{"id":13898,"date":"2017-04-10T22:12:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T22:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/more-rainbows-from-silicon-chips\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T10:44:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T14:44:16","slug":"more-rainbows-from-silicon-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/more-rainbows-from-silicon-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"More rainbows from silicon chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BSulWGWB8z6z96e8b7wO7RP8L-2nVqvl3_0xIw0\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"insta-image\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1491876764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picked up at <a href=\"https:\/\/hacklab.to\/archives\/junk-independence-day-april-9th\/\">Junk Independence Day<\/a>, these are unencapsulated silicon chips. You can make out the solder pads around the top edges, and I think the two solid blocks are PROM storage. The chips are supposedly <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mosel-MS1002-Speech_Synth.pdf\">Mosel MSS1002-14T speech generator ROM<\/a>s from 1991.<\/p>\n<p>To give an idea of scale, the outside walls of each cell are 3.8 mm \/ 0.15\u00ca\u00ba.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another photo, taken through a very cheap 8\u00c3\u2014 loupe with a cellphone camera:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Silicon Rainbow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scruss\/33787089402\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/708\/33787089402_6675a61980_c.jpg\" alt=\"Silicon Rainbow\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More rainbows from silicon chips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[1978,2687,3051,2081,3050],"class_list":["post-13898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","tag-flickr","tag-instagram","tag-microscope","tag-pretty","tag-silicon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1491876764.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-3Ca","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13904,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions\/13904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}