i found a Probe Board / Card, and its beautiful!

[quagmier]

Hi Rinoa. That is the most beautiful piece of electronics that I have ever seen. Turning it into a clock would make a perfect way to celebrate 50 thousand subscribers when it happens in the near future.

[jlof]

I currently work on these at a semiconductor company. This is a cantilever (the probes or "finger" things u said) probe card made by SV probe, which is the company I had worked at. The probes are manually placed into the white ceramic and epoxy ring then it is set into the board. The wires are than manually soldered to the traces which connect the edge traces. The probe card tests a wafer (chips before they are cut out and put onto a package) at final test for reliability.

I say fir thirty dollars is a good price. A brand new probe card such as this size runs around $15, 000.00 to $60, 000.00 when in use. This is obviously a very old one and is no longer needed to test a certain device (chip). FYI, we have to manually adjust and repair these probes when they are damaged under a microscope.

[BobbyW]

One of your best videos ever. Very educational. Thanks

[ThriftStoreHacker]

that is awesome. I may need to take a drive to check out some of the cool surplus stores you go to.

[MTODbasics]

Had no knowledge of these things until now, thanks for sharing. And a clock would be a cool way to utilize it. Great video.

[wantmp]

It is beautiful. Thanks for showing. I used a wafer tester probe board at my old job. It only had about 20 pins and cost many thousands to make. It was hand wired. These are usually used to test the dies on the uncut wafers, and then mark the bad ones before the wafer is diced up, so they only continue the packaging steps with good chips.

[smallenginedude]

That is awesome! I have never seen or even heard of anything like it. Great video

[DeathbyDusk]

At times I wish I lived in Cali for this stuff, but if I did move there, I would miss out on the older stuff around here, like turn of the century tools and such which are somewhat common finds. That would make a lovely clock, though I would avoid anything near the fingers, since they can break off and fall apart from even the most gentle touch.

[pghcosta]

the probe board looks like a jewel of computer science, besides that it's a thing that has gold on it's circuit board trace (PCB).

[roderickroderick]

Finally. Something that you couldn't pass up, that I also would not have been able to pass up....
Nice find.

[kristy]

Can you do a workshop tour and what are you going to do under the house in that vent thing

[JAYZWORKSHOP]

Look great just mounted on the wall, nice one.

[the_real_foamidable]

Its a beauty! The clock idea is cool, but to NOT destroy it you could put a strip of ws2812 leds on the outside and color code the second, minute and hour position.

[chethankumarl]

Hi, For those who dont know what it is and what it is used for. It's a probe card which is used to test the silicon die inside a microchip in automated test equipment. The wires u are seeing are probe needles which touch the die contact pads. Its a piece of art which takes lot of hardwork to design it. The hols which u are seeing are the mounting holes using which the pcb is mounted on to the metal frame. This pcb has atleast 30 layers or even more.

[glenwarren]

I dont know what the other one your friend has looks like but thats the coolest sht I ever seen. Very nice as is.

[carstenrich]

Hello Rinoa Awesome find! My suggestion is arrange diodes around the probe board in a 3D printed thing that holds the board and maybe even with some sort of glass over the board to protect it then you can put an arduino as a clock underneath that way you will have the board intakt for the years to come and a fine clock or messenger board (your subscriptions live count as an example) ! Thanks for the vlogs I like your enthusiasm!

[DeckardCain]

OMG what a good video.. I wish there were more people like you making videos the way you do. Thanks

[AlanLifeson]

it's a very nice item just to display on a wall, maybe in a frame with some lighting. SV Probe is the manufacturer and the item is a cantilever probe card and is used for logic testing microchips.

[devjock]

pin 43 on the inside ring, that's a cold solder joint right there..

Kidding ofcourse, what a stunning looker! That's an amazing bargain, and an amazing piece of art!

[MyPlayHouse]

HI
I think I would just frame it and put it on the wall.