonder if that chip had any bugs.

[amptramp]

Lest our art appreciation detour become too high brow for this thread, here is some circuit art slightly closer to the other end of the spectrum:

microscopic image of the Playboy bunny found on an integrated circuit manufactured by
Edit (spelling): Siemens

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/bunny.html

I wonder if that chip had any bugs.

The computer it went into caught a virus.

[bluebunny]

Cousin.  Just sayin'...   

[duck_arse]

Lest our art appreciation detour become too high brow for this thread, here is some circuit art slightly closer to the other end of the spectrum:

microscopic image of the Playboy bunny found on an integrated circuit manufactured by
Edit (spelling): Siemens

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/bunny.html

by now, you people know how these things tend to bother me .....

One of America's favorite icons, the Playboy bunny, was discovered on an integrated circuit made in Germany by Siemens.

.... so again I ask - what were they looking for? who looks at chips under an SEM? how many chips do they look at, just to find a funny? and how do they get the black epoxy off?

[EBK]

.... so again I ask - what were they looking for? who looks at chips under an SEM? how many chips do they look at, just to find a funny? and how do they get the black epoxy off?

As to what they are looking for, take a look at techinsights.com, the website of a company that does this kind of work.  Their stated mission is "to provide advanced reverse engineering services to companies seeking to grow the potential of their intellectual property."
In other words, if you pay them money, they will help you steal your competitor's ideas.   . For the right price, they claim they can produce precise and accurate circuit schematics doing this!

While thoroughly scouring the iPhone 7 for it's technology secrets, they discovered an image of the Starship Enterprise on the ambient light sensor: http://www.techinsights.com/about-techinsights/overview/blog/stmicroelectronics-time-of-flight-sensors-and-the-starship-enterprise/

So, the people who find these are not specifically looking for funny stuff, but if it is in a chip/system that generates enough interest, they will find it.

As to how they are able to, technically speaking, get inside the chips, I imagine their answer is something like, "It's quite simple, really.  Money flows from you to me, and the insides of the chip flow from me to you."

[deadastronaut]

wheres this reclaimed enclosure then?...been waiting on this...

quick as you like..