Sub-Surface Simon

[@alnwlsn]

This video has quite a few continuity errors, because it's assembled from shots of several attempts at each section. It's not easy to solder and film, you know! Also, here's my first attempt at adding sound: kzbin.infopo7r33WILp0

[@mk12pickle]

very good work, for a speaker there are super tiny ones in android smart phones.

[@4bSix86f61]

Is there enough program space to get FastLED and extremely small WS2812 LEDs on there?

[@turfptax]

Nice job! It is hard to film all the stuff while also trying to make it work. So glad your video came up on my feed. I subscribed.

[@christopherleubner6633]

Awsome build. Very fun project you did there. ❤

[@Corcrikey]

Was recommended to this channel so subscribed ❤❤

[@buck_et]

System On a Chip taken to a whole new level. this is so freakin' cool.

[@JuhanaSiren]

Simon On a Chip.

[@simonruszczak5563]

A new meaning to micro game.

[@AiOinc1]

This takes "single chip device" to a completely new level! Fantastic work, absolutely fantastic.

[@lis6502]

i loved the microdosing of soldering wire :D

[@achhcityshorts4646]

i sometimes eat a lil piece of soldering wire sometimes

[@elephant_beard227]

@@achhcityshorts4646 what. the. heck.

[@loookas]

I'm so stupid that I thought that "Sub-Surface Simon" was the channel name and I was curios about how much content could possibly be there :D Great job, I'm impressed

[@feakhelek1]

Same.

[@nimoy007]

This was so satisfying to watch. From one engineer to another -- amazing patience on that soldering, especially in such close quarters.

[@_skyyskater]

Not sure which is more impressive, the project itself or how far you got in the game!

[@alnwlsn]

got lucky on that take

[@dalewheat]

That’s some real “embedded development” there! Great job and thanks for sharing!

[@KeanM]

I was especially impressed when you showed the failed milling attempts.

[@gblargg]

DIP will always be the best DIY-friendly package.

[@EternityForest]

I was worried about how the SMD transition would affect DIY, but cheap automated fab services showed up just in time. If you still want to breadboard, you can have your own custom DIP module made!

[@gblargg]

@@EternityForest Yeah, SMD to DIP adapter boards people have made really help for the few SMD chips you might need for a project.

[@asteroidrules]

Just the thought of soldering components that tiny by hand is terrifying. That's some phenomenal work.

[@DonVintaggio]

Holy microprojects Batman! impressive proof of concept; interesting how complicated it is to follow the sequence when the microleds are so close; and you made it far harder by speeding up the sequence pretty quickly!

[@RodHartzell]

Awesome! I can do simple SMD soldering but omg! You are so patient working with miniature stuff that is hard to see without magnification. Thank you for sharing the video. Very impressive.

[@garymucher4082]

I have to applaud you for the tenacity of doing such things over and over until you get it to work... Thumbs Up

[@MrMaxeemum]

I'm loving the Doc Brown lab noises in the background.

[@giannimariani9744]

Clever. Many many years ago I tried filing down a dip package to place it in a small housing, I failed, and destroyed the chip. You nailed it.

[@JohnVance]

See you on Hackaday soon I guess!

[@joeblow229]

Wow, that's really creative! I'm glad you mentioned that it took several attempts, that's some serious dedication, nice job!

[@OmarMekkawy]

What a crazy guy. Keep going, I love these kind of videos

[@justDIY]

Beautiful work, great job filming such a small creation. It even has sound, so cool!

[@mikea683]

This was unexpectedly awesome!

[@The_Makers_Prerogative]

I enjoyed watching this a lot, thank you for recording it and sharing.

[@dondywondy]

Fantastic work, especially the micro-soldering! I've never see any kind of work inside the chip case and it seems that this could be a preview of future chips with human interfaces built-in. It was also great to see some of the failures you had carving into chip cases. Thanks for sharing all your difficult work and for the work you put in recording, editing and posting.

[@rgi9509]

So concerned with weather they could, they never stopped to ask weather they should.

