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Are there any affordable development platforms for those cameras right now? Paying 100 € for a second hand Raspberry Pi and another 25 € for the Camera seems li
by johndough 5y ago
Are there any affordable development platforms for those cameras right now? Paying 100 € for a second hand Raspberry Pi and another 25 € for the Camera seems like a bad idea when I could get a USB GPIO adapter and a smartphone with a better camera and touchscreen for less.
- geerlingguy 5y agoRaspberry Pis (at least Pi 4 model B) can be found new at list price in a few places, but you have to be patient. Of the 8 or so Pis I currently test on, the average time from when I placed the order to when I got the Pi was about 3 months (the CM4s I bought took about 8 months). But I did get them all at list price, plus a small shipping fee.
- maicro 5y agoDo you have any specific links of suppliers you recommend checking? All of my common ones, including my local MicroCenter, are almost perpetually out...
- geerlingguy 5y agoPiHut, Micro Center, and Pishop.us are the three I most often go to. Micro Center always had some model in stock until last September, now they only seem to have Pi 400s available.
- maicro 5y agoThanks - I've been keeping track of Pishop and Micro Center (always forget the space...), forgot about PiHut as I usually don't need to check stores for other countries (though they've got Pi Zero 2 boards in stock, so may be placing an order...).
- olyjohn 5y agoI bought mine from Vilros. Got it in a couple of days. No drama or delays. I didn't even realize people were waiting so long to get them.
- boromi 5y agoWhat does a usb gpio adapter do with a smartphone?