Join us on Wednesday, August 14th at noon Pacific for the Homemade Integrated Circuits Hack Chat with Sam Zeloof!
While most of us are content to buy the chips we need to build our projects, there’s a small group of hackers more interested in making the chips themselves. What it takes the big guys a billion-dollar fab to accomplish, these hobbyists are doing with second-hand equipment, chemicals found in roach killers and rust removers, and a lot of determination to do what no DIYer has done before.
Sam Zeloof is one of this dedicated band, and we’ve been following his progress for years. While he was still in high school, he turned the family garage into a physics lab and turned out his first simple diodes. Later came a MOSFET, and eventually the Z1, a dual-differential amp chip that is the first IC produced by a hobbyist using photolithography.
Sam just completed his first year at Carnegie-Mellon, and he’s agreed to take some precious summer vacation time to host the Hack Chat. Join us as we learn all about the Z1, find out what improvements he’s made to his process, and see what’s next for him both at college and in his own lab.
Our Hack Chats are live community events in the Hackaday.io Hack Chat group messaging. This week we’ll be sitting down on Wednesday, August 14 at 12:00 PM Pacific time. If time zones have got you down, we have a handy time zone converter.
Click that speech bubble to the right, and you’ll be taken directly to the Hack Chat group on Hackaday.io. You don’t have to wait until Wednesday; join whenever you want and you can see what the community is talking about.
I just can’t understand how I confused him with a wood craftsman!
http://sammaloofwoodworker.com/
B^)
I appreciate the work of both Sams…
Sometimes people confuse me with the Tom Nardi that restores swords, and sometimes wish I was in fact the Tom Nardi who restores swords.
http://swordrestorationtn.com/
Sam’s blogs have been extremely inspirational. They inspired me to wish that I too was a genius (and I’m not using that word lightly).
This might be the folks that are interested. My sister worked at Intel and got me a 12″ wafer signed by Gordon Moore – Moore’s law fame. I’m interested in selling it to someone who will cherish it. Anyone interested??
The “old” Hack A Day had a forum, and one of the sections was Classified Ads.
Now, I guess they just want you to go to Tindie.