Alternatives to Raspberry pi Zero for Reef-pi

rajdude · Aug 1, 2022

I was in the same boat at the OP.

I found a couple of ways to get a pi at MSRP.

Watch this website (there are others as well):

Find Raspberry Pi computers in stock - rpilocator

rpilocator.com

They have a Twitter feed also, which is easier to look into and gives some very good tips and alerts.

Go to a local Micro Center store. They usually have some models of Pi in stock.

I scored a 3B last week at Adafruit for $35.

InactiveAcct · Aug 1, 2022

rajdude said:
I was in the same boat at the OP.

I found a couple of ways to get a pi at MSRP.

Watch this website (there are others as well):

Find Raspberry Pi computers in stock - rpilocator

Find Raspberry Pi computers in stock - rpilocator

rpilocator.com

They have a Twitter feed also, which is easier to look into and gives some very good tips and alerts.

Go to a local Micro Center store. They usually have some models of Pi in stock.

I scored a 3B last week at Adafruit for $35.

All pis out of stock from all vendors. Go figure.

Malcontent · Aug 1, 2022

DanTheReefer said:
All pis out of stock from all vendors. Go figure.

Adafruit sells the Pi 4 2 GB every week. They enforce a strict one Pi per customer until the shortage is over policy. Setup an account and 2FA (they require it as an anti-bot measure) and wait for the Twitter alert.

Malcontent · Aug 3, 2022

And, like clockwork, back in stock at Adafruit:

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 2 GB RAM

The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is the newest Raspberry Pi computer made, and the Pi Foundation knows you can always make a good thing better! And what could make the Pi 4 better than the 3? How ...

www.adafruit.com

Usually every Weds or Thurs.

Wolfw28 · Aug 21, 2022

I have had no problem with getting pi 4 from Amazon pi4 2gig 125.0. I just bought a Le Potato from libre computers board AML-S905X-CC Libre Computer Board AML-S905X-CC (Le Potato) 2GB 64-bit Mini Computer for 4K Media https://a.co/d/7wuLzy2 for 40.00 and installed Armbain on it to run Octoprint server for my 3D printer. It supposedly supports Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Raspbian 11 64/32-bit the GPIO pin layout may be a little different and it doesn’t have built in Wi-Fi but for my applications that ok had an extra wi-fi dongle laying around. Also may want to check orange-pi.