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t’s finally fall in Michigan: the leaves are
turning, there’s a chill in the air at night, and
endless fields heaving with copious pumpkins for
sale are suddenly materializing along rural roads.
Driving around the Metro Detroit area, these
fields of abundance are not uncommon at this
time of year.
But there’s another bumper crop
— one not so expected — that has
caught our eyes lately. It might be a
field, it might be a parking lot, but
it’s always a wide-open space, and
it’s filled with … brand new cars.
These are not ad-hoc car
dealerships, or the collections of
overzealous car enthusiasts. They are
millions of dollars of automotive liability,
paralyzed by pennies’ worth of parts. With dozens
of tiny microcontrollers built into even the most
basic modern vehicle, controlling everything from
cabin climate to advanced collision avoidance
systems, the global chip shortage has resulted
in countless cars lying fallow as they wait for that
one unobtainable chip.
Makers have been similarly scathed by scarcity,
with a dearth of dev boards leaving innumerable
projects uncultivated. But they are adapting in
the face of adversity: Instead of designing in
abstract only to find the shelves bare when it’s
time for production, products are being based on
the availability of parts, given known shortages
and ETAs. Boards are being laid out with multiple
footprints, so that, for example, any of three
different voltage regulators can be employed
depending on what’s in stock. Makers are
pivoting to abundant microcontrollers,
like the RP2040 and ESP32. They’re
stepping out of their comfort zones
and trying less well-known single-
board computers, or running their
Python code on microcontrollers
instead when SBCs aren’t plentiful.
Or even moving to new instruction
set architectures like RISC-V when more
familiar processors are out of arm’s reach.
Hopefully the automakers will get their hands
on the chips they need, and future archeologists
won’t misinterpret these vehicles’ hulking
remains as a vain offering to the gods of silicon.
But ignoring potential automotive relics, we
observe with elation as our community breaks
free of constraints, crashes through supply chain
issues, and evolves new skills and methods
(which you can learn all about in this issue!).
To paraphrase Jurassic Park’s Dr. Ian Malcolm:
Makers, uh, find a way!
Keith Hammond
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