[@lazychris2000]

*whether

[@TheRecreationalMachinist]

This is probably the coolest thing I'll see today 👍

[@lkahfi]

Awesome project and attention to detail. I might not patient enough to solder that tiny wires. Maybe next project make world smallest keyboard? Just to type F of course

[@alnwlsn]

funny you should mention that, I have got a project in my bucket to make a keyboard using rotary key/lock tumbler switches (get it?). Stay tuned!

[@antonliakhovitch8306]

​@@alnwlsnThat's horrifying

[@APerson-xg6cu]

You are my hero! Chips have been considered a quanta of circuits for a long time and to see them being stripped down and made into a working system is amazing!

[@TheCustomGeek]

And one geek to another, awesome job! You just hands down earned my subscription!

[@stuwilson3146]

Brilliant!!.. love it.. Nothing Better Than Doing it old School.. The hard way.. Great Video.

[@Rpol_404]

Congrats on winning Hackaday’s Tiny Games contest. It was well deserved!

[@davidstonier-gibson8408]

Very clever!! Reminds me of the time in 1965 when at the age of 18 I extracted the innards from metal can point contact germanium transistors and soldered them to a teeny PCB I had made. The resultant audio amplifier make sound in a small speaker for a minute of two before dying. It was only some time later I learned about power dissipation 🙂 For the very fine soldering I wrapped some 0.5mm copper wire around the tip of my soldering iron and extended it to form a very fine soldering tip.

[@DaveEtchells]

Great idea, cutting off the little chips of solder, you’ve just expanded my soldering skills! Thanks! 👍👍👍

[@video99couk]

I'll never complain again about having to replace some SMD capacitors.

[@vikinggameprogrammer7233]

Beautiful. Wonderful intro to your channel- I've subbed. Nice milling work even with the failed attempts :)

[@marshall100w6]

CONGRATULATIONS!!! It’s AWESOME. What a patience.

[@4bSix86f61]

The literal meaning of System on Chip

[@1337Shockwav3]

This will now be my go to video when I explain that DIP is mostly package for ease of manual assembly and very little chip.

[@jayd8935]

I am amazed how steady your hand is but more, your control of solder in such a small space.

[@Sim-q9t]

something I never thought I would see. Amazing

[@ihart123]

Wow. Great job here. Taking an AtTiny84A (Arduino) DIP chip and installing hardware IN it is incredible. Mad respect to you. You're pretty good at Simon too...

[@electronash]

This is brilliant. lol At first, I thought you might be using LEDs that were all the same colour. But of course not, and that makes it even better.

[@UselessDuckCompany]

This is really cool

[@nate_0723]

This is a work of art

[@LonnonFoster]

That is some extreme microsoldering. Hat's off to you. May your fingers eventually uncramp!

[@gavincurtis]

Awesome! Now make 15,999 more of them, load onto a spool so I can buy one from Digikey!

[@Denis7947.]

💀

[@CallousCoder]

As someone who on his channel hacked SIMON to auto play and created SIMON in Zig and Forth (on the Forth I have not yet made a video) I am all in. Bloody brilliant! And what a steady hand!!!

[@pickoftheglitter]

that's the most insane project I've ever seen! Amazing!

[@thiagofalencar]

Interesting! It gave me some nice ideas! Thanks for sharing your project!

[@CandyGramForMongo_]

This is nuts. I love it, best hack I’ve seen in a long while. 😂

[@paulromsky9527]

Great project, gave you a like even before you finished it. Gotta love the AT TINY microcontroller system on a chip.

[@MotownBatman]

New Sub; Dryden, Michigan. Well Done, This is Crazy Cool!

[@Ricmann3]

WOWWW !!!! Very Nice!!!

[@HariWiguna]

Amazing work! Please post another video if/when you integrated the speaker. Subscribed.

[@michellecullen8530]

Wow dude that's awesome 😮 never have I ever seen something so spectacular with a chip 😊 thankyou sir you are truly an electronic super hero 🎉,🙏💜🕊️

[@electric-del]

Not seen soldering that small since I worked in the hearing aid industry. Brilliant project. 😀👍

[@louroboros]

Awesome stuff! Looking forward to the UFBGA version ;)

[@pyr3x849]

Haha! This is amazing! What I'd give to own one! Fantastic work sir!

