Does NeverWet work on electronics? The team over at Adafruit just had to find out — and to an extent, it does work!
But wait, what’s NeverWet? It’s Rust-Oleum’s miracle water-repelling covering which is very hydrophobic. It actually works, and we’re type of amazed we haven’t seen it utilized in a hack yet! Anyway, let’s begin this hack with a quick disclaimer. NeverWet is not developed for waterproofing electronics.
But when has that ever stopped the quest of science!?
The experimenters selected a few electronic guinea pigs to test out NeverWet’s capabilities. An Arduino Micro, a FLORA LED broach, and a Raspberry Pi. utilizing the appropriate application technique they coated the unlucky electronics with a few generous layers of the product. utilizing ordinary nyc tap water they evaluated each component. The FLORA LED broach (shown above) lasted underwater for about 4 hours before it died. The Arduino Micro fared similar, however the wet Raspberry only booted when before losing connection to the SD card.
For full details inspect out the full experiment or stick around after the break to see a video of the tests.
[via Reddit]