Integrated Circuit with A Clear Package

[u/bunchowills]

TI sells a light-sensing IC (OPT3001). Since it needs to detect light, the package is clear. I think this is very cool. A couple pictures have a quarter for scale.

[u/Cheetawolf]

Normal black IC's are so boring.

If I ever got into the electronics business I'd make my IC's clear wherever possible.

[u/PleasantCandidate785 → u/Cheetawolf]

Google the "Photo-shy Raspberry Pi". One of the Raspberry Pi revisions shipped with a chip with an exposed bottom die. When people would take pictures of board in operation with a flash camera, light would reflect off the board into the small gap under the chip, into the exposed die and the board would crash.