Mingle, Wed, Oct 8, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup The main event starts at 7:00 at Wagon Wheel BBQ in Mountain View. We have the room reserved starting at 6:30. No talks currently scheduled but there was some potential in

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Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup on Wed, 7:00 at Wagon Wheel BBQ. See you there!

I'll be on the Maker Faire "How to do Hard Stuff in Your Garage" panel at 3:30, Foundry Stage. Hope to see you there!

pretty sweet stickers too!

Our chips look the best, no competition!

Talks, tutorials, and mingle, Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup The main event starts at 7:00 at Wagon Wheel BBQ in Mountain View. We have the room reserved starting at 6:30. Talks: -Jacob C on“Unlocking an Encrypted Zip” (30 min) -Eri

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Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup tonight 7 pm at Wagon Wheel BBQ! Talks:
-Jacob C on“Unlocking an Encrypted Zip” (30 min)
-@tubetime.bsky.social on "Raspberry Pi reverse engineering" (30 min)

McMaster JSM-6460LV needs a new home Above: main unit. Things covered in aluminum foil are not included (modern vacuum gauge, screen, and fiber laser). More pictures here State of the microscope / known issues: TLDR: generally works, al...

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Hey all! Its unfortunately time to find a new home for my SEM. if you are interested take a look at this doc. TLDR: asking $2,250 OBO, pick up in Santa Clara CA. Other than that its best offer / whoever makes it easiest for me to move it on

Talks, tutorials, and mingle, Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup The main event starts at 7:00 at Wagon Wheel BBQ in Mountain View. We have the room reserved starting at 6:30. Talks: -Jacob C on“Unlocking an Encrypted Zip” (30 min) -Eri

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Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup 7:00 this Wed at Wagon Wheel BBQ! Talks:
-Jacob C on“Unlocking an Encrypted Zip” (30 min)
-TubeTime on "Raspberry Pi reverse engineering" (30 min)

I am extraordinarily disappointed with AWS / customer service who has been both difficult to reach and largely script based for something that requires intervention due to the bootstrapping issue. If anyone has any tips on how to expedite this process I would be very grateful!

I have been locked out of my labsmore.com accounts for the past week due to an expired credit card knocking out my DNS served with AWS route 53. I can't log into my AWS account to fix it since with DNS gone I can't receive a sign in code, or any other email for that matter

Maasi spin coater kit photoresist FOSS DIY semiconductor microfluidics | eBay Maasi spin coater. Mouthwash (photoresist analog to test / bring up system). Power cycling the unit fixes this. Our lab is working towards a Hacker Fab process that will likely include a 15 um process...

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Almost sold out of current Maasi spin coater inventory! Starting the next run to raise the current production from 14 to somewhere in the 20 to 24 range

This short is a bit old. FWIW since then I have the system running smoothly (with a bunch of jerry-rigging). I'll try to do an update post soon!

YouTube video by John McMaster PVD (metal thin film) system sketchy power wiring

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YouTube video by John McMaster Got a Polaron PVD evaporator

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Mingle, Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup The main event starts at 7:00 at Wagon Wheel BBQ in Mountain View. We have the room reserved starting at 6:30. Please support our hosts if you can by buying a drink or foo

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Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup TONIGHT, 7:00 at Wagon Wheel BBQ. See you there!

Want to support this project with your own professionally made Maasi? Get one here: bit.ly/get-maasi

YouTube video by John McMaster Maasi spin coater polypropylene vase print on Creality K2+

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Mingle, Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup The main event starts at 7:00 at Wagon Wheel BBQ in Mountain View. We have the room reserved starting at 6:30. Please support our hosts if you can by buying a drink or foo

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Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup this Wed, 7:00 at Wagon Wheel BBQ. See you then!

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Get more from John McMaster on Patreon creating chip images, MTVRE meetups, and FOSS tools

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Successfully printed a Maasi spin coater "vase" (fluid bucket) in polypropylene! This will ease concerns more aggressive solvents / photo-resists will dissolve conventional print materials

Yep! I might also reproduce Hayden's (WIP) simple transistor. Trying to get this approved to add to the repo

Yeah although it would *just* be the MVP metal layer right now. So it would be more of an artistic submission or something like a metal resistor than a real device until we have diode / MOSFET working / reliable

Right now its made in inkscape, you can find the first test files here
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I think the ideal first run would be to submit SVG and/or PNG for each layer and then aim for a simple PDK / GDS for the second run. I'd ideally like two layers: gold and overglass cut out