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It's dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker

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Re: It's dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker

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Did you ask anyone? I’ve found they often don’t have stuff out but do have it in the back.

Never tried! Maybe I'll try next time I'm in the neighborhood. Been dying to get my hands on just one pi zero for a project for months now :(

Let me see if I have a spare one.

Re: It's dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker

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post #86

I do appreciate the effort here; however, I suspect this is going to make it even harder to find affordable units due to how fast the scalpers scoop up any readily discoverable inventory. I’ve been struggling to come up with 35 for a class I teach in the March. I would typically have my students buy their own devices, but pivoted when I saw the writing on the wall. Until this tracker was published yesterday, the Pi H…

Someone at work sent this into the devops channel a few mins ago, saying if more than one of our pis break we would get a shortage also. Should we buy more now? Yeah let's worsen the shortage for others that actually need them now, why not... Thankfully the manager agreed wiht me the risk is low enough. It was not us that got them from Pi Hut at least! Feels similar to the toilet paper situation, my wife did not get…

Where are you that you can't get a vaccine by now?

Re: It's dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker

#113
post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone at work sent this into the devops channel a few mins ago, saying if more than one of our pis break we would get a shortage also. Should we buy more now? Yeah let's worsen the shortage for others that actually need them now, why not... Thankfully the manager agreed wiht me the risk is low enough. It was not us that got them from Pi Hut at least! Feels similar to the toilet paper situation, my wife did not get…

Where are you that you can't get a vaccine by now?

For us this toilet paper shortage was only during the time when there were no vaccines, I just mentioned this fact as a reminder of context to readers that it was'nt a good idea to just go to the store every day for daily amounts of paper back then. (Alternative response: where are you that you still got a toilet paper shortage?)

I assume you're the person that took my first karma point based on this misunderstanding?

Note also that around 40% of world population hasn't gotten a single vaccination yet. It's a bit presumptuous to assume these are all personal choice, even if I weren't vaccinated (I am lucky enough to have gotten multiple, even if I wish we could offer everyone the same amount at a similar time -- it stung a little, if you will).

Re: It's dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker

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post #43

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Yeah, same. I have an ag robotics application that I can prototype with stock on hand (glad I prebought a few Pi Zero W now) but I won't be able to scale up my test fleet for the foreseeable future, and that's going to be a problem.

Are you using pi-specific features, or could you pivot onto a beaglebone or odroid or something?

All I really need is WiFi, Linux, relatively low power draw, and low cost, and I can fake the WiFi with an ESP8266 if I have to. Beagleboards seem to have the same supply problem as the Pi, though. Odroid is something I'd never heard of, so I'm going to look into that - thanks!
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