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X-Ray Fans only: Latest arrivals in Fraser's lab - Large Wi-Fi X-Ray plates :)

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SeanB:
Looks like each one was an hour's production from Kemet in tantalum caps though, they really wanted low ripple on the supply lines there.

yada:
How much engineering do you have to know before you can even attempt tackling getting the images off those assuming they still work? Could a four year ee graduate do it? I often take on projects where I find out, oh this easy or there is no way in hell I'm going to figure this out. Makes for a lot of spare parts I'll never use. I'm still trying to find that in between state, but its like science articles on the internet: they are so dumbed down you learn nothing or its a 40 page dissertation with math that goes way over my head. Where are the articles for moderately smart people?

mikeselectricstuff:
It depends. Maybe some poking the ethernet might get a response.
One thought was that if these are set up to switch on and take an image (triggered by x-ray detection) without having previously talked to anything to 'arm' it, then it might be feasible to tap off the datastream from the ADCs as they read the data into internal memory.
Maybe it saves files to the internal RAM of Flash that are read out with some standard protocol.
There may also be some sort of test interface over telnet etc.
And I bet there's a UART on the accessible connector.

Wishful thinking maybe, but plausible I think.

bktemp:
It looks like the wifi module is connected via usb. Maybe the main cpu is running linux.
There is probably a uart connected to some testpads, or even a debugging connector with access to the linux shell.

Fraser:
Mike,

Excellent. I am pleased you found your way into the Samsung.

Of the two makes of plate, I preferred the Canon type.

Regarding the red glass vials. it might be worth X-Ray imaging them

DR plates are often registered onto the host PC using some sort of ID reader. The Canon plates use IRDA for this, Samsung may have used RFID. those vials certainly look like the RFID tags I have used in the past.

from memory all of the plates were wired or Wireless in order to meet a customers needs. They could be read over Wi-Fi or via a docking station under the PC.

Fraser

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