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Tangential at best: where can you get a hold on a Raspberry Pi 4 in Europe? Every store is sold-out and the ones that aren't only allow one per customer.

horsellama 5y ago
Pimoroni has some in stock https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-4?variant=29157087445075 https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-4?variant=29...
- capableweb 5y ago
  > This product is limited to 1 per customer
  - geerlingguy 5y ago
    Most people just need one, fortunately.
    - capableweb 5y ago
      Sure, that's probably true. Wasn't what I asked for in my original comment though :)
  - horsellama 5y ago
    Oops, sorry didn’t notice that they are doing this now. I’ve bought some at few weeks of distance tho (a zeroW and a 3B)
butz 5y ago
Are there any other, more available cheap boards, that could run a simple web server?
- rolph 5y ago
  ive reflashed old routers with openWRT into a server cluster, they are a lot more portable, quiet and power efficient, of course this doesnt scale up well as the hardware has its limits. keep in mind you dont have to host the entire website on one server, so you can balance the load that way if you need to.
- oynqr 5y ago
  Check out some of the supported boards for armbian, nanopis are usually pretty cheap and decent enough.
kzrdude 5y ago
Why are pis so often limited like this, is it a requirement from the foundation? Just curious.
- deadbunny 5y ago
  Demand outstrips production. Especially with a chip shortage and lots of people stuck inside lookin for projects.
  - kzrdude 5y ago
    So why does the retailer benefit from limiting like this? To sell more starter kits etc?
megous 5y ago
https://rpishop.cz/869-mini-pocitace https://rpishop.cz/869-mini-pocitace
- capableweb 5y ago
  > Maximálně 1 ks na zákazníka. Which I assume means something like "This product is limited to 1 per customer"
pzduniak 5y ago
https://botland.com.pl https://botland.com.pl will sell you up to 10.
- capableweb 5y ago
  Thanks, looks like a nice choice! Unfortunately they only have 2 (4GB model, rest is out of stock) in stock at the moment ("Available quantity: 2" it says), but will keep an eye for when they get re-stocked.
emilfihlman 5y ago
https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/57364/mndkd/Raspberry-Pi-4-model-B-4-Gt-yhden-piirilevyn-tietokone https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/57364/mndkd/Raspberr... You might want to also grab the sd card from there. I recommend getting the power supply, case and fan from Digikey.
yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
It's a bit more work, but for single-digit quantities you could just buy one per store from a bunch of vendors, possibly repeating weekly or whatever until you get the desired number?

horsellama 5y ago

Pimoroni has some in stock https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-4?variant=29157087445075 https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-4?variant=29...

capableweb 5y ago
> This product is limited to 1 per customer
- geerlingguy 5y ago
  Most people just need one, fortunately.
  - capableweb 5y ago
    Sure, that's probably true. Wasn't what I asked for in my original comment though :)
- horsellama 5y ago
  Oops, sorry didn’t notice that they are doing this now. I’ve bought some at few weeks of distance tho (a zeroW and a 3B)

butz 5y ago

Are there any other, more available cheap boards, that could run a simple web server?

rolph 5y ago
ive reflashed old routers with openWRT into a server cluster, they are a lot more portable, quiet and power efficient, of course this doesnt scale up well as the hardware has its limits. keep in mind you dont have to host the entire website on one server, so you can balance the load that way if you need to.
oynqr 5y ago
Check out some of the supported boards for armbian, nanopis are usually pretty cheap and decent enough.

kzrdude 5y ago

Why are pis so often limited like this, is it a requirement from the foundation? Just curious.

deadbunny 5y ago
Demand outstrips production. Especially with a chip shortage and lots of people stuck inside lookin for projects.
- kzrdude 5y ago
  So why does the retailer benefit from limiting like this? To sell more starter kits etc?

megous 5y ago

https://rpishop.cz/869-mini-pocitace https://rpishop.cz/869-mini-pocitace

capableweb 5y ago
> Maximálně 1 ks na zákazníka. Which I assume means something like "This product is limited to 1 per customer"

pzduniak 5y ago

https://botland.com.pl https://botland.com.pl will sell you up to 10.

capableweb 5y ago
Thanks, looks like a nice choice! Unfortunately they only have 2 (4GB model, rest is out of stock) in stock at the moment ("Available quantity: 2" it says), but will keep an eye for when they get re-stocked.

emilfihlman 5y ago

https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/57364/mndkd/Raspberry-Pi-4-model-B-4-Gt-yhden-piirilevyn-tietokone https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/57364/mndkd/Raspberr... You might want to also grab the sd card from there. I recommend getting the power supply, case and fan from Digikey.

yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago

It's a bit more work, but for single-digit quantities you could just buy one per store from a bunch of vendors, possibly repeating weekly or whatever until you get the desired number?