
I
n last year’s Boards Guide, the overarching
themes were scarcity and how vendors and
makers coped with ongoing supply chain failures.
Some industry experts even predicted that things
might never fully return to normal, but thankfully
the debacle is easing this year. As depicted on
the cover, maker titans Arduino and Raspberry
Pi are both back with new flagship boards in the
form of the Uno R4 and Pi 5 respectively. As I type
this, rpilocator.com is showing pagefuls of in-
stock listings for pretty much the full Raspberry
Pi product range, and I see hundreds of the
latest Arduino Uno in stock at DigiKey, SparkFun,
Pimoroni, and our own Maker ...