[kabdib]

Lovely stuff. I wonder how close you could get to making this stuff in your garage now, given a silicon wafer and maybe a vacuum chamber. (I imagine the etching chemicals would probably make you unpopular with your neighbors...)

[EvanAnderson]

She didn't do anything remotely this complicated, but a few years ago Jeri Ellsworth did do a couple videos of "homemade" ICs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdcKwOo7dmM