Want to know what a CPU looks like IRL?

[deadman1]

Then take a look here:

http://www.sciencystuff.com/

[fragger]

Man, that's incredible :o

Thanks deadman, excellent find! I love that sort of stuff :-X

[Dweller_Benthos]

Pretty cool, must be nice to have an electron microscope hanging around to do that sort of thing.

[PZ]

Looks great  :-X

One of the graduate courses I completed decades ago was a hands-on lab focused on the SEM (scanning electron microscope).  The technology at the time was to take any tiny object you wanted to observe, coat it with gold, and then scan it using the SEM.  The device shoots an electron stream at the gold-coated object, and the reflected electrons are collected and processed to produce the image.  Although it was a bit tricky to sputter coat biological living objects (they tended to explode in the sputter coater), I threw an ant into the system and managed to achieve acceptable results  >:D

[Art Blade]

PZ: :-()

Deadman: wow. Nice find. Even before reading the post and before seeing who posted it, I already guessed it would be you. Thanks for yet another interesting contribution and for continuously doing that kind of thing.. it is worth a thumbs-up in my book  ;D :-X Cheers, mate :)

[deadman1]

Deadman: wow. Nice find. Even before reading the post and before seeing who posted it, I already guessed it would be you. Thanks for yet another interesting contribution and for continuously doing that kind of thing.. it is worth a thumbs-up in my book  ;D :-X Cheers, mate :)

Really? Just out of curiosity, why did you think that? And thanks for the thumbs-up  :)

[Art Blade]

just by reading the subject.. it's kind of "your style"  :) And you're welcome  :)

[mmosu]

Whoa, that's cool  :o  Nanotech at it's best  :-X

Pretty cool, must be nice to have an electron microscope hanging around to do that sort of thing.

D_B, I was kind of thinking the same thing  :-D