content: Make sure you tell everybody you know, especially those in government, that what this kid is doing is harmless and meaningless.      but this is on the level of those highschool girls that copied a nearly 100 year old crop growing technique,      No it isn't, nobody is etching chips in their garage, it doesn't matter if it's learning to replicate an older chip at the workable scale, it's still useful that this kid is working the bugs out of DIY integrated circuits. You don't actually have to have a quad core processor running at 3 GHZ 'with loads of cache and RAM to actually do useful things, we went to the moon on a guidance computer with a 16 bit 2MHZ processor with about 74KB of ROM and 4KB of RAM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer