DIY micro fabrication

[Dave]

I just stumbled across a YouTube video of some university students making a simple MEMS device. Granted, it would require some setup and care to do well, but it's a little surprising how totally doable nearly every step appears for a not-completely-obsessed hobbyist. Granted, they don't show every step, and the plasma step in particular would probably take some work. But most of it seems to be things like vacuum pumps, spin-coating, acid etching, and wearing lots of Tyvek. ;)

http://youtu.be/PbF-hD5jnr0

So then 10 seconds of Googling later, I came across the "Home CMOS" project. Not sure how far they have to go before they have something working, but I thought it was cool (check out their nyanotech):

http://code.google.com/p/homecmos/

People with weird hobbies are awesome.