Modded Electronic Art?

[CNe7532294]

I'm currently having fun posting this in a chatroom so I figured why not post here too.

Post any electronic art you have lying around or in your drive. Can also modify anything posted on here.

[CNe7532294]

Can be anything. From vintagetek.org

[NiHaoMike]

Since music is a form of art, how about music made with electronics that make sound as a side effect of their operation?

[CNe7532294]

@NiHaoMike

YES! I have one too. This may be well known by now though but it fits.

[T3sl4co1l]

The Encabulator comes to mind:



As for OC, this is rather old but sure why not,
https://www.seventransistorlabs.com/Images/SwMortor.jpg
and this may remind you of another picture,
https://www.seventransistorlabs.com/Images/TubeBabies.jpg

Tim

[NiHaoMike]

How about a case mod?

[Ampera]

I don't care what anybody says, the Pentium Pro is one of the craziest and coolest looking chips of all time:



The 4004, or pretty much any gold capped white ceramic package is just  .

[T3sl4co1l]

Pentium Pro looked just as good under the lid as outside.

Tim

[Cubdriver]

I don't care what anybody says, the Pentium Pro is one of the craziest and coolest looking chips of all time:



The 4004, or pretty much any gold capped white ceramic package is just  .

They are cool looking, but don't do well as pry points.  (It arrived like this; I know not to use ICs as fulcrums...)


The Motorola 68000 in the 64 pin CDIP is pretty impressive looking, too.


-Pat

[rdl]

This is an Intel promo item from the late 90s. I think they were a give away to the first people to respond to a magazine ad. I may have had to complete a survey or something. That was a while ago, so I could be wrong. It's supposedly an actual Pentium, but probably a QC reject. Quantities were probably limited to how many bad chips they had laying around.

[Bud]

The ADC chip in HP 8753C vector network analyzer.

[Ampera]

They are cool looking, but don't do well as pry points.  (It arrived like this; I know not to use ICs as fulcrums...)

The Motorola 68000 in the 64 pin CDIP is pretty impressive looking, too.

-Pat

That almost makes me want to cry. I've never seen an IC shatter like that though.

Anything purple ceramic or white ceramic is beautiful.

[Cubdriver]

They are cool looking, but don't do well as pry points.  (It arrived like this; I know not to use ICs as fulcrums...)

The Motorola 68000 in the 64 pin CDIP is pretty impressive looking, too.

-Pat

That almost makes me want to cry. I've never seen an IC shatter like that though.

Anything purple ceramic or white ceramic is beautiful.

Located where it was, someone must have pried against it. At first I was afraid it was some kind of unobtanium PROM, but fortunately it was only a lamp driver IC, and I was able to get a replacement for it. 

-Pat

[Bud]

I guess some sort of a co-processor from earlier times...

[@rt]

One of my next toys to arrive will be a pair of vintage gold 8 bit pics similar to the ones on the left.

[CNe7532294]

This thread is great. Keep up the great art.

The ADC chip in HP 8753C vector network analyzer.

Funny you should mention that unit given my first picture.

[b_force]

to be honest, I think engineering is even a form of art in general!

Because it still demands a lot of creativity with the tools, techniques and science we have at this moment.
It's only art that is more abstract and with a useful functionality most of the time.

[ebastler]

I guess some sort of a co-processor from earlier times...

Not quite...
https://www.idt.com/document/dst/713343-data-sheet

[Bud]

Intersting! I did not realize the graphics was IDT logo. Looks a high quality SRAM chip. Why would they put it in a socket?

[ebastler]

Intersting! I did not realize the graphics was IDT logo. Looks a high quality SRAM chip. Why would they put it in a socket?

I always found the logo quite clever, for a company named "Integrated Device Technology". 

Maybe the PGA package is not mainly meant for use in a socket in this case. I believe it was the first higher density package, pre-dating PLCC and BGAs. And they might just keep making them in that package, for backwards compatibility in mil spec applications.

[FrankBuss]

Someone did a clean PDF of this classic, the write-only-memory IC:

http://repeater-builder.com/molotora/gontor/25120-bw.pdf

And of course, there is a Wikipedia article about it.

[T3sl4co1l]

What

but why



what have I done

Tim

[lowimpedance]

Schematics can be art in themselves, particularly if drawn rather incomprehensibly ! just like the RACAL 9904 counter overall diagram below.
And yes I have one ,.........and I started my electronics career at RACAL , last century 
(I did make it a negative image. The online one is the usual)

[Bud]

Maybe the PGA package is not mainly meant for use in a socket in this case. I believe it was the first higher density package, pre-dating PLCC and BGAs. And they might just keep making them in that package, for backwards compatibility in mil spec applications.

Yep was socketed, came from this beast, coupled with TMS320 processors. Several of those beast boards were installed in a 19-inch 4U mainframe enclosure, and I bought the whole thing for $5 at a closing hamfest   
What was more valuable was the mainframe box with a set of quality 5'' fans, still hoping to reuse it for some cool ( ) project

[CJay]

80286 in the leadless ceramic package, like a sunburst...

I have, somewhere, a PLCC 44, ceramic/quartz glass EPROM based DSP from an ancient 3.5" IBM 1GB SCSI drive, the drive was knackered but the chip was just too pretty to dispose of (those drives were always a magical mystery tour, out of a stack of twenty for repair we'd find five or six different circuit board stacks)