You're joking right? Taking apart an existing diode to build a transistor from it comes nowhere close to making the transistor from scratch. Not to mention the clamps and files, the microscope, the phosphorous bronze for the contacts, ...
This video is great, but it's a century or two of progress away from "from scratch".
masklinn|14 years ago
This video is great, but it's a century or two of progress away from "from scratch".