&gt; and if you contributed to the C.H.I.P. campaign, you might be waiting another three months.<p>This portion of the article makes it sound like they have written off C.H.I.P. as a non starter.<p>I actually received my CHIP back in early January, along with most of the campaign contributors. People are using CHIP today and making things with it. For those that ordered around &quot;black friday&quot; on the getchip.com site, those are expected to ship in June (I have a second order in through there), but the early Kickstarter ones have shipped. They also have more shipping each month.