This was part of the 1,000-subscriber celebration video, but it somehow got lost during editing! Recorded with an iPhone… you can see why I don’t normally record with an iPhone! Muhahaha! :P

Here’s a little bit of bonus footage that didn’t quite make it into the original celebration. Today we’re pulling apart a PlayStation 2 memory card, because apparently the internet needs to know what one of these looks like on the inside!

It’s a standard 8 MB card, and there isn’t a great deal to it from the outside. The shell is held together with a couple of small Phillips screws, although I begin to wonder whether there’s a hidden screw lurking underneath the label.

Naturally, it doesn’t come apart quite as gracefully as I’d hoped. There’s a bit of fiddling before the shell finally separates. No blood, though, which I suppose is something to be thankful for!

Inside we’ve got a compact little circuit board with the memory and control electronics. Not a terribly complicated-looking assembly. I try to get a closer look at the components, but the iPhone camera has other ideas.

Can I zoom? Yes. Can I focus? Apparently not!

I also bring out another little circuit board from the 1,000-subscriber video for comparison. It belongs to a Sega Master System II controller project, which is probably more exciting to me than a PlayStation 2 memory card. At least I’ve managed to find an excuse to bring some Sega hardware into the recording.

There’s really not much more inside the card to investigate without getting into the individual components, so that’s our little disassembly completed. The footage isn’t my finest piece of camera work, but at least it survived the editing process this time.

Another great mystery of the universe solved. There’s a circuit board inside a memory card!