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by masklinn 5226 days ago
> You can make your own transistor quite easily

Not from scratch no. Not even with all the intermediate knowledge available but none of the tooling and technology. Unless by "quite easily" you mean "in under a dozen generations".
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bwarp 5226 days ago
Rubbish! http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2010/make_a_transis...
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masklinn 5225 days ago
You're joking right? Taking apart an existing diode to build a transistor from it comes nowhere close to making the transistor from scratch. Not to mention the clamps and files, the microscope, the phosphorous bronze for the contacts, ...

This video is great, but it's a century or two of progress away from "from scratch".

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