Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
by l-lousy on Sunday January 23, 2022 @09:08AM
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Well he’s (Sam) very likely still living at home, so parents are paying for most things. Plus he has the revenue from YouTube
Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
by temp8964 on Sunday January 23, 2022 @11:30AM
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I am not sure about his case, but it's not very hard for a talent student to get $1k scholarship every month. That's lot of money to use if he does not need to pay for his living expenses.
Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
by rdtwo on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:12PM
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Yeah I mean so what. College room and board is 30-50k I’m sure he can get the microscope running for less than that
Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
by was_a_dev on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:39PM
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My PhD is funded by a research council and my stipend is £12k. After rent, food and bills there is some room.
But it's laughable to think I could repair and run an electron microscope. Already mentioned, finding a broken microscope for £1k wouldn't happen here. And you're seriously underestimating the resource requirements to operate such a machine
Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
by rdtwo on Sunday January 23, 2022 @01:48PM
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If my public middle school could do that in some back room closet it can’t be that bad.
For reference in us costs and spend your public stipend is less than my city spends per person on homeless folks and half of minimum wage. I think we’re taking different scales of money.
These kinds of projects are open to the top 5-10% of earners in the us so 15million or so folks could fund this but only 1-2 actually do it.
Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
by was_a_dev on Sunday January 23, 2022 @02:04PM
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The whole point of my comments were the price scales are out of touch of most people.
Not to detract from the achivement. But there's some respect to how the challenges were overcome by the large budget
A 22 year old in the top 5% of earns is a very lucky man
Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
by kkjjkgjjgg on Sunday January 23, 2022 @03:34PM
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So find some professor at a university with an electron microscope and convince them to let you borrow it some times.
Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
by rdtwo on Sunday January 23, 2022 @03:43PM
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I think those days are over. Universitys are super corporate now they want to own everything you touch
Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
by kkjjkgjjgg on Sunday January 23, 2022 @03:47PM
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Ok then think of another cool project that doesn't require an electron microscope.
-They have some sort of windfall
-They have a trust fund or stipend that they receive just for existing
-Their parents pay for everything, or, alternatively, their parents pay for all of their living expenses so their own money is only "fun money."
-They, somehow, have a high paying job. In which case they probably won't be going to school full time also. Or they're "job" is having a lot of followers on social media.
This isn't a knock on anyone, I'm just trying to explain why one young adult student can be excited because they were finally able to save up for a soldering iron and another has a garage full of expensive experiment to tinker with.
It's pretty much implied this guy's living expenses (or most of them) are covered by his parents who also have tons of extra space and tolerance for him using it.