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title: Chips
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type: Chip
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description: This is the description
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image: https://placehold.co/600x400
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usage: Being a black boxed monolith
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whereToFind: Everywhere!
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alsoKnownAs: "Chip, IC, Intergrated Circuit, DIP CHIP"
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Typically, when checking out a PCB, I will immidiatly check all IC, or "Intergrated Circuits", by putting the part number in an online search engine. There are a few I'm always looking for as they are commonly used in the building of simple synthesizers, and these are **Op-Amps** and **CMOS logic chips**. Additionally, you could be lucky and discover a microcontroller, allowing you to flash your own program. To my surprise I found a microcontroller in a LED lamp, but I haven't managed to figure it out yet.
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## The difficulty of prototyping with IC's
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Not only are loads of schematics published online based around (oddly specific) IC's, they tend to break very fast. The number of times I've accidently put a chip in upside down, causing the + and - to be flipped, and burning out the chip within seconds. In a world of plenty you'd just replace the chip with a new one, but in the reality of working with salvaged hardware, this is not that easy.
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## Tiny transistors
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<ins>Materiality of chips, remainders of IC development</ins>
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en
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<ins>the chip shortage during corona</ins>
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