Nördnytt! 🤓Making RAM at Home [video]
- readitalready - 21316 sekunder sedanI only buy free-range artisanal DRAM at the DRAM farmer's market.
- LPisGood - 23337 sekunder sedanI saw this video yesterday and considered posting it, but I wasn’t sure if it was appropriate for HN.
This channel has another video where it shows how the clean room lab is created starting from a basic backyard shed, and that was truly astounding. The positive pressure to keep the number of particles low in someone’s backyard is almost mystical to me.
- p0w3n3d - 19161 sekunder sedan
1999. We will have flying cars 2024. LLMs - there will be robots 2026. How to make your own RAM - the-smug-one - 15049 sekunder sedanSo, I get that we charge the capacitor up, and that it leaks so we must recharge it periodically. I don't get two things:
1. How is the value read? Is it reading the leak?
2. How is recharging done? I guess the leak itself (assuming my guess in 1. holds) could provide charge for some logic that checks "if has charge then recharge else nop".
I still don't really get transistors :P, but this was cool.
- apatheticonion - 14986 sekunder sedanI'm not sure this is what they meant when they said they wanted to bring manufacturing back to the USA lol
- jukkan - 18482 sekunder sedan"There is no DownloadMoreRAM, it's just some guy in a backyard shed."
- dlcarrier - 112641 sekunder sedanThis guy is proof that newcomers to YouTube can still succeed, if they find the right niche.
- kennywinker - 19537 sekunder sedanNobody tell openai about this, they’ll buy up all his stock
- readitalready - 20332 sekunder sedanBackyard semiconductor production is pretty similar to backyard barbecue. Lots of heating, smoking (diffusion), injecting (ion implant), and layering..
- fastjack42 - 9849 sekunder sedanTechnologies that were considered "high-tech" 20-30 years ago are now accessible to regular people. Making DRAM. I remember a video recently of a guy making his own floppy disks. Next I expect people to manufacture integrated circuits that have been discontinued. Like the Z80
- Rendello - 119878 sekunder sedanI wasn't expecting what the inside of the shed would be like!
- debo_ - 22615 sekunder sedanMom: We have RAM at home!
RAM at home:
- jandhdhshhh - 19155 sekunder sedanThis is incredible! 1100 degrees in your backyard shed! And the video explains it well too
- clauderx - 8774 sekunder sedanYou're telling me we can free download more RAM now?
- darrenc81 - 7916 sekunder sedanOh man my shed could never be this clean
- schmeichel - 23908 sekunder sedanSubscribed. Genuinely looking forward to what this gent gets up to.
- ReptileMan - 14583 sekunder sedanWe need to be able to make semiconductors at home for computing freedom to be preserved the way the world is going.
- yuvrajmalgat - 7173 sekunder sedansuch good idea ( so called home made )
- CamperBob2 - 23325 sekunder sedanSpoiler: we never actually get to see the RAM tested
- shevy-java - 7259 sekunder sedanConsidering how AI companies and older hardware manufacturing companies are driving up the RAM prices - thus, milking all of us ultimately - I think 3D printing needs to become the new default. And affordable too, eventually (it already is, for cheap things, e. g. plastics or PLA based printing, this is often much cheaper than ordering this from a company, but I mean with regards to computer systems too. Naturally right now we are far away from the nanoscale here, but I see this simply as a situation that will change eventually, given enough time).
Those AI companies and hardware manufacturers lost all right to further dictate and increase prices. Capitalism does not work as de-facto blackmail monopoly - or should not. If a state fails to protect the people, such as in the USA right now under the orange king, then the people need to insist on change. ALL steps against this tyranny from a few superrich needs to end.
Right now the legislation is going in the way how lobbyists want this, e. g. trying to make 3D printing illegal, but I think technology will obsolete such illegal laws eventually. Tyranny will eventually fail.