🎙️ Tim "mithro" Ansell: wafer.space // Hackster Café

Tim is a champion of open source, affordable silicon fabrication. Their latest endeavor, wafer.space, brings PCB-style pooled manufacturing to custom chips. You can start by taping out your own chip for $200 via Tiny Tapeout (doable for high schoolers) – or jump right into a $7K USD, 1,000-part order with wafer.space, in a collaboration that expands upon the same workflows.
In this live chat, we'll hear about Tim's progress with the first run, which smashed its goal on Crowd Supply last November. You may also pick up some tips on crowdfunding, thanks to Tim's long history with Tomu, NeTV2, and more.

Links:
// wafer.space main page: https://wafer.space
// Crowd Supply campaign for the wafer.space first run: https://www.crowdsupply.com/wafer-space/gf180mcu-run-1/
// wafer.space first run on GitHub: https://github.com/wafer-space/ws-run1
// Tiny Tapeout collaboration: https://www.crowdsupply.com/wafer-space/gf180mcu-run-1/updates/tiny-tapeout
// Cool examples of custom open-source chips: https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/post/year_update_2025/#best-of-2025