Category Archives: Electrical

Progression (Finally)

Posted on March 20, 2010 by nikolae

A quick post today: After working out some snags with new chemicals, this past week has finally afforded me some actual progress on my wafer lithography. I’ll explain later as I document the multi-month process, but for now here’s a … Continue reading →

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Cheap Wireless Communications!

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Corey Webster

Here’s a quick post for you home automatuers. Screw protocol stacks with their complex encryption, hand-shaking, UID long addresses, IP addresses, MAC addresses, complex Moore state-machines, SYN-ACK-NACK-Crap! What you want is unadulterated, untampered, raw speeds deep into the hundreds, if … Continue reading →

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Wireless Communications

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Corey Webster

This has been an interest of mine for a while and I have researched and developed a few ways to achieve communication over the air. Here goes… The MRF24J40 is a chip developed by Microchip that allows for 2.4Ghz communication … Continue reading →

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Microlectronics Wafer Furnaces

Posted on February 13, 2010 by nikolae

Just wanted to share some pictures I snapped today of the three furnaces in action (all at once!) at different temperatures. This was the first time that all three were active at the same time (drawing ~90-100Amps). Look closely and … Continue reading →

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CMOS Inverter; 300 micrometers

Posted on January 20, 2010 by nikolae

Continuing yesterday’s posting, here is another part from the senior project folder. This time a CMOS inverter (NOT gate). Positive and negative power is applied to the device, which will inverse a given input at the output. This inverter was … Continue reading →

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