Technically it's not a "toy", it's a "tool", lol. A fairly expensive one.
An LXF-50W "Fiber" laser engraving station, along with a variety of task-specific accessories.
We'll be using it (mostly) to print/burn certain kinds of circuit patterns into certain kinds of parts.
I don't get to play with this laser a whole lot. But I'm looking forward to "cleaning" parts and packages very quickly and very efficiently - with no more messy acid etches or frustrating mechanical subtraction/abrasion in the workshop. This laser can "de-lid" ceramic packages perfectly every time with a process similar to
this. It can even "strip" silicon circuit lithography down one layer at a time with finer than 250nm depth resolution. It's fairly state of the art, but there are of course superior tools of this sort available for companies who really need them.
Just thought the potential (and real) applications for these sorts of tools - for semiconductor lithography inspection/analysis/repair/modification, for NVRAM and RAM data recovery, etc - would be interesting to some ROG folks.
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