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Are there any affordable development platforms for those cameras right now? Paying 100 € for a second hand Raspberry Pi and another 25 € for the Camera seems like a bad idea when I could get a USB GPIO adapter and a smartphone with a better camera and touchscreen for less.

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Raspberry Pis (at least Pi 4 model B) can be found new at list price in a few places, but you have to be patient.

Of the 8 or so Pis I currently test on, the average time from when I placed the order to when I got the Pi was about 3 months (the CM4s I bought took about 8 months).

But I did get them all at list price, plus a small shipping fee.

Do you have any specific links of suppliers you recommend checking? All of my common ones, including my local MicroCenter, are almost perpetually out...

PiHut, Micro Center, and Pishop.us are the three I most often go to.

Micro Center always had some model in stock until last September, now they only seem to have Pi 400s available.

Thanks - I've been keeping track of Pishop and Micro Center (always forget the space...), forgot about PiHut as I usually don't need to check stores for other countries (though they've got Pi Zero 2 boards in stock, so may be placing an order...).

I bought mine from Vilros. Got it in a couple of days. No drama or delays. I didn't even realize people were waiting so long to get them.

What does a usb gpio adapter do with a smartphone?

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