Eco-Friendly, Geeky Thumb Tack Board of Awesomeness

trying to out-geek people at the office, while still being green?
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This Instructable will show you how to build thumb tacks out of microchips. I got the idea when searching through junk during Spring Cleaning, and happened to come across a pack of computer chips. They were stuck in this foam-like substance to keep the pins straight. it reminded me of cork board. I later experimented with putting the chips straight into the corkboard, without a thumb tack glued to the back, and it bent the pins. which brings us to this idea.

This Instructable is in the Earthjustice United States of Efficiency Contest, so please vote.

Step 1 Materials

for this Instructable, you will need:

1) 2 pairs of pliers (one has to be able to cut)
2) a thumb tack
3) super glue or Instant krazy glue
4) computer chip

Comments

[Tyreth]

Hey it's your cousin Joey saying that I have no idea how to vote for you but if I can't vote just know I would have voted for you. I'll email you so if you see this and haven't checked your email.

[kelseymh]

By the way, this I'ble isn't part of the Epilog challenge, apparently. At least, it doesn't have the usual contest banner up at the top. I also just checked the current entries for the contest and don't see it there. Just FYI.

[your dog]

It says it takes up to 48 hours, and I made this Instructable on April 10, 2009 But your right, I should have waited for the instructable to be entered in the contest

[kelseymh]

I guess it didn't occur to you to type the chip number in to Google.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22QS8886-20P%22&btnG=Search

The very first hit tells you it's TTL-compatible static RAM, and the contents of that hit (after you get past the advertising) is:

QS8886-20P - 05/01/2009 at 18:09
Quality Semiconductor
General-Purpose Static RAM - TTL compatible
Number of Words=16k
Bits Per Word=4
t(acc) Max. (S)=19n
tW Min (S)=19n
Output Config=3-State
Nom. Supp (V)=5.0
Package=DIP
Pins=24
Military=N
Technology=CMOS

[your dog]

thank you! i googled it, but did not get by the ads.

[kelseymh]

Fair enough. There were half a dozen decent hits, but that was the only one which claimed to be a spec sheet. The ads on that page were pretty irritating. In any event, if it's a 4-bit word static RAM, it was probably buffer storage for an old-style FPGA.