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(Message started by: somebody_new_here on Jan 9^th, 2003, 5:02am)

Title: What is this
Post by somebody_new_here on Jan 9^th, 2003, 5:02am

http://web.ecomplanet.com/WETZ4224/ServerContent/MyCustomImages/WETZ4224CustomImage0024031.jpg

Title: Re: What is this
Post by towr on Jan 9^th, 2003, 6:12am

an URL to an image in jpg format..

Title: Re: What is this
Post by somebody_new_here on Jan 9^th, 2003, 10:07am

what does the image mean, I meant...

It's a small object, not what is seems and made of something.

Title: Re: What is this
Post by towr on Jan 9^th, 2003, 10:24am

Is the image approximately real size?

Title: Re: What is this
Post by James Fingas on Jan 9^th, 2003, 10:34am

It's a birthday cake with a ring of candles haphazardly put on it, sitting on a square platter, with a square piece cut out of the middle.

Title: Re: What is this
Post by Cyrus on Jan 9^th, 2003, 12:52pm

It's the top view of a square table, with a pumpkin on top of it, the pumpkin has had a square cut made in the top of it and the top taken off so that the "guts" could be removed.

Title: Re: What is this
Post by BNC on Jan 18^th, 2003, 7:20am

I’ll give it a try:

It looks somewhat like a Silicon chip (square in the middle) in its housing (circle) before wire-bonding to the pins. The pins are the dots circling the chip. The outer square may be just a frame, or the stage on which the wire bonding takes place.
I thought of it because I’m now writing an exam in a course called “Analog circuits”. The book I using now is called “microelectronic circuits” by Sedra and Smith (see http://www.sedrasmith.org/), and the picture seems very very similar.

It may also be an answer to http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_medium;action=display;num=1041509671

It is round and square: the chip is square, the housing square (a bit lame…)
Very small: yes, the chip Is small
Made of something: Silicon
Not what it seems: The chip is hidden in the housing.

Title: Re: What is this
Post by lia on Jan 22^nd, 2003, 8:28pm

two squares, a circle, and some badly positioned dots.

Actually, I thought it was a bacterial culture, with like, a cube of a resistance drug in the middle or something. I don't know - it's a little too scientific though..

What about: eye candy for the chronically bored?

Title: Re: What is this
Post by mistysakura on Jan 22^nd, 2003, 8:59pm

I'm calling it a coin with a hole in the middle.