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Have a mini-course into maskless photolithography[1][2], and find out how an old DLP projector combined with some advanced optics can yield this: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_2917-e1...

Take a tour in a home fab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrmqZ0hgAXk

His website and Youtube channel are so richly filled with knowledge that so desperately needs to be in the public domain, instead of being locked in corporate structures.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVoldtNpIzI

[2] http://sam.zeloof.xyz/maskless-photolithography/




"His website and Youtube channel are so richly filled with knowledge that so desperately needs to be in the public domain, instead of being locked in corporate structures."

All of this information is public domain, what are you talking about? This is extremely well understood stuff.


Yeah, I went a bit overboard in my amazement that this exploration into building integrated circuitry with affordable tools was so well documented. Such practical information and experience is hard to come by in world where the manufacturing of integrated circuits has been iterated on with very expensive machinery for at least 50 years.




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