The General Approach to Computing - A Ramble

Jim Battle frustum at pacbell.net
Fri Apr 24 15:40:54 CDT 2009


Brent Hilpert wrote:
> Jim Battle wrote:
>> Jeri Ellsworth built some FETs and simple gates at home -- but she said
>> it took two years to figure out how to make it work, and she needed some
>> equipment (like vacuum chambers) that few people have at home.  It was
>> far from simple.
>>
>> http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=8067618
>>
>> Yes, that is a FET, not bipolar.  If you have some links for making
>> simple bipolar transistors, please supply some.  It will make for some
>> interesting reading.
> 
> Jim, I'm guessing you mistakenly pasted the wrong link in there.
> 

Indeed (that was last night's bike ride).  I guess I forgot to hit ^C to 
pick up the link I had intended, which was:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeriellsworth/2835524263/in/photostream/



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