http://www.amazon.com/General-Purpose-Transistor-2N3904-NPN/dp/B004J5ZWEQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365805741&sr=8-1&keywords=NPN+transistors
Buy about 50,000 of those, then get started by turning them into standard logic gates, and then design a hardware description, and then build it with your transistors. Simple and easy. Except it'll take you a few thousand years to construct it by hand.
On a serious note. Your best bet for making your own hardware miner is forgetting about ASIC and going with FPGA.
http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de2/unv-de2-board.html
It'll cost you 200-ish if you can convince them you're buying for educational purposes. Just get some existing FPGA miner and plonk it down.
Buy about 50,000 of those, then get started by turning them into standard logic gates, and then design a hardware description, and then build it with your transistors. Simple and easy. Except it'll take you a few thousand years to construct it by hand.
On a serious note. Your best bet for making your own hardware miner is forgetting about ASIC and going with FPGA.
http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de2/unv-de2-board.html
It'll cost you 200-ish if you can convince them you're buying for educational purposes. Just get some existing FPGA miner and plonk it down.