I love stuff like this. One thing I've wanted for awhile, but not been able to find is off the shelf ASIC making. For instance, you could take a design like this, or something built for FPGAs, and then turn that into a contract manufacturer who would produce screens and then custom ASICs in low volume.<p>You can do this with PCBs and just about every other part of the hardware stack, but not ASICs.<p>Part of the reason, of course, is that laying out an ASIC is a time consuming and expensive proposition-- but I wonder if there isn't a huge opportunity to write software to take a FPGA configuration and algorithmically turn it into the screens to do lithography, which could then be sent to a fab. Of course you'd have to require specific processes and pre-defined submodules that represent the various gates.<p>Back when there was no ASICs for the scrypt hash I wanted to make one.<p>Anyway, I think there might be a huge opportunity there for someone with the skills.