Did you know you can X-ray PCBs at home by disassembling your microwave and...

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

Did you know you can X-ray PCBs at home by disassembling your microwave and...

okay this is just a flatbed scanner with a bright light source above it, but it looks neat.

#retrocomputing

[foone@digipres.club]

@gloriouscow wow, works surprisingly well

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@foone you can resolve the top traces a little better if the light source is closer, but any direct line of sight between the CIS and the light source makes it very angry

I may have actually damaged my scanner but whatever

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@foone pro strats - move the light source along with the sensor bar as it moves?

[foone@digipres.club]

@gloriouscow that'd be neat... I'm trying to think of ways to hack that together.

My worst idea: just get two scanners, one on top and one on bottom, and synchronize when they scan.

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@foone that's someone's fetish

[foone@digipres.club]

@gloriouscow yeah, but what isn't?

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@gloriouscow inner copper planes may have upsides, but they ruined the esthetics