{"id":6596,"date":"2018-05-16T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/05\/16\/youngest-homebrew-hero-17-year-old-sam-zeelof-makes-his-own-integrated-circuits\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:18:22","slug":"youngest-homebrew-hero-17-year-old-sam-zeelof-makes-his-own-integrated-circuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/05\/16\/youngest-homebrew-hero-17-year-old-sam-zeelof-makes-his-own-integrated-circuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngest Homebrew Hero: 17 year-old Sam Zeelof Makes His Own Integrated Circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seventeen year-old Sam Zeelof, KD2ENL, is making his own integrated circuits in his garage. <\/b>

<\/b> Wow. This makes me think about another seventeen year-old — the fellow who appears on pages 63-64 of Cliff DeSoto’s “200 Meters and Down.” (I have the story on page 81 of “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics.”) In the early days of radio that kid amazed us by making his own vacuum tubes. Sam Zeelof is clearly following in that tradition. <\/b>

<\/b> No “mysterious black boxes” for Sam! No “appliance chips” for him! FB OM. <\/b>

<\/b> This is really amazing. Here are the links: <\/b>

<\/b> https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/semiconductors\/devices\/the-high-school-student-whos-building-his-own-integrated-circuits<\/b><\/a> <\/p>\n


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http:\/\/sam.zeloof.xyz\/category\/semiconductor\/<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n

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One of Sam’s chips<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Thanks to Bruce KC1FSZ for alerting us to this amazing work.<\/b> <\/p>\n

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Seventeen year-old Sam Zeelof, KD2ENL, is making his own integrated circuits in his garage. Wow. This makes me think about another seventeen year-old — the fellow who appears on pages 63-64 of Cliff DeSoto’s “200 Meters and Down.” (I have the story on page 81 of “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics.”) In the … Continue reading “Youngest Homebrew Hero: 17 year-old Sam Zeelof Makes His Own Integrated Circuits”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264,392,172,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homebrew-hero","category-homebrew-transistors","category-integrated-circuits","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6599,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions\/6599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}