There’s no level in denying it — if you happen to’re an ordinary reader of Hackaday, you’ve nearly unquestionably were given a favourite chip. Some within the target market yearn for the better days of the 6502, whilst others spend their days hacking on fashionable microcontrollers just like the ESP32 or RP2040. There are even a few of you in the market nonetheless attaining for the vintage 555. No matter your silicon poison, there’s a superb opportunity the Macrochips venture from [Jason Coon] has supersized it for you.
The speculation is inconspicuous: get an ordinary 100 mm x 100 mm (4″ x 4″) slate coaster, throw it for your laser engraver of selection, and zap it with a reproduction of a chip’s label. The laser turns the slate a gentle grey, which, when contrasted with the herbal colour of the slate, makes for a reasonably shut approximation of what the true factor seems like. Up to now, [Jason] has given greater than 140 vintage and fashionable chips the slate remedy. Although he’s simplest supplied the SVGs for a handful of them, we’re lovely certain somebody with a laser at house may have the considered necessary talents to tug this off with none out of doors help.
The web page credit a put up from [arturo182] for the theory (Nitter), which identified a slate RP2040 hiding out at the nook of [Graham Sanderson]’s table again in 2021. We simply become acutely aware of the craze when [Jason] posted his freshly engraved RP1 on Mastodon in honor of the discharge of the Raspberry Pi 5.
