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No store-bought transistors for these guys -- they homebrew their own point contact transistors using a bit of Germanium from a diode.  This...

Hang your heads in shame, my friends.  This dude is getting ready to homebrew his own transistors.  None of that store-bought stuff for him....

https://hackaday.com/2021/12/11/has-diy-become-click-and-buy/ Hack-A-Day today asks about the boundaries between DIY construction and the us...

Sam Zeloof KD2ENL does some really inspirational work on the homebrewing of IC chips.  We first posted about this back in 2018, when Sam was...

Seventeen year-old Sam Zeelof, KD2ENL, is making his own integrated circuits in his garage.  Wow.  This makes me think about another se...

Thanks to Armand WA1UQO for alerting me to this.  I really liked the book -- "Crystal Fire" -- that this 1999 video is loosely b...

http://www.beatriceco.com/bti/porticus/bell/belllabs_transistor1.html I dunno.... Roswell?  Really?  But I find myself attracted to any...

So you are using store-bought transistors eh?  APPLIANCE OPERATOR! Check out Jeri Ellsworth's very impressive production of NMOS t...

None of those store-bought parts for Jeri Ellsworth! Once again she makes us all look like a bunch of pathetic appliance operators. I like...