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This teardown is great!

At my work, we have an X-ray machine for PCB reverse engineering. On Fridays we throw in random stuff from around the office, and sometimes make videos about what we find inside.

A few weeks ago we released an X-ray teardown of several other, older chargers. Very interesting to compare with these fancy new ones!

https://youtu.be/4h4qabPsPfI



Ha! I laughed at the "my left ear enjoyed it" comment.

Note that the audio mix for the microphone fell in the left channel only.

Apart from that, interesting images!


I'll let the right people know, thanks to you and the YouTube commenter!

What a funny, positive way to point out our error.


The right and left people should probably work together in future ;)


Might be a lesson for us all.


I guess that it was edited with the laptop speakers, instead of headphones, and that's why it wasn't noticed. No worries, it can happen!


Here is the other video we've released so far if anyone is curious:

https://youtu.be/z09X_ZnAcLs

Happy to take recommendations for other stuff to drop in there and film!

Also if this sounds cool to you, we're hiring US citizens.

https://redballoonsecurity.com/company/careers/


> At my work, we have an X-ray machine for PCB reverse engineering.

Curious, does this machine get past the top copper layer?


Would a CT scanner work better for your use case? (ignoring cost)


A high res 2D X-ray is preferable for a PCB, which is nearly a 2D rectangle itself.


don't those have giant magnets....


That'd be an MRI.

A CT is, simplifying, an x-ray machine that takes lots of images in slices, then analyze them with certain algorithms to reconstruct 2D and 3D images of the interior of the 'subject'.


Well, not really in slices, but from all angles. So with a computer you can reconstruct the density of whatever you're imaging and also do the slices


Yeah true, I was still half asleep and couldn't explain further. It's more like you image from lots of different viewpoints, then calculate a slice, then join the slices to form a volume.

It's better explained visually (at least to me) :P




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