There has been a phrase around for awhile and that is ‘Peak Stuff’. Does not really need explaining but broadly speaking, how much stuff do we need and how much of that has already been made, and do we need to make any more? It applies more than anything to us in the west. It might swing wildly in the other direction, and already has done in certain areas. If you can run your whole life from a smart phone and a laptop, like your work, your entertainment, your finances, your social life, and all communication etc and you eat out all the time and don’t mind where you sleep, do you need a home? A car? What other stuff do you need other than that you can carry? Just a thought!
People may be coming down from covid buying binges, pausing before holiday shopping, realizing that shipping can be a mess now and waiting for purchases from weeks or months ago already. Leading to a lull in some shopping.
Seems highly likely, I have stuff in transit that is taking a long time to get here from China. No evidence here of a recession at all, lots of money being spent on home renovation, new cars (long waits) and consumer electronics. My employer is consistently selling out in some product categories, sales are > 20% higher in most categories than pre-pandemic. Lots of job openings everywhere and no people to fill them.
I did not know about GigaDevice, but it would tax my feeble brain cells too much to rewrite the code that I have been writing off and on for nearly 4 years. It's all based on the Arduino environment and some specific Freescale / NXP chips. The low level pin drivers and libraries are beyond my abilities in the code writing department. For now I'll just use Teensy boards for the peripheral hardware development, and do the processor / audio stuff last if the project ever gets bigger than a one or two off.
The music synthesizer stuff is mostly based on the drag and drop audio library at PJRC. Making a synthesizer or lots of other audio devices is simple glue code and drag and drop library functions, so for now I'm using the Cortex M7 stuff from Freescale.
Teensy Audio Library, high quality sound processing in Arduino sketches on Teensy 3.1
I worked for Motorola for 41 years so I started with the MC6800 in 1975. I had a SWTPC (Tiger Amps) MC6800 system expanded to the point of consuming nearly a whole workbench. I followed the Motorola path up to the 68HC16, then went rogue.
In 1993 I needed a simple but fast chip to make sync signals for NTSC video. A search led me to a new chip, the PIC16C54. The code was real simple. It had one long loop filled with NO-OPs and bit set or bit clears. Every PIC was overclocked to 24 MHz and every one worked, well over 100000 units sold.
PIC chips have been part of my arsenal ever since. Ever see a dsPIC powered tube amp? I built this in 2007. The complete magazine article is included if anyone is interested. I have some of the current PIC chips in my synth as a few have a built in frequency synthesizer with microHertz resolution. Microchip still makes the best simple 8 bit parts.
Digilent used to make a PIC 32 board called PIC32max or something like that. It had far more I/O than any Arduino, and could be programmed in the Arduino environment. I used them for several one off test fixtures at Motorola. I believe that it could use the Arduino MIDI libraries, but I never actually tried it. They now have a smaller uC32 based on the PIC32 parts, but I have never used one.
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I started buying this years Christmas presents in June. I don't need to buy anything now.
I recently purchased three 100' spools of heat shrink tubing. I got tired of buying 3" pieces.
I also ordered a couple of transformers from Edcor. Due in Feb.
I am still cutting and nailing trim molding I painted a month ago. No need to buy more, I hope.
I recently purchased three 100' spools of heat shrink tubing. I got tired of buying 3" pieces.
I also ordered a couple of transformers from Edcor. Due in Feb.
I am still cutting and nailing trim molding I painted a month ago. No need to buy more, I hope.
The end of capitalism?
As todays capitalism has turned out to be, it has nothing to do about how capitalism was intended to be.
Today we have a "turbo capitalism" and the owners of multinational companies doesnt care a **** about anything but making as much money as possible as soon as possible.
Today everything is about producing all the products in low cost countryes by "lets be honest" slaves and using coal as energy, then transporting the products across the globe by very poluting containerships.
The new capitalism is infact going to kill the planet that we all live on.
