YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs
A YouTuber on a mission to liberate semiconductor manufacturing from the grip of multinational megacorporations is back with a new round of DIY success, this time manufacturing working LEDs in his backyard fab.
Dr. Semiconductor, also known as semiconductor engineer Dr. Matthew Hartensveld, per his recently launched website, first caught the internet’s attention five months ago when he built a class-100 cleanroom in a shed in his backyard. Back in April, we wrote about his successful project to build his own DRAM in the clean shed, and the video he posted over the weekend on building his own LEDs follows that project with more ingenious success.
Hartensveld’s decision to construct his own LEDs is directly connected to his RAMbitions, mind you - this isn’t some side project to light stuff up for fun.
As Hartensveld notes in the video’s introduction, working DRAM cells are great, but they’re a...
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