[clug] Bake-at-home transistors

[Bob Edwards]

On 27/09/13 09:30, Miles Goodhew wrote:
> All,
>    In one of the many rabbit-holes we went down in Bob's dense and
> riveting talk(s) last night, we touched on knitting your own CPU out
> of transistors. In that vein, here's a video from Jeri Ellsworth
> (Possibly most famous for developing the C-One reconfigurable FPGA
> computer and the Commodore-64 Direct-TV ASIC-based derivation from it)
> - baking her own transistor from a silicon wafer.
>    Now if we can just work-out how to ferment silicon wafers out of
> sand, we can go from beating each other to death with jawbones one day
> to flying cars the next!
>
> Chip-baking video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_znRopGtbE
> C64 DTV Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV
>
> M0les.
>

Thanks for the links, M0les. Jeri is certainly a very inspirational
hacker and a very clear communicator. We need more like her.

Cheers,

Bob Edwards (using that "very" word a few more times...)