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What changed last year that made you sick of it?

Not OP, but price and availability. Before about a year or two ago, it was a cheap-and-cheerful way to put some smarts into any project. Now it's impossible to get at twice the price, and the alternatives aren't quite there yet in terms of software support.

I still like reading about the projects you can do with it though. I find it inspiring for my own side things (even though fewer of them involve the RPi itself -- you can push microcontrollers really far these days!)

To get things clear, I love RPi and use rp2040 for lot of my projects. Use to go with RPi for small projects and now I have lot of ideas and unable to get a RPi for the last 1.5 yrs

Yeah it's been crazy out there. I've been trying to adapt by pushing into the ESP32, which has the WiFi connectivity I need and is cheap and available. But if I had built a business around RPi (as my old employer almost did -- they dodged a bullet there) I'd be in big trouble.

The availability of Raspberry Pi is what made me sick

Fair enough. Sometime last year I just gave up on ever getting one and switched from reading these posts as “here’s an interesting project to try” to “here’s an interesting thing someone did”.

But, yea, it’s not really feasible to do these at home anymore, which is frustrating

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