Found a guy named Sam Zeloof who made the world's first homemade silicon chip in his garage fab 5 or so years ago

- Sam has a YouTube channel with a bunch of videos of him working on his lab (www.youtube.com/@SamZeloof)

- Z2, his v2 homemade chip made 4 years ago has 100 transistors in it (www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg)

- He co-founded a company called Atomic Semi (atomicsemi.com) couple of years ago to continue working on making chips and building things from scratch if needed. They already seem to have a team of 50+ people and hiring a bunch more (check their careers page)

- He also started Hack Fab (hackerfab.org) with a couple of other guys, which is trying to be an open source semiconductor fab. Check out their docs docs.hackerfab.org/home and their Discord server discord.gg/hacker-fab-1143959339179200562, they have a lot of good crowdsourced resources

There is hope 🌕