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Lemmy, who are your favorite small-time content creators? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by justdoit@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I’m talking YouTube channels with a few thousand views, streamers with single digit viewers, writers who only get a few reads on their submissions.

Since the fediverse is all about boosting connection to smaller voices, let’s share the love!

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[–] bricklove@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, he's got a lot of equipment though. I was hoping I could just setup a jig with 2x4s and melt sand with a blowtorch

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most of it isn't strictly necessary. Like, he has sputtering equipment for making layers that can't be chemically deposited for example. The one where he makes a MOSFET on camera involves just spin coating with tape and some random motor, a little tube furnace to bake impurities in and chemical etching IIRC.

He uses commercially available blank wafers; you'd need a small arc furnace (or at least a blast furnace and patience when your product is mostly iron) to make silicon from sand and something resembling a meth lab to clean it (and then you'd grow and cut your wafer, but that could be done on a desk I'm sure).