![Screenshot of youtube.com: Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/20/d0c24d10-4ef5-497d-b845-e709744b58ac.jpg)
Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video](youtube.com)
60 points by jackdoe | 8 comments
A 13-minute YouTube video by Dr.Semiconductor demonstrating how to make solar panels using a microwave as part of the fabrication process.
#semiconductor-fabrication on Hacker News
4 stories tagged semiconductor-fabrication, newest first.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Making RAM at Home [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/4/22/b9519d3a-7df0-49af-bee5-6355301e2055.jpg)
Making RAM at Home [video](youtube.com)
571 points by kaipereira | 162 comments
YouTube video by Dr.Semiconductor, about 18 minutes long, documenting an attempt to fabricate RAM memory chips at home.
Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab(sam.zeloof.xyz)
333 points by embedding-shape | 76 comments
Sam Zeloof's blog post about the Z2, a homemade 1000+ transistor array chip made by lithography in his garage fab, following his 2018 Z1 amplifier.
Hacker Fab(docs.hackerfab.org)
417 points by ipnon | 129 comments
Documentation home for Hacker Fab, an open-source project aiming to make integrated circuit prototyping as fast and accessible as 3D printing.