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Homebrew NMOS Transistor Step by Step - So Easy Even Jeri Can Do It

Jeri Ellsworth shows step by step how to make an NMOS transistor at home using a kiln, rust remover, spin-on dopant, eBay wafers and vinyl stickers.

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HN points to it as the classic example of home-made semiconductors and a fun way to go down to the transistor level.

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Check out Jeri Ellsworth's homebrow NMOS transistor for some real fun. Just get your bare silicon wafer from E-bay and have at it. [VIDEO]
rrmm on Hacker News · 2012-11
In Build your own FPGA
Jeri Ellsworth, for people who don't know, does really interesting hardware stuff. "TSA body imaging at home" ( [LINK] ) "Home made EL wire" ( [LINK] ) "Recording Audio onto floppy discs" ( [LINK] ) "Home made transistor" ( [LINK] ) "Homebrew NMOS transistor" ( …
DanBC on Hacker News · 2013-07
In Valve's flat management structure 'like high school'
Another book recommendation: "Elements of Computing Systems" by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken. It doesn't go all the way down to the physics of semiconductors, but it goes down to logic gates and all the way up to tetris (there's a related course/website called nand …
didericis on Hacker News · 2020-12
In Become Shell Literate

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