 Let's do the great search. The great search brought to you by Digikey and I refer to every single weekly to use a power of engineering to help you. Yes, you buy things on digikey.com. Lady, what is the great search of the week this week? Okay. Well, we had actually this, this has come up before. People have asked me, where do I find these chip clips? Not the things that go on your Doritos, but the things that clip on to a dip or SOIC chips for analysis or, um, simulation, or programming. So let's go to my computer and I'll show what I'm talking about. These are quite handy. Um, so this was a post, I guess I don't call tweets anymore. Um, and they're like, oh yeah, I found this on digikey and somebody's like, Hey, what's the part of it? They asked me, what's the part number for this? Cause it looks really handy. This is somebody who does like retro, um, repairs for arcade stuff. So you might have times where you want to clip onto one of these chips and you want to probe all the pins. Like maybe you want to do logic analysis on it. Another thing that's very common is that there might be an eight pin SOIC flash chip on a router and you want to dump it or you want to program it. Um, sometimes, you know, the, the programming interface is done through the chip. You don't really have access to it or you want to go around and you want to go right onto it. Now, of course, you can always solder on, but what's nice about these clips is that like, or, you know, you can use sometimes a little like micro grabbers, micro grabbers, like sometimes they fly off. And, um, this is really nice and satisfying. You just clip on, you get access to all the pins. So did you get, does stock these in a variety of setups? You can see this one is from 3M. Um, so let's check out what they've got. I'll show you two versions, both the dip version and the SOIC version, as well as a mistake that I made that you will not make after you see me find the right SOIC chip clip. So, um, so these are called chip clips. I'm pretty sure our chip, let's see, IC clip. Yeah, they're called IC clips. So let's go to the category. This is the category and just stacking. Uh, so a lot of options available here. You know, Adafruit, uh, some spark fun. We, we sell some models, but we're going to probably go with the 3M one because, you know, I think neither of us sell the dip version. So let's first off go for active because we want to pick it up today because we want to do some debugging. Okay, so next up, let's do, let's find the dip version. So this is a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, two by 10 clip. So let's search for that. And the next thing you want to watch out for is, um, well, actually, let's go back. If you look for, uh, 40 pin, this is, or the 28 pin, there's going to be two sizes. Wait, sorry, I lied. Scratch what I just said. I meant two by 14. Yeah. Yeah. Because two by 14. So small, like eight pin dips are always going to be 0.3 inch and 40 pin dips are like always going to be 0.6 inch. But then there's that like in between the 20 and 28. And sometimes they're skinny and sometimes they're wide. And the clips will not work if you have the wrong one. Like this is clearly like fatter. This is the wide 0.6 inch. And this is, you can see how the teeth are closer together. Wide, close, 0.3 inch, 0.6 inch. You're not going to be able to swap the two. You have to pick the size that matches your dip. These are 0.3 inch here. And if you actually look in the background, see this one, this fat chip. This is a 0.6 inch. So you'll need a different clip depending on which one you're going for. Um, so in this case we want 0.3 inch spacing. And there's a couple of versions, you know, they're not inexpensive. I'll say the thing you're going to pay for is whether it's gold plated or not. If you don't really care about gold plating, um, this one will do the job quite nicely. You can connect your logic analyzer directly to these clips. Um, not cheap, but they do do the job very well. So I would, you know, if you're, if you're dealing a lot with reprogramming or debugging these chips in situ, um, I strongly do recommend. I strongly do recommend them. Okay. So that's the dip chip. And then a more common one that people ask me about is they want, um, SOIC. So let's clear the number of positions out. So they want SOIC two by four, eight pin to clip onto, um, it's like your W25Q. You know, you've got this kind of SOIC chip on. Like I said, router motherboard, dev board, FPGA, whatever, usually storing EEPROM or SPI flash, um, program. You want to either program it or you want to dump it, the data off, or you want to analyze it because you're having timing issues. So you want, uh, a two by four, these are eight pin, EEPROMs and SPI are almost all eight pin. And then we want SOIC version. So here's the next thing. There are, um, these test clips and they look very similar. But one thing I have absolutely learned is that the body of the SOIC chip is not always going to be this. It's, it's, they look similar, but they're different widths. This kind of squarish one is called a 0.208, I think a 0.2 inch body. SOIC, whereas I think, yes, this one, chunky, 0.2 inch. This version, not chunky, 0.15 inch. And also this one, see how it's like less, it doesn't go all the way to the end of the pads. This is 0.5 inch, chunky, 0.2 inch. The most popular clip, this Pomona, sorry, this, uh, this three M one is not going to work on your 0.2 inch. It's only going to work on the narrower version of the chip. And no matter how much you squeeze it, it will never clip on to the 0.2 inch. So don't get this one. If you want to clip onto wide, uh, SOIC chips, the one you want is this one because whatever, it's just got a little bit more, um, opening and it can clip onto up to 0.35 inch wide, uh, SOIC clips. So this is the one you want for your debugging. So check it out. They also have a couple other versions, but you know, just one is kind of what you want. So this is my pick for the great search, this and that dip clip. And that's a great search.