 All right, this week's IonMPI is from 3M, Lady Aida. That's right, 3M, you're back. We did 3M a while ago for I think they're squeegees. This week we're doing the IonMPI in 3M because Digikey on digikey.com slash new, which is where they put all their MPIs. So do visit slash new every once in a while, you'll get some heads up on upcoming sensors and chips. They highlighted a 3M VHV tape and this is my favorite tape. This tape is like, it'll mess you up. It's so good. So that was just me being clumsy, that had nothing to do with the tape. Okay, so here. What do you want me to do? Go to the next. I was startled. I know. She kicked a trash can over. I didn't mean to. A lot of people don't realize. Violence. No, this is like a performance art piece and we have a little bit more space in the factory here in our apartment. We have no room. We can touch each wall standing in the middle. So anyways, tape. Tape. Okay, so this is the wheel of VHV tape. It comes in different widths and thicknesses, but we're specifically talking this week about the 5906, which is a very skinny foam double-sided tape that comes on wheels. In this case, it's actually, it looks a little brown on this photo, but usually it's actually quite black and I have some and I'll show it off. And the great stuff about this tape is it's incredibly strong. It's got this kind of like famous acrylic adhesive in it that can bond pretty much anything to anything like wood, plastic, glass, concrete. What have you. This stuff sticks to it. It sticks to it nearly instantly. It's a lot less messy than epoxy. You know, I got this little headphone holder that like sits under my desk and holds my headsets while I'm not using them and it came with VHV tape and even though it was sticking to kind of a rough surface, it stuck well. It stuck strong and I can't get it off. So this stuff is definitely the good stuff. And for electronics, you could use it for, you know, bonding panels, enclosures, sensors. You know, it's not waterproof, but it can deal with a humid environment and a wide range of temperatures. So here is the spec sheet. There's a couple of different thicknesses available again. That highlighted one was the 5906, but there's a couple of different thicknesses. You know, it basically bonds instantly, but after 72 hours, you'll get like the kind of the best bonding. I think this has the, yeah, the panel, the peel adhesion and the static shear. I think in another page, I have the pull force required to delaminate it. It sticks strong. I mean, it's like, you know, tens of pounds of force are needed. So this stuff is definitely quite powerful. It's used often. You know, it kind of like looking into it, it's used often for bonding TFT panels to bezels and PCBs to enclosures. And here are some of the use cases. So they actually have a really cool video, which we're not going to show here, but if you go to, if you search for 3M VHB scooter, they put together like an entire scooter, like a human is on it and rolling around with like no screws or bolts, only VHB tape. And it worked and like it was totally fine for an adult human to roll around and it doesn't have that many views. It's a very cool video. So I do recommend checking it out. I think I sent it to you, Phil, maybe we'll post it up later when we put this on the blog. There are spec sheets for the 3M VHB tape. Again, there's just like a lot of variations of this tape. So while we're featuring the 30, the 5906, there's other thicknesses, widths and stuff. And the thing is, Digikey has these in sheets. So when you look, just, you know, the sheets are going to be expensive because they're going to be like, you know, what, five feet by like 20 feet or something, massive sheets that can be die cut. But you can also get them in spools, which is what we did and what we recommend. So it comes in. I'm on Digikey. It comes, it's on Digikey for I think like 13 bucks. You can get half inch by five yards. And then I think for 20 bucks, you can get one inch by five yards. So I actually got one of each. They're inexpensive enough that you can like pick it up without worry, have it in your toolbox and then, you know, usually if you're using foam tape or double sided tape, it's like it's removable. If you need something that's not going to be removable, like something that's really like it's stuck and it's going to stay stuck for decades, then this is definitely going to do a better job than like your everyday electrical tape, scotch tape, masking tape, whatever. And I can even show a quick demo on the overhead. Okay. So this is the VHB tape. Okay. And I've got my scissors. So it comes. So of course it's so strong you can't, it's not like, you know, double sided scotch tape where you can like peel it off. And it's like, yes, it's stuck to itself, but it's removable. Once it sticks to itself, you can't remove it. So it's got a plastic dividing, it's like the one plastic it doesn't stick to, like they fit. That's the thing. They're the cure and the disease. When you design something that sticks to anything, if you want to package it, you have to find the one thing it doesn't stick to, so you can package it. It's like a super glue company has a thing that makes it so it doesn't stick to other things. I know it. Yeah. So just for a demo, I want to show, you know, I have these two scrap PCBs. So you would... Make sure you lock the focus in, I don't know if I'll open it up. Yeah, sorry. It's going up again. I know. Hold on. Is this okay? All right. So I cut off a piece of the tape in the backing. So if I adhere this here and you, you can see that, right? Yeah. And then you can peel this off and then so I can like kind of sort of remove it. I'm going to put this across ways. And then again, you know, 72 hours is like how long it takes for it to like really bond. But, you know, this is, here, you try it and you're a guy, you're strong. All right. That might, that might have hurt me. You're a monster. So it, you know, it is, it is possible. Yeah. Also, of course, if you clean it, but you have to have, you have to be able to like wedge it from the side to be able to get enough. I'm also cranked out on gear. He's also, he's also cranked out. Anyways, he's not extremely strong. And then, you know, like if you didn't go from an angle, if you actually tried to pull it flat, it's really stuck. So for like displays and stuff or for any kind of electronics where you just have to make sure that it doesn't vibrate loose. And it's kind of a little bit of, the foam is a little thick. So there's a little bit of give, which is also kind of nice. Like it's stuck together, but it's not like hard stuck together. Like there's a little bit of flexibility. So if it gets, if it gets a shock force, it's not going to like fly apart. This is some of the things about epoxy that drives me a little crazy is some epoxies are so hard that, you know, but if you, if you give it a kick in just the right location, it'll snap open. Whereas this adhesive on the foam backing is just soft enough that I think it has a little bit of give. It'll stay stuck even if it's like shaken or twisted or lifted and dropped. So, yes. I usually have to test stuff that's like unbreakable or like whatever. What I like about this is this was hard to, to get a part, you know, like it hurt my hand, but your hand. Okay. Yeah, it's fine. But it did give, which I liked because in the past, you know, sometimes I break the thing instead. Yeah. So this, this had, this could hold anything, but it does, it does. You do make it an easy piece with it and you make it compromise at some point. And it will, you can remove it eventually. Yeah, that was hard though. You just have to put like, you know, 100 pounds of force per square inch. Yeah. So it's a lot of, it's a lot of effort, but you can remove it, but it's not going to move by accident. Like you have to try. What I should say is it's purposely or purposeful, removable. Purposefully. Yeah. Like you have to like have a lot of willpower. Okay. And the VHB stands for like very high bond, I think. So like, there you go, right? That's what it is. All right. I think it's very heckin' cool. And with that, is that an MPI?