{"id":9645,"date":"2021-08-15T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/08\/15\/sam-kd2enls-homebrew-integrated-circuit-chips\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:36","slug":"sam-kd2enls-homebrew-integrated-circuit-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/08\/15\/sam-kd2enls-homebrew-integrated-circuit-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam KD2ENL&#8217;s Homebrew Integrated Circuit Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IS5ycm7VfXg?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Sam Zeloof KD2ENL does some really inspirational work on the homebrewing of IC chips. <\/b><b>We first posted about this back in 2018, when Sam was 17: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/youngest-homebrew-hero-17-year-old-sam.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/youngest-homebrew-hero-17-year-old-sam.html<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Sam has some very impressive gear &#8212; I found myself wondering if that could really be a home lab. But it is. It is apparently in his garage in New Jersey. Hack-A-Day reports that Sam got a lot of the gear on e-bay. And they note that living near Princeton University (great dumpsters!) also helped. <\/b><b>Here is some background on Sam&#8217;s workshop: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/11\/19\/of-roach-killer-and-rust-remover-sam-zeloofs-garage-made-chips\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/11\/19\/of-roach-killer-and-rust-remover-sam-zeloofs-garage-made-chips\/<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>and<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/02\/25\/the-fab-lab-next-door-diy-semiconductors\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/02\/25\/the-fab-lab-next-door-diy-semiconductors\/<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Sam and his brother Adam KD2MRG are students at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks to Hack-A-Day for alerting us to this: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/08\/14\/the-zeloof-z2-intergrated-circuit-has-100-transistors\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/08\/14\/the-zeloof-z2-intergrated-circuit-has-100-transistors\/<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Zeloof KD2ENL does some really inspirational work on the homebrewing of IC chips. We first posted about this back in 2018, when Sam was 17: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/youngest-homebrew-hero-17-year-old-sam.html Sam has some very impressive gear &#8212; I found myself wondering if that could really be a home lab. But it is. It is apparently in his garage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/08\/15\/sam-kd2enls-homebrew-integrated-circuit-chips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sam KD2ENL&#8217;s Homebrew Integrated Circuit Chips&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264,392,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homebrew-hero","category-homebrew-transistors","category-integrated-circuits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11442,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions\/11442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}