PUTTING THE NO IN ARDUINO?
Arduino Week in March was a brilliant virtual
event, showcasing amazing new products — but
frustrated makers couldn’t get their hands on
many items being showcased because supply
issues prevented them from being manufactured.
But even when there’s no hardware to hack
on, software development can continue, which
led to the release of the new Arduino IDE 2.0 in
September. The complete ground-up rewrite
ditches 1.x’s Java-based Processing origins
for the Eclipse Theia framework, familiar from
Microsoft’s wildly popular and extensible Visual
Studio Code IDE. Read more about it on our blog
at makezine.com/go/arduino-ide-2 — and flip to
page 47 in this section to sneak an exclusive peek
at Arduino’s exciting new Make Your Uno kit!
PI NOT ALWAYS EASY
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is finding great
success in the microcontroller market, as its Pico
and new Pico W (wireless) microcontroller dev
boards find their way into a plethora of projects,
not to mention the RP2040 chip that powers
them. Meanwhile the trend of porting Python
projects to microcontrollers using Adafruit’s
CircuitPython platform — instead of relying
on the grunt of single-board computers —
continues to prove popular, benefiting
the whole RP2040 ecosystem.
But not everything is so sweet
in Pi world, with SBCs practically
unobtainable for as long as we can
remember. If you check rpilocator.com every day,
you may be lucky enough to get your hands on a
CM4 compute module, which you can pair with
a carrier board like Timonsku’s Piunora, but the
stalwart Pi 4 is often only available via secondary
markets, typically for several times list price.
NO NEW NORMAL
Some experts predict we’ll see things back to
“normal” or at least stabilizing by 2023. In the
meantime, we revel in the novel solutions and
workarounds we see in the community, and we
hope this special section, and our annual Make:
Guide to Boards, help make your making a little
easier this year!
IN THIS SECTION:
NOW
BOARDING
IN THIS SECTION:
• WHEN CHIPS ARE SCARCE page 36
Scarcity continues to pinch makers and
manufacturers alike. We interviewed a
range of stakeholders from the supply
chain spectrum, from distributors and
big-name board makers down to individual
maker pros, to ask how they’re affected and
when — or if — supplies of components will
return to normal.
• RISC-V REVOLUTION page 42
If you can’t get the chips you want, why not
make your own? Open silicon is evolving
at an incredible pace, with RISC-V chip
architecture expanding from experimental
FPGAs into mainstream boards like
Espressif’s ESP32-C3. PINE64 is using
RISC-V MCUs in its Pinecils and working on
a 64-bit RISC-V single-board computer.Even
laptops and cyberdecks are going RISC-V,
with ClockworkPi offering an R-01 spec of
its popular DevTerm deck using Allwinner’s
D1 64-bit single-core RISC-V chip.
• THE REPLACEMENTS page 46
Makers are gonna make, whether there’s
a shortage or not. We’ve lined up some
recommendations for when your favorite
board turns unobtainium — use our
infographic to see what substitutes might
work for your next project!
• MAKE: GUIDE TO BOARDS 2022
Included in the bag with this mag, you’ll
find our 12-page Guide to Boards, new and
updated for 2022! We touch on top trends
and dive into details of 79 of the hottest
microcontrollers, single-board computers,
and FPGAs — with an emphasis on boards
you can get right now.
We also went hands-on with a dozen of
our favorite new and notable boards, which
you’ll find described in the guide as well as
in our exclusive video review. Don’t forget to
grab the Digi-Key AR app so you can watch
the video and see the featured boards come
alive before your eyes!
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