Fun with 1.1GHz Potato chips

I built a ring oscillator using a 1.125GHz 74 series logic inverter IC from Potato Semiconductor. It was fun.

[playerguy]

"and I found that blowing on the chip makes it run faster"
*blows on potato chip*
*wave goes to the right*
I laughed way too much at that.

[Debraj]

You made a TCO = temperature controlled oscillator. A pretty sophisticated way to measure temperature.

[mikeselectricstuff]

Leaving the unused pins open may be contributing to the instabiliy & power draw

[tylerhoban]

"In conclusion, Electronics are fun and naming your company after a dad joke is a great idea!"
*HUGH MUNGUS* Inc.

[zeekjones]

"You could make a short range bluetooth jammer... But I'm not going to show you that."

Aww, darn. Take all the fun away. :P

[samarium]

Now I'll just wait for Tomato Transistors and Cucumber Resistors and Sausage capacitors!
hehe

[osity]

"Naming your company after a dad joke is a great idea."

[foobarables]

1:40 The construction of the circuit is actually quit good if the decoupling cap is located where it should be (but that's something you'll know about). A dead bug style circuit can have very low stray capacitance. The property you want for this type of circuit.

[TreyKeown]

Laughed out loud when you blew on it to speed it up!

Thanks for showing this company - I'm working on a 74xx CPU design right now and this is perfect for updates I'd planned for revision 2!

[catsoften]

so you can make an actual potato computer ;)

[giganetom]

Thank you sir. I've been waiting for these for years. The 7474 analog is a great little part for my SDR project (for a quadrature divider). At $2-$3 these are hot little potato chips indeed. :)

[antonnpn]

Well, I'll pay 1$ for Bluetooth jammer video:)

[TomBurkeii]

You can limit the effect of your o-scope by driving a 4th inverter, and taking the output from it.

[warlockd]

God, now I want to build one of those 70's era diy cpu kits out of this ttl logic.

[misaalanshori]

This is still one of my favorite YouTube video lol

[michaelsworkshop]

Back in 1986, I used to call Radio Shack and say "Hi, I wanted to know if you have an RCA CA-3080 transconductance operational amplifier potato chip?". They'd ask me to repeat it a couple of times, unsure if I actually said "potato".

I was a legend in my own mind.

[Aerox]

**Listens carefully and occasionally nodding in agreement**
(Meanwhile inside my head) "I have absolutely no idea what this tech-wizard is talking about (。ᴗ°)"

[Flankymanga]

Can you please make the latest video about electrolytic capacitors avaliable for all countries? I am prohibited to watch it...

[kaumohlamonyane]

2:01 Please show us how to do that, rather than telling us how to do that😁😉

[SummonerArthur]

*Fun Fact:* There's a potato chip inside the SEGA's VMU.