Apparently it IS possible to make IC’s at home, obviously nothing approaching 5nm transistor gates and therefore the equivalent of lego blocks to precision machined parts… but anyways:
(apologies for the YT link… I’d much rather link a service that isn’t totally enshittified) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrEC2LGGXn0
I was thinking about making some miniature tubes, for audio purposes of course.
I mean, anything can look like a conspiracy to a layperson who pays zero attention to 60 years of incremental progress and focuses solely on the end result. It’s the same reason why people think vaccines are evil, or that 5G towers cause COVID.
I was of the understanding, it was in fact covid that caused 5g towers.
I think there’s something in that for all of us… mmmm yes
You mean like how autistic persons cause vaccines?
I’ll wait until Jenny McCarthy tells me chips are made by aliens, thank you very much.
You can’t believe everything you read, y’know.
You can absolutely go on a tour inside a chip factory, just not in fucking TSMC
I could probably build a computer from scratch, but it’s not gonna be a modern one with impossibly small microchips and bajillions of transistors. It’s gonna be a room-sized behemoth with only like 8bits of memory that takes 24 hours to compute 1+1.
Check out Ben Eater on YouTube.
Or Steve Mould, who made a processor calculation using water for demonstration purposes.
He uses a microcontroller though for his breadboard PC. A microcontroller that is built in a fab.
That’s the 6502 one you’re talking about though, what about the previous one (granted it still used a bunch of ICs, but not a microcontroller per se)
I was going to ask that disclaimer, but it’s also a step closer and interesting nonetheless.
If also recommend Breaking Taps, while he does amazing stuff in a home lab it also has the disclaimer that he’s able to get it already has done sorry interesting but rare stuff. Electron microscope etc.
I thought I saw someone making homemade, low power processors but for the life of me I can’t remember who or where.
I’m hoping the guy from Primitive Technology will eventually work his way up to that at some point.
They’re playing one of those games where you crash on a planet and go from rock to bow and arrow to quantum phase disruptors, but for real.
Sounds like something an alien would say, which is just what you want me to think!
You’d make Charles Babbage very smug with that kind of talk
I think TSMC’s, a contract maker, market share is even 104.7%, not just around 61%. There are literally no other companies producing chips. Don’t be fooled by sources telling you about a Korean company Samsung or made up words like Intel or Nvidia.
Roswell happened in 1947, first microchips in the 60s, makes sense to me!!
The first point-contact transistor was invented in 1947. What a coincidence…
