{"id":127283,"date":"2021-09-05T18:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T01:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/meet-the-college-student-who-makes-his-own-chips"},"modified":"2021-09-05T18:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T01:22:19","slug":"meet-the-college-student-who-makes-his-own-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/meet-the-college-student-who-makes-his-own-chips","title":{"rendered":"Meet the College Student Who Makes His Own Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-college-student-who-makes-his-own-chips.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sam Zeloof, 21 builds homemade semiconductors in his family\u2019s garage in Flemington, N.J. (In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg\" class=\"\" rel=\"external \">latest video<\/a>, Zeloof refers to it casually as his \u201cgarage fab.\u201d) The Carnegie Mellon University student has been doing it since high school, becoming a truly inspiring example of just how far a do-it-yourself spirit can take you.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IS5ycm7VfXg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And best of all, he\u2019s documented it all in <a href=\"http:\/\/sam.zeloof.xyz\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"external \">detailed blog posts<\/a> and nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SamZeloof\/videos\" class=\"\" rel=\"external \">50 videos<\/a> uploaded to YouTube, sharing what he\u2019s learned for others who might follow in his footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that my success will inspire others,\u201d Zeloof writes in <a href=\"http:\/\/sam.zeloof.xyz\/first-ic\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"external \">an early blog post<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SamZeloof\/videos\" class=\"\" rel=\"external \">, \u201cand help start a revolution in home chip fabrication.<\/a> Let\u2019s democratize the tools of innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Zeloof, 21 builds homemade semiconductors in his family\u2019s garage in Flemington, N.J. (In his latest video, Zeloof refers to it casually as his \u201cgarage fab.\u201d) The Carnegie Mellon University student has been doing it since high school, becoming a truly inspiring example of just how far a do-it-yourself spirit can take you. And best [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}