YouTuber makes his own RAM in garden shed - which is certainly a novel way to beat the memory crisis

You may have debated the pros and cons of building your own PC, as opposed to buying a prebuilt, in the past - but have you ever considered building your own RAM sticks?

Well, it's the obvious solution to the memory crisis and sky-high RAM prices, after all. Isn't it?

As improbable as this seems, it is actually possible to fashion your own memory as a DIY effort, with Tom's Hardware having spotted a project from an intrepid YouTuber with a very well-equipped garden shed.

This is Dr Semiconductor's 'Making RAM at home' video (see it above), with the YouTuber observing: "I turned a shed in my back yard into a class 100 semiconductor cleanroom... but the question is, can I make my own RAM?"

And the answer is: yes, in a limited form, so there's a caveat here as you might anticipate. What the YouTuber ends up with is not a working RAM stick you can put in a PC (unsurprisingly), but a much smaller-scale affair.

A basic array of memory cells is the end result, but they work, and the process of making them is frankly amazing to watch happen in someone's shed. (Albeit there's a whole lot of fancy equipment involved, both in the making of these cells, and the testing that they actually work using micromanipulator probes).

Dr Semiconductor hopes that as the next stage of this endeavor, he can stitch a bunch of these cells together and actually hook them up to a PC to work as functional memory. That'll be something to see.