[@non-human3072]

This is awesome 😎, I've got a lot of fond memories of this game...not so many when mixed with drinking games.

[@dok.Sanger]

Я думаю это великолепно! Arduino Blink game, next level. ❤ Спасибо что поделились этим видео, у вас есть фантазия 😂

[@lrrrofomikronparmaside8904]

Genuinely a good watch!

[@tuxrandom]

Now that's what I call an integrated circuit. Wish I had the skill and (mainly) patience to pull something like that off.

[@patrickbodine1300]

Amazing work!

[@Space_Reptile]

insane, well done

[@ewanuno]

This is beautiful well done! Next step, add a wireless transmitter to the Rx and tx lines then cover it back up and re add the logo.

[@JefWakeUp]

Wow! Great. Congrats

[@BleughBleugh]

Great idea! Thanks for sharing

[@BamTehBrent]

Incredibly impressive

[@mikro_chip]

nice👍👍👍

[@theredstormer8078]

Crazy impressive!

[@Gameboygenius]

One of those rare hacks that are really impressive.

[@stevenwillis548]

Amazing work.

[@Hararion]

Best ultra tiny portable micro game… never seen something like this before! The most close to it was a Simon keychain thingy…

[@colinsmith6340]

upvoting simply due to the detail here. daaaaamn.

[@smallmoneysalvia]

How many clocks do you have?

[@JustinDuijn]

For real, it’s getting on my nerves 😂

[@alnwlsn]

at least 5

[@d42kn355]

Fascinating!

[@jozefnovak7750]

Super! Thank you very much!

[@d42kn355]

More of this stuff please!

[@PJgearhead]

Pretty freakin cool love it!

[@gydo1942]

amazing work!

[@kamurashev]

Wow man 🔥

[@MixZTitaniumDubstep]

I knew the dye in the IC is tiny, but this is crazy.

[@kristal1624]

Wonderful job 👍👍👍

[@alainbibi0047]

"Mr Bond whe've got a new gadget for you". Hey, nice drill !

[@tocaamerillo431]

Well done!

[@wutang700]

Very impressive 👏

[@Antichamberteam80110H]

Beautiful

[@MrJermbob]

I love this.

[@mxtb1888]

Considering all that clock ticking in the background, was half expecting Marty to show up on his skateboard.

[@hotplatelabs]

Love this

[@manecior1]

I love this ❤

[@WaffleStaffel]

Wow, that's impressive

[@leomartihart]

muy buen trabajo!!!

[@DaveEtchells]

Absolutely brilliant project, kudos on the fine motor skills and patience to pull it off! For the problem of too-bright LEDs, larger resistors would obviously also work but would require a rework I don’t want to even think about about 😱 As an easy post-assembly mod, they make neutral-density Mylar films that photographers use for adjusting their studio lighting that come in grades that cut light transmission by anywhere from (I think) ~10% to ~95%. They’re just thin Mylar, so would be easy to trim to size and glue on. (They can also obviously be stacked for greater attenuation.) I’ll email you my contact info via your website so you can give me an address to send you some pieces of the material if you’d like. (BTW, just how many clocks do you have running in that room? From the ticking “background music” it sounds like quite a collection!)

[@4211Rob]

I'm laughing my butt off, this is so fun! Bravo!

[@ingussilins6330]

New homebrew IC - next level after SMD.

[@simonruszczak5563]

The next level would be to turn it into a Simon game key fob. That would be cool as well.

[@NickMoore]

S-Tier hackery! May your beard grow long and grey!

[@Adam_Lyskawa]

I think there's even space for a small battery in the bottom of the chip.

[@andyburns]

Waiting for surface mounted simon.

[@chrisdonnell7200]

Could definitely do the same kind of project with a SOIC

[@Frisco1355]

Wow, uploaded a half hour ago? Caught it real early.