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Comment by theshrike79 | Hacker News Reader

Brave of them to release new hardware, when even their old stuff has ridiculous lead times.

I've been trying to find the Coral USB Accelerator[0] for a Frigate installation for a few years now. Mouser Europe has a lead time of ... 81 weeks! Other distributors just say "nope".

[0] https://coral.ai/products/accelerator

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Agreed, their existing products are impossible to source. I've been trying to find a USB Accelerator, Mini PCIe Accelerator, or M.2 Accelerator for quite a while. I don't even care which, just any one of them! Deciding to release a "Dev Board Micro" when they already have a "Dev Board" and "Dev Board Mini" and all their other "Accelerator" products are unavailable seems a bit silly.

Crazy, they were handing these things out as conference freebies a while back and now they're $400 on eBay. Pretty sure I still have one in a box somewhere.

There's a decent number of people looking to buy the USB accelerator for use with Frigate but lead times are going way into 2023.

I've been trying to get one for ~1yr but it's not happening any time soon.

It's not a complaint, but I'm surprised they're releasing new hardware soon when people can't even get the hardware they have now.

I can sell you mine if you want .

The going rate for USB Accelerators is 300€++ on eBay. MSRP is $59.

I don't need it _that_ much. =)

Wait really I’ll sell it on eBay .

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