Switch vs WaterJet

pendragon1

pendragon1

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limited edition triforce switch :)
how does it stay working for so long?!

 
Wow that was pretty cool. I can't believe it still was running with a hole in it lol.
 
That was pretty awesome, the poof when the screen died was pretty sweet, seeing those last moments on high speed camera would have been pretty sick.
 
How the hell can you cut a big triangle out of the center an it works? That was amazing. I'm not a fan of these either.
 
I also am not big on these kinds of videos.

But hey it's their stuff and if destroying something can get you hundreds of thousands or even millions of views on youtube then it makes plenty of sense.

Just go buy 20 more.
 
Htf did it not let the magic smoke out faster? I had 1 drop of water take stuff out before
 
tunatime said:
Htf did it not let the magic smoke out faster? I had 1 drop of water take stuff out before
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Seriously. It looks like it didn't go out til the 2nd triforce cut got started. You could see all the sparks and arcs happening in the first cut and still running.
 
thats what got me too! how the hell is it still working?! you can see in the preview image the first triangle is cut and dropped through but its still goin! it even cut through the pcb AND battery but was still working! nintendo must have some new super magic smoke thats harder to release :)
 
Just thought of something is that some kind of cutting liquid that is non conductive? thats the only way i can see that working for that long.
 
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I guess want to know what was that glow?
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They were cutting through the entire unit which meant exposing one of two things...
If it is an Edge Lit screen (I figure that's most likely, due to being much cheaper), they would've be cutting through the thin layer of Backlight Diffuser and Reflector material. From Wikipedia:
"the light is first passed through a lightguide - a specially designed layer of plastic that diffuses the light through a series of unevenly spaced bumps. The density of bumps increases further away from the light source according to a diffusion equation. The diffused light then travels to either side of the diffuser; the front faces the actual LCD panel, the back has a reflector to guide otherwise wasted light back toward the LCD panel."​

However, if it DOES have Direct LED backlighting, then that's what you were seeing, was the light bleed from the various super bright LEDs behind the LCD screen.


tunatime said:
Just thought of something is that some kind of cutting liquid that is non conductive? thats the only way i can see that working for that long.
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Those CNC WaterJet machines, as far as I know, all use plain old Water (due to not leaving a residue like a chemical, or being hard as hell to clean up like an oil). However, there's more to it than that. The water is really just a carrier of a 'cutting media', which is some sort of abrasive grain/powder. It's like "Sand Blasting" (or 'media blasting' as it's usually called now), except instead of using Air to deliver the sand, it's using Water. And instead of being a big wide blast of sand to quickly remove rust or paint, it's a tiny tiny jet of it used to cut through stuff. In essence, it's more like a laser :p However, don't think that water is incapable of 'cutting' just on its own! Stick your hand in front of a Pressure Washer with a Jet nozzle on it and you'll find out right away the power of H2O! (But seriously, do not stick your hand in front of a Pressure Washer nozzle!)
 
Awe, I didn't see the Triforce coming. I was hoping they would pick it up and examine it running with a hole through it.

So the cut haphazardously misses the GPU (below), the CPU (left), clips the corner of the battery (lower right), and cuts out the heat spreader, which apparently has nothing of value around it... that is nuts. The left side of this part is what would have been cut: https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/lyfnmQPlg63VMWAA.huge

Edit: wait, the memory is under that heatspreader... I'm so lost. It must have only cut the lower chip, and by chance, the memory allocation for this particular game only needed the top chip. :/
 
Impressive that it ran as long as it did with that kind of damage. Still really wasteful though.
 
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