So, I realy hope that it's the end of "turbo capitalism"
As todays capitalism has turned out to be, it has nothing to do about how capitalism was intended to be.
Today we have a "turbo capitalism" and the owners of multinational companies doesnt care a **** about anything but making as much money as possible as soon as possible.
Today everything is about producing all the products in low cost countryes by "lets be honest" slaves and using coal as energy, then transporting the products across the globe by very poluting containerships.
The new capitalism is infact going to kill the planet that we all live on.
So, I realy hope that it's the end of "turbo capitalism"
I agree all of the above.
I had that fortune to live in communism.
That was an obviously lying system.
Now, as I can see, capitalism and democratism a big humbug as well.
Perhaps this fact not so obvious, it is a lying system in a more hidden way.
But, I think if we continue this, this topic will be closed soon. 😉
I'm waiting for that strong solar storm.
I had that fortune to live in communism.
That was an obviously lying system.
Now, as I can see, capitalism and democratism a big humbug as well.
Perhaps this fact not so obvious, it is a lying system in a more hidden way.
But, I think if we continue this, this topic will be closed soon. 😉
I'm waiting for that strong solar storm.
I think a lot of people bought everything they can think of earlier in the year when the parts shortages started becoming obvious. I stocked up everything that looked like it would be hard to get soon.
You’re talking about components, the OP is talking about some finished product he’s trying to sell?
This is the reality. And we are crapping the proverbial bed doing it.
I'm appalled at the quality of new products. They literally break down within days of the warranty expiring. The waste of materials, and money, is simply beyond the pale.
I remember some of my parent's stuff that I threw out. It was from the 1950s. At 50 or 60 years old, it still worked like new. I remember our washing machine that lasted 30 years with just a few belt changes. 30 years! My new washing machine started chucking parts on day 366. I'm not exaggerating. Cheapest of the cheap plastic parts crumbling within a year. This unit was without a doubt designed to last as short a time as possible. Did they think I was going to run out and buy another piece of crap? It's a good thing the damn thing was in the basement. It would have flooded the whole house and ruined my beautiful wood floors (REAL wood from REAL trees if you can believe it). And don't get me started on coffee makers - I just keep a new one in the pantry ready to go.
Particularly true in the EU. I certainly bought a huge amount of chinese junk before they started taxing even the smallest parcel. As well as at least a dozen woodworking machines from the UK and protein powder to last me five years 😛
The endgame of free market capitalism is inevitably a modern form of feudalism.
But this time it is not based on ownership of land but on ownership of the money. A few individuals and institutions own nearly all the money and the rest of us have to borrow it from them.
Capitalism has never been any different than it is now, it was just that somebody else got the bad part then.
Made me think of this: Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning - YouTube
and this:Eric Bibb and Habib Koite - We Don't Care - YouTube
Sure but people started buying *everything* up. Maybe they spent all their money lol?
I think it was said firmly tongue in cheek 😉
As of Capitalism, it´s alive, kicking and thriving ... in China.
You want to become an entrepreneur?
Move to China and start offering *anything* and I mean ANYTHING through Ali Baba.
Industrially made products, of course.
Buy something for $1 , resell it for $1.50 : Capitalism 101
This is not Politics but basic Economy.
Hi stinius,
Now we have what was obvious from the start. Lost jobs and opportunity, the inability to repair things from cars to white goods, right down to our stereo and TV. The right to repair is a joke as components will soon no longer be available to repair that equipment anyway.
We all did it to ourselves, and the few that bucked the trend weren't enough.
-Chris
You know, this has been coming since the early 80's. I can't agree with you more on your assessment and it is a case where both our own governments have failed us, and we have failed ourselves. I'll say it again, we voted with our wallets and killed off decent business companies.
Now we have what was obvious from the start. Lost jobs and opportunity, the inability to repair things from cars to white goods, right down to our stereo and TV. The right to repair is a joke as components will soon no longer be available to repair that equipment anyway.
We all did it to ourselves, and the few that bucked the trend weren't enough.
-Chris