@NanoRaptor what about a sphere ?

@NanoRaptor I really love ho the rightmost pin in the ahem photo is already bent substantially. Very good photography, very lifelike.

@NanoRaptor Very Amiga 600 -esque

@NanoRaptor Is BGA package-on-package still a thing?

@NanoRaptor I assume the top pins are connected with flat ribbon cables, to get out of the way of the cooling solution?

@NanoRaptor Please don't make me add that package to KiCad (paging @cccpresser lol)

@NanoRaptor "It was scary stuff, radically advanced. It was shattered... didn't work. But it gave us ideas. It took us in new directions... things we would never have thought of. All this work is based on it."

@NanoRaptor alt text pls so i can retoot 😭

@NanoRaptor also finding it when you drop it on the floor.

@NanoRaptor do you put that in a motherbourbon?

@NanoRaptor Plus, lends itself to good thermal management designs. Could be the next big thing!

@NanoRaptor Now do the socket for this. :)

@NanoRaptor
Counting pins has never been easier.

@NanoRaptor & Knuckles

@NanoRaptor TIL that straightening a bent pin is very hard even in Photoshop

@NanoRaptor This is next level lego brick…

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@NanoRaptor Another way could be to replace the pins with tiny headphone jacks. You could triple the effective pin count!

@NanoRaptor * Only supported in logicboards with Panini-style sockets.

@NanoRaptor The A-Side gets you normal processor behavior.
The B-Side remixes the instruction set and features new creative or experimental instructions.

@NanoRaptor I finally understand what a "flip chip" is!

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DEC tried the equivalent for board edge connectors:
the PDP-6's ALU was Bit Sliced. Each slice board had 4 sets of edge connector finger contacts.
2 sets went into the rigid bus backplane.
2 more sets on opposite end of board were jumpered by a flexible wire bus with 9 or more connectors, which prevented the simple board swap diagnostics practice by DEC Field Circushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-6#Hardware