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Does inventing an alternative to semiconductors to realize Verilog at home makes your brain melt too? Magnetic amplifiers, ferroelectric capacitors, micro PCB vacuum tubes, conductive pastes, 3D printing.... I still am in search of how a tinkerer (or a maker!) can replace their dependency on silicon. You see. I'm a complex systems builder. You can't manually solder any of the designs I tinker with. Not from discrete components. Not even with scanning printing. Only photolithography can withstand that scale.

But can we find something easier to achieve than silicon chips?????????????????