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What is this magical creature called Raspberry Pi? I’ve been trying to order a few for months. But they appear to be OOS or flippers scalpers have bought up available inventory and are charging outrageous markups.

I was almost able to order one through Adafruit but checkout never completed.

I am envious and relieved others are able to get their hands on them to build their projects. I’ve had to redesign a few of mine to use power hungry NUCs.

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I think projects sometimes use the trade name "Raspberry Pi" as a shorter form of SBC with plenty of GPIO. Every week there are multiple semi-clone/specialized/enhanced Banana Pi, Lichee Pi, BigTreeTech, ARM or RISC-V, etc.

https://www.cnx-software.com/news/raspberry-pi/

I wonder if the supply can truly be that limited or am I just lucky enough to keep hearing about it? I haven't ordered a Pi in a while now; but even if they've just become unobtanium there's not yet a community effort to buff the software up for one of the other SBCs?

Armbian seems decent for software and supports multiple SBCs. I'm bot sure what the issue is, but stuff doesn't just work like it does with the Raspberry Pi. I have a Banana Pi M2 Zero since I can't find a Pi Zero 2. It simply won't run the stuff I need it to. The GPIO setup seems to be different or something. I just cannot get a Lepton working with it. Supposedly there is software to work the Lepton with a Teensy, but it seems they want you to buy a kit since I don't see any real instructions on what gpio to use and how to set it up. But I'm probably just dumb.

I have moved to NanoPi. Raspberry Pi is dead to me after years of indifference toward the hobbyist and small business sectors.

I have a Pi 3 B you can buy off me if you're interested.

3x compute modules 4, not used plus 2x carrier boards also not used for sale here. Let’s make small Hacker bazar. Wanted to use them for a project. Then I wasn’t able to buy more and went with FPGA. I hope it’s not against forum rules.

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