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Back in my day we used glass fuses. Sometimes the glass broke and your fingers got cut...that's the way it was and we liked it! (obscure Dana Carvey reference if anybody gets it).
An old mouse opened up to show the circuit board.
With light coming through this part, I was reminded of a boxer!
Probably the first true 1:1 macro I have produced, with the focus set manually, and the subject moved into focus.
Macro Mondays "Inside Electronics"
The #MacroMondays #InsideElectronics theme
I'm indebted to my dear wife for providing the trip hazard across our living room and to number two child for blundering into it. This is the price paid by the USB plug on the end of the cable which was ripped from the small fan it was powering. At least it resolved this weeks Macro Monday quandary.
The subject was window lit, taken as shown using 68mm of extension tubes. Lightroom was used to play with highlights and shadows. Photoshop handled the colour popping.
HMM all.
My son's iphone's camera stopped working. We were about to get him a new one when I remembered we had an old UK one from before we moved to US. Therefore armed with YouTube and a set of DIY tools I set out to replace the camera. Things didn't go too well and this snapped off piece is the motor that causes a phone to vibrate. Still had fun trying to do this, but way too small and fiddly for a successful outcome. Oh, well....HMM!
Submitted to Macro Mondays on the theme "Inside electronic"
This is a part of the circuit board of a disused router.
Opened up my old first PC removed the cooling fan and processor to see what would happen, did shot where the one leg of the cooling fan bolted to the mother board, follow the map to the white rabbit ;o) go ask Alice.
Thought these worked really well in high-contrast black and white. Bit more interesting, somehow, than the colour versions.
Circuit board from a multi card reader.
Complete with fingerprint of the person who assembled it.
(Identified as a wanted criminal ,and now in prison. Only joking😃 -they escaped)
Taken for group "Macro Monday" theme "Inside Electronics"
This is the underside of a graphics card. Taken with a 50mm lens and extension tube. I tried 105mm and 85mm lenses and varying the number of extension tubes. Settled on the 50mm lens with 1 tube. I also tried different ways of lighting it. This was lit with sunlight from above and a LED video light wrapped in blue plastic as a side light.
Explored July 8th 2018 #13
This is from a DVD writer.
To give you an idea of the scale: this board is 1mm thick, 12mm from front to back and 17mm from side to side. A focus stack of 16 shots using Zerene Stacker.
I did some research - the chip on the right (INIC-1609P) is a USB 2.0 to SATA Bridge Controller IC. The capacitors on the left are made from small pieces of butterscotch.
July 2, 2018
(a "MacroMondays" submission, theme "Inside Electronics" HMM!)
A detail photo of the inside of my Canon 7D camera, showing the base plate removed and a loose screw wedged down within the circuitry of the camera. Apparently, this is a common problem with Canon 7Ds. Where this particular screw wriggles out on its own, and can cause a short circuit. The short circuit causes the camera to give you an error; "Camera cannot communicate with battery."
After fishing the screw out, I put the camera back together, turned it on, and miraculously, NO ERROR!! It worked! Wow! If I had sent it to Canon, they would have charged me the $299 minimum for the repair.
So, thank you to the guy that figured this out. Below is a link to his video. (It's not an undertaking for the faint of heart, but if you get that error and you're up for it, you might be able to save yourself a few bucks!!)
(See photo 1 of 2 for the first part of this story...)
Canon 7D Cannot communicate with battery.
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