Conversation with #hplusroadmap at Thu 27 Mar 2008 04:50:00 PM CDT on kanzure@irc.freenode.net (irc)

(2008-03-27 16:50:00) The topic for #hplusroadmap is: happy bunny day - day of the replicator!
(2008-03-27 16:51:11) kanzure: I need an electron gun.
(2008-03-27 16:53:51) kanzure: http://www.pctechguide.com/images/42CRTAnatomy.jpg
(2008-03-27 16:53:54) kanzure: Doesn't look too bad.
(2008-03-27 18:11:31) kanzure: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=255007;cid=19977293 `I had an atari 800 xl years ago (circa 1980s). A friend had spilled milk on the keyboard and a number of keys stopped responding. My 'solution' involved opening up the keyboard and retracing the mylar sheet connections with a pencil. It worked great -- but I needed to crack it open every few weeks and retrace it. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you are fairly clever and poor.`
(2008-03-27 19:41:40) fenn [n=pz@adsl-76-251-80-155.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net] entered the room.
(2008-03-27 19:45:34) fenn: lol @ biofuels in space
(2008-03-27 19:46:18) fenn: just use hydrogen
(2008-03-27 19:46:46) fenn: or better yet, a mass driver or ion rocket
(2008-03-27 19:50:25) kanzure: fenn:
(2008-03-27 19:50:29) kanzure: fenn: http://heybryan.org/graphene.html
(2008-03-27 19:50:37) kanzure: sheet of graphene + e-beam lithography = win
(2008-03-27 19:50:41) kanzure: = microprocessors
(2008-03-27 19:53:47) fenn: i like it
(2008-03-27 19:54:06) fenn: how do you make semiconductors out of graphene?
(2008-03-27 19:55:28) fenn: in an electron microscope, the e-beam starts out at a hot tungsten disc - that's the 'image'
(2008-03-27 19:55:56) kanzure: oh
(2008-03-27 19:55:57) kanzure: sorry
(2008-03-27 19:56:01) fenn: you would have to make a mask that blocks electrons while they are still relatively diffuse
(2008-03-27 19:56:02) kanzure: another method would be to use STM
(2008-03-27 19:56:05) kanzure: apply voltage from tungsten tip of STM
(2008-03-27 19:56:11) kanzure: I will be going soon, so I must be quick
(2008-03-27 19:56:13) kanzure: and my website
(2008-03-27 19:56:14) kanzure: save a copy
(2008-03-27 19:56:23) fenn: your web's going down?
(2008-03-27 19:56:25) kanzure: yes
(2008-03-27 19:56:28) kanzure: dad is pulling the plug
(2008-03-27 19:56:37) fenn: can you send me a copy of the wiki db?
(2008-03-27 19:56:42) kanzure: uh, I'll be back tomorrow
(2008-03-27 19:56:46) fenn: oh ok
(2008-03-27 19:56:48) kanzure: but let me see if I can get it within the next 2 minutes ;)
(2008-03-27 19:57:47) kanzure: hm, I don't have the export db mod installed
(2008-03-27 19:57:50) kanzure: anyway, here's my idea
(2008-03-27 19:57:53) kanzure: use the $100 STM projects
(2008-03-27 19:58:05) kanzure: and apply a voltage to a sheet of graphene
(2008-03-27 19:58:10) kanzure: with some sort of photoresist or etchant over it
(2008-03-27 19:58:19) kanzure: this will be slow, but there's a Harvard group that has done something like this
(2008-03-27 19:58:24) kanzure: not with graphene, but with STMs/AFMs in general
(2008-03-27 19:58:33) kanzure: anyway, it's slow scanning obviously but that might be okay
(2008-03-27 19:58:45) kanzure: the trick is the synthesis for graphene as far as I can tell
(2008-03-27 19:58:51) kanzure: I include some links on my graphene.html file for this
(2008-03-27 19:58:58) kanzure: links to Sigma-Aldrich to purchase the chemicals, I mean
(2008-03-27 19:59:03) kanzure: good luck getting it up to 1000 deg Celsius,
(2008-03-27 19:59:04) fenn: http://pastebin.ca/956457 <- this is a rough draft at the autogenix format
(2008-03-27 19:59:06) kanzure: that might require a chamber of some sort
(2008-03-27 19:59:18) kanzure: hm
(2008-03-27 19:59:25) kanzure: isn't there neighborhood wireless from neighbors and so on
(2008-03-27 19:59:30) kanzure: ?
(2008-03-27 19:59:45) fenn: was that to me?
(2008-03-27 20:00:10) kanzure: yes
(2008-03-27 20:00:21) fenn: my phone line is staticky and it's killing the DSL modem - i'm out of range of neighbors
(2008-03-27 20:00:34) fenn: i can go to the library or whatever, but the phone guy is coming tomorrow
(2008-03-27 20:01:44) kanzure: who the fuck pulls the internet plug to their own child
(2008-03-27 20:01:52) kanzure: I don't think he understands the idea of a web server
(2008-03-27 20:02:26) fenn: i dont understand, he's taking down your server because you spend too much time on the net?
(2008-03-27 20:02:32) kanzure: no
(2008-03-27 20:02:44) kanzure: he's taking down my server because I get in to bickerings with my brother
(2008-03-27 20:03:31) kanzure: it's one of those situations where he thinks I am mentally retarded
(2008-03-27 20:03:42) fenn: obviously..
(2008-03-27 20:03:43) kanzure: and the dad can't punish him since he's a favorite and doesn't use the net
(2008-03-27 20:03:46) kanzure: there's no way to punish the kid
(2008-03-27 20:03:52) kanzure: since he doesn't use the net, he doesn't really use a phone all that much
(2008-03-27 20:04:00) kanzure: doesn't have many friends
(2008-03-27 20:04:06) kanzure: so he can get away with putting me in weird situations
(2008-03-27 20:04:28) fenn: break his bb gun! >:)
(2008-03-27 20:04:41) fenn: surely he must do something