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Posted by kaipereira 1 day ago

Making RAM at Home [video](www.youtube.com)
475 points | 133 commentspage 3
rzgrozt 5 hours ago|
nowadays, we need cheap ram solutions :')
CamperBob2 12 hours ago||
Spoiler: we never actually get to see the RAM tested
eichin 12 hours ago|
The graphs towards the end were discharge curves for a single transistor/capacitor cell out of only 16 present, if I understood correctly? So "enough cells to count as memory" and "addressing logic" are definitely future work (it looked like he wanted to characterize what the refresh cycle would have to look like before actually building more.) I was kind of surprised that the "use a microscope as a photolithography projector" approach worked at all, it will be interesting to see how that scales up...
denkmoon 12 hours ago||
2 bytes of memory ought to be enough for anyone!
josephg 10 hours ago||
The Atari 2600 only had 128 bytes of ram. It’s not that far off…
yuvrajmalgat 8 hours ago||
such good idea ( so called home made )
shevy-java 8 hours ago|
Considering 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.

thenthenthen 6 hours ago|
Photolithography is way more practical, 3d printing principles are already used here in stepping of the mask.