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Category: 📐 - Designing Parent channel: #💡-ideas Thread ID: 1446610075526500466

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message-1446610075526500466

2025-12-05T21:11:58.721+00:00 — Essen (@essen__)

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Decided to start a list to track all my terrible ideas in case someone else wants to start a fab in there garage.
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message-1446610194325835927

2025-12-05T21:12:27.045+00:00 — Essen (@essen__)

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Wafer-dicer, using the scribe-and-break method.
auction opens : Dec 8 at 6:00AM PST

 https://edispositions.placebids.net/auctions/1779013/lots/46529596
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2025-12-05T21:12:39.459+00:00 — Essen (@essen__)

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2025-12-05T21:32:09.256+00:00 — Essen (@essen__)

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Die sorter, based on a map : https://www.govdeals.com/en/asset/23504/20379
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2025-12-05T21:35:11.814+00:00 — Essen (@essen__)

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message-1446678207163273289

2025-12-06T01:42:42.569+00:00 — Essen (@essen__)

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the die sorted was mischaracterized in the "metal work equipment" category, so if anyone is planning on bidding, I doubt you will have much competition 🤣
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message-1446767843583721495

2025-12-06T07:38:53.557+00:00 — Tim 'mithro' Ansell (@mithro_)

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@Essen - Have you see hackerfab?
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2025-12-06T07:40:15.184+00:00 — Tim 'mithro' Ansell (@mithro_)

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I was about to say "mine" but it is only Wafer Size: 2-4 inches -- I need 8 inch 🙂
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2025-12-06T07:40:56.88+00:00 — Tim 'mithro' Ansell (@mithro_)

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@Essen - These types of terrible ideas are quite common on the SiliconPrawn and fossf-silicon discord servers.
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message-1446915141743542292

2025-12-06T17:24:12.175+00:00 — Essen (@essen__)

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No, I had not, but now I cannot unsee it. That is truly such a cool project they have set up at cmu.
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2025-12-06T17:28:27.559+00:00 — Essen (@essen__)

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Oh no, so close. 😅
You definitely see a majority of 4 inch compatible equipment. Want me to ping you in the event I happen across the 8" die sorter ? 💸
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message-1447005984877973544

2025-12-06T23:25:10.866+00:00 — Tim 'mithro' Ansell (@mithro_)

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Definitely - or 8 inch compatible wafer saw / dicer. Wire bonders too.

However, I'm now based in Australia and wafer.space is based in Singapore, so US based equipement is less useful. I'm still probably interested but you should also ping @carlfk and @Andrew Wingate, if the equipment is in the US and I'm paying for it then they will most certainly end up having to deal with the physical object 🙂

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2025-12-07T23:11:02.937+00:00 — ReJ aka Renaldas Zioma (@rzioma)

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BTW what could be a price for a used wirebonder? Asking for friend 🙂

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2025-12-08T01:08:21.17+00:00 — Tim 'mithro' Ansell (@mithro_)

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@ReJ aka Renaldas Zioma - Anywhere between $1k and $500k USD depending on the functionality, type, age, etc.
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2025-12-10T13:55:07.813+00:00 — Essen (@essen__)

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Haha, if your friend is still looking, the auction closes tomorrow 😉
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2025-12-12T17:07:35.414+00:00 — ReJ aka Renaldas Zioma (@rzioma)

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Turns out EECS at KTH university in Stockholm have wirebonder machine that is not used. Need to figure out who knows how to operate it 🙂

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2025-12-12T17:14:00.337+00:00 — Essen (@essen__)

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Nice, how did you convince them to let you use it ?
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2025-12-12T19:52:01.458+00:00 — ReJ aka Renaldas Zioma (@rzioma)

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I haven’t convinced them (yet), but I will go to visit them and check it out 😉

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2025-12-12T20:17:57.279+00:00 — Essen (@essen__)

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Sounds like a strategy 💪
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