{"id":646,"date":"2021-08-09T16:33:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:33:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:33:47","slug":"the-great-global-semiconductor-shortage-for-makers-and-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/the-great-global-semiconductor-shortage-for-makers-and-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Global Semiconductor Shortage &#8212; for makers and artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/maker-manufacturers-squeezed-chip-shortage\">https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/maker-manufacturers-squeezed-chip-shortage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much has been written about how the Great Global Semiconductor Shortage has affected automakers, game console manufacturers, and other companies making commercial products. But tinkerers, prototypers, artists, and students making their own projects are also getting hit hard.<\/p>\n<p> Technology often filters into the maker scene by way of manufacturers that cater to hobbyists\u2014they do the hard work of putting new chips with new capabilities onto easy-to-interface breakout boards; developing drivers and libraries that work with existing programing ecosystems like that around Arduino microcontrollers or Raspberry Pi single board computers; and writing documentation and tutorials so that folks don&#8217;t have to try parsing enigmatic datasheets by themselves. <\/p>\n<p>In turn, ideas from the maker community bubble back up into industrial settings, often via engineers seeking quick or inexpensive solutions to problems\u2014consequently both the Raspberry Pi and Arduino lines now feature pro products designed for commercial embedded systems. <\/p>\n<p>But over the last few months it seemed that manufacturers catering to makers were offering fewer and fewer new products in addition to posting a lot of &#8220;out of stock&#8221; notices on existing ones, with a knock-on effect on the maker scene as a whole. As the editor responsible for IEEE Spectrum&#8217;s Hands On DIY section, it&#8217;s taken longer and longer each month to find projects incorporating interesting new capabilities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/maker-manufacturers-squeezed-chip-shortage Much has been written about how the Great Global Semiconductor Shortage has affected automakers, game console manufacturers, and other companies making commercial products. But tinkerers, prototypers, artists, and students making their own projects are also getting hit hard. Technology often filters into the maker scene by way of manufacturers that cater to hobbyists\u2014they do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Great Global Semiconductor Shortage -- for makers and artists | Artmaker Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Great Global Semiconductor Shortage -- for makers and artists | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/the-great-global-semiconductor-shortage-for-makers-and-artists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Great Global Semiconductor Shortage -- for makers and artists | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Great Global Semiconductor Shortage -- for makers and artists | Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/the-great-global-semiconductor-shortage-for-makers-and-artists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Artmaker Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-09T15:33:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bruce Sterling\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/\",\"name\":\"Artmaker Blog\",\"description\":\"on Toshareproject.it - curated by Bruce Sterling\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/the-great-global-semiconductor-shortage-for-makers-and-artists\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/the-great-global-semiconductor-shortage-for-makers-and-artists\/\",\"name\":\"The Great Global Semiconductor Shortage -- for makers and artists | Artmaker Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-09T15:33:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-09T15:33:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/#\/schema\/person\/6f20726ed2761431f3e0ff4e096c3085\"},\"description\":\"The Great Global Semiconductor Shortage -- for makers and artists | Artmaker Blog\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/the-great-global-semiconductor-shortage-for-makers-and-artists\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/the-great-global-semiconductor-shortage-for-makers-and-artists\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/the-great-global-semiconductor-shortage-for-makers-and-artists\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Great Global Semiconductor Shortage &#8212; 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