The Glade 4.0

Last night, we blew up several of these:



We thought they were these:



My crew weren't the only ones, either. After years of use in the lab, many of the chips are worn and faded. It's hard to read the printing on them to determine what they are. We were instructed that any chip with fourteen pins should work. This was bad advice.

There was blue smoke being let out of the case, burnt electrical smells, and little pieces of plastic flying through the air and hitting the guy at the next lab station in the head. It was good times. Would do again! I could do without the frustration of rewiring the board three times, though.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Haha awesome!

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So, any chip with fourteen pins is a hex inverter?

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In time, this too shall pass.

Good old DIPs. I accidentally installed a DIP BIOS chip backwards once. This, too, let out the magic smoke.

Ahhhhh, there's nothing like that smell. Smells like cancer.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Coolest popping of a chip I ever did caused two bright sparks to spiral upwards for about three feet like they were filing the outline of a DNA helix.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

We were going for quantity over quality.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.