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I love the picture; HUGE bus bars at the top; stuff held together with random metal framing, and a couple of dangling UK 13A plugs!

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I like that Grounding looks like a first class passenger in there but definitely it's one big electric code violation in a box.

Interesting to compare with the Nvidia latest keynote [1] where they opened up a 3D rendering of some ASML internals and how slick those systems are put together given the fantastic level of complexity involved also.

[1] https://youtu.be/DiGB5uAYKAg [22:40 ish]

The ASML stuff is production equipment where downtime costs millions in chip production. This is a dev system where a few second run after a few tries is excellent and they constantly tweak stuff. I'm not sure what ASML's dev setup looks like.

Anyone interested in the details should watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ge2RcvDlgw (has the same graphics)

without any hyperbole the 2-shot laser thing necessary to emit EUV is just mind bending.

That L-shaped piece of t-slot aluminum that's dead center in the picture looks especially janky. Like sort of a quick and dirty friction fit brace.

It looks like the inside of The Millennium Falcon, but with more duct tape.

if you have ever worked in research science you would know this is common.

especially government research science

"good enough for government work"

Yup! Worked at a gov't funded radio telescope and this is just the right level of jank for scientific progress.

Complete with random bits of aluminum extrusion for bracing, random leftover cables no one's cleaned up yet, "interim" solutions, and duct tape.

I love the wooden ceiling above.

That said the picture of the plasma itself was like the warp core for the enterprise. It’s happening!

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