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The original quote for a single tile was $50-$100

They came out at $500

Being off by a bit is fine. Being off by 5x to 10x is.. Yikes.

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Prices have gone a little insane in the last year though too to be fair to them.

The Pi alone... just today, someone over at Reddit spotted a Pi 5 being sold for 350$ [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1uso8u1/insanity/

I thought that might just be Amazon resellers capitalizing on marks being too lazy to go off site at first when they were $280 at Microcenter (still crazy expensive). [0] Then Adafruit had them for the same $350! [1] And it really does seem to be driven by the ram too the 4 GB model is only $130 (or $104 at MC).

[0] https://www.microcenter.com/product/702590/raspberry-pi-5?rd...

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/6125?src=raspberrypi

Just like eBay, an Amazon listing for a certain price does not mean the item is actually /selling/ for that price -- especially with badly-coded dynamic re-pricing algorithms hooked into listings these days.

It's not completely out of line with other RPi sources listed on the RPi Foundation's own site. It's the same price as Adafruit for example but about $50 more than Mirco Center (though that is for instore pickup only so only for people lucky enough to live close to one).

The Pi 5 has always been a horrible value, even when you could buy it at MSRP.

It's actually sold on their Crowd Supply for $99 per 4-antenna RF tile, just as the said on their website.

See the 6-pack: https://www.crowdsupply.com/scale-rf/quadrf#products

$500 is a surprisingly good price for a 4x4 mimo SDR.

It looks like it has 4 tiles on it, no?

Yea its mimo 2x2.

Point still stands that they initially said it would be $50-$100. And its going for $500.

I mean if a single tile is 50-100, then 4 is 200-400, so it's not that far?

I think GP misspoke and it's actually four antennas in one tile for this thing.

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