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| [* icon_note] Back to those capacitative sensors we mentioned. Under that funky film is certainly a grid of...something. | |
| - | [* black] Each of the gold rectangles on this back panel is a single plate of a capacitor. |
| + | [* black] Each of the gold rectangles on this back panel is a single plate of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance|parallel plate capacitor]. |
| [* black] Each box has a tiny trace (the dark areas are actually highways of many traces) running back to the control chip. Which... | |
| - | [* red] ...We find on the backside of the panel, probably. We believe this chip to be the controller for the pressure sensors. |
| - | [* black] But just how does this display work? |
| + | [* red] ...We find on the backside of the panel, probably. This Apple-custom chip is responsible for wrangling the capacitors—keeping them charged and measuring changes in current to and from each. |