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Been looking for RPI4 CMs for ages now and they've been sold out for as long as I can remember. Same with full size RPI4s and some Odroids. Is this just the new normal or are SBCs and CMs going to show up on the market again at some point?

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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

RPi's and RPi compatibles got co-opted by a huge number of commercial and industrial control systems companies being used for cheap full-fat embedded systems that needed more than a simple microcontroller, but where industrial PLC's were overkill or not sourcable. Everything they produce, which is not a lot given covid supply chain whiplash, has now been going towards those customer's contracts and fuck the little guy consumer they were meant for.

If you want to get into the SBC ecosystem leave rpi in the dust, they're dead to the enthusiasts and won't be coming back. There are much better options. See Linus tech tips video on them.

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gotcha. I figured I'd try the RPI this time around since I had such a terrible time with Odroid's C1 (or C2? It's been 6+ years).

I'm not tied to the RPI at all, but ameridroid seems to be out of stock of everything low cost and low power with a decent amount of RAM (eg 4GB+).

[–] WestwardWinds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you ever checked out OrangePi? I was considering them before picking up a jetson nano. It’s crazy to think that a rpi4b is going for the same price from resellers as a jetson with cuda and tenserflow support.

Over heard of it but haven't seen them. The other piece I was looking for was CMs for the Trying Pi that I got. It's been sitting in a box ever since I got it because .... no compute modules anywhere.

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