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You guys never stay after hours and print crazy LEDs just for personal projects? C'mon now.
by r0s 13y ago
You guys never stay after hours and print crazy LEDs just for personal projects? C'mon now.
- MarkSweep 13y agoI hooked up a Xbox 360 controller to our wafer handling robot for fun.
- solistice 13y agoHow involved was that? Was the some kind of I/O protocol or were the buttons simply broken out?
- skrebbel 13y agoWe would, had we not needed 10-ish other machines to complete the process. Our machine only does the 'difficult' part (lithography), not all the nasty chemistry parts. Admittedly, this means that my description of what the machine does was cutting some corners. Ridiculously many, actually, but ok :)
- samatman 13y agoYou build a Z axis with angstrom steps? ...I cannot begin to imagine what's involved in vibration control.
- chm 13y agohttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007850607623622 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007850607... http://www.optodyne.com/opnew5/TecArt/tech13.pdf http://www.optodyne.com/opnew5/TecArt/tech13.pdf
- skrebbel 13y agoNot even close. We're building an "easy" machine, which can do about 1 micrometer precision. 1 km from where I work, there's ASML, the world's de-facto monopolist in high-end lithography. Most chips in your phone come from their machines. They're going towards the angstrom pretty fast, but they also need 500x the amount of engineers (and a frighteningly enormous pile of legacy code) to do that.