I love having a relationship with the lowest levels of our craft. Access to an electron microscope and decapping chips to make my own reimplementions (in software) is next on my bucket list. If chip lithograph wasn't so prohibitively expensive I'd also try my hand at that...
Very cool! I meant more hands on diy fab, like how I make my own pcbs. It seems farming out my designs to be produced (hdl->chip) at reasonable one-off costs is a plausible avenue now, which is exciting as well. I've probably been exposed to too many toxic chemicals already anyways and should readjust my bucketlist plans...
