[Hot Tabasco]

Car aficionados can literally rebuild their classic 60 year old muscle cars from the chassis up with plenty of parts to be found.

That will never be the case with today's cars 40 years from now since all electronics and chips will be obsolete and unavailable by then and their only worth will be for scrap.

[Hot Tabasco]

They can’t even get the chips to complete the build on today’s new vehicles.......

[citizen]

Just like flat screens, today’s EV autos will be ‘disposable.’ Either they can’t be reasonably repaired or fixing them, to include the storage battery, will be too expensive.

[Myrddin]

The component supply chains are already strained. I'm trying to prototype some relatively simple Doppler DF gear and having to place orders and wait 8 to 10 days for relatively common stuff like resistors, pots, caps. The specialized PIN diodes that sold for $3 each 20 years ago are sold from surplus remainder suppliers at $12 each. When the stock is gone...pure unobtanium. Radio Shack no longer stocks the breadth of small parts that was common 20 years ago. Project boxes are all plastic. I'll have to order an aluminum one via Amazon and wait again. I won't order the box until I have the PC board built and know the dimensions of the board that needs to be packaged.

I'm building another weather station project based on plug-together I2C sensors. One of them ordered in August 2021 is still backordered. I have a Tupperware bowl filled with most of the parts to build the station. The software is done. Build the hardware, burn the firmware to the micro-controller and off we go.