<azonenberg>
full 2" wafer of the things, plus alignment marks etc
<soul-d>
it looked quite similar but it is in the electronic spin of fedora
<azonenberg>
i heard some other folks recommending it
<azonenberg>
i'll look at it again
<soul-d>
jsut mentioning cause i know fedora would not include stuff that gets unstable  and easy to install wich would get stuff out of the way for random people looking at it
<azonenberg>
Yeah, i will definitely look at it
<soul-d>
looks cool no idea what id does  well  maybe  "tiny" bit , the first pic  the comb thingy is suposed to move right ?
<azonenberg>
the bottom fingers are fixed
<azonenberg>
the top fingers can move - see the spring above them?
<azonenberg>
The two large metal pads at top and bottom are test pads for probing
<azonenberg>
you stick a needle down on each one and apply voltage
<azonenberg>
the fingers then behave like a parallel plate capacitor and develop a charge
<azonenberg>
which causes them to attract
<azonenberg>
And kristianpaul is right, this is pretty much the 'hello world' app of mems
<azonenberg>
doing anything more complex will be difficult but i'm hoping to get there eventually
<soul-d>
but how does it become a  spring just because of the form ?  or  will the lanes that make the spring hover  by some etchin thecnique ?  hard to visualize 3d  sofar it has  it :)
<azonenberg>
soul-d: This is a top down view
<azonenberg>
it will be etched pretty much vertically into the wafer
<azonenberg>
the structures will be around 50 microns high
<azonenberg>
the rest of the ~500 micron thick wafer will be etched away before i do the fine patterning