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Raspberry Pi Shortages Could Last Another Year
- anxiously 4y agoAnyone find other SBCs as an alternative? Curious if anyone has been using the Khadas line up of SBCs instead...
- grepLeigh 4y agoI'm in the process of porting printnanny.ai to Rock Pi. I wrote an imager app akin to Raspberry Pi Imager to provide the same UX.
- armagon 4y agoI stumbled across a project called DietPi -- https://dietpi.com https://dietpi.com. Scroll halfway down the main page and you'll see many SBCs that it works on and might be good alternatives. Khadas are not on the list, though; I've never heard of them before now.
- pmw 4y agoI am excited for VisionFive 2, "the world’s first high-performance RISC-V single board computer (SBC) with an integrated GPU." https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards But my problem with all these SBCs (including VisionFive) is they max out at 8 GB of RAM. This is a problem for me because I want to run an Ethereum validator, and the software stack needs 16+ GB RAM. Is anyone aware of an SBC supporting 16 GB?
- lesuorac 4y agoA bit confused about your requirements. Aren't those boards like $200? Can't you get a "normal" computer at that range?
- pmw 4y agoA normal computer has features I want to avoid, such as size, heat, fans, large power supplies, etc. A single-board ARM or RISC computer has all the compute power and peripheral connectors I need. The only missing piece is sufficient RAM.
- magios 4y agoKhadas Edge2 Pro has 16GB of RAM, $340 tho, available now, even from amazon. Radxa ROCK 5B also has 16GB of RAM, $220, available via ameridroid. Jetson Orin NX 16GB has 16GB of RAM, $600, available in Dec, would probably also require a carrier board of unspecified price.
- pmw 4y agoThanks, this is great! I didn’t know about any of these.
- selfhoster11 4y agoThe closest alternative is ultra small form factor PCs, which is quite sad for a number of reasons.
- cptcobalt 4y agoWhy is this the case? Personally, I feel like getting a RPi has been harder than getting a 3090, PS5, or Xbox Series X—it's a fundamentally cheaper, underpowered product, that should theoretically be able to produced in serious droves. I get the current economic and supply chain uncertainty, but I figure the shortages that have been going on for this long don't merely chalk up to that. Is there more to it?
- lesuorac 4y agoIIUC, it's basically their demand skyrocketed (not that their supply went down) and still is. They just can't produce enough of them [1] despite efforts to do so. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/you-cant-buy-raspberry-pi-right-now https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/you-cant-buy-raspberr...
- iudqnolq 4y agoThey've also prioritized supplying companies that committed to building systems based on their boards over hobbyists. I think there's a solid argument that's healthier for the ecosystem long term.
- sschueller 4y agoIn case you want to try your luck snipping one. I made a telegram bot that will notify you as soon as one is available using the rpilocator website. https://github.com/sschueller/rpilocatorbot https://github.com/sschueller/rpilocatorbot
- justaj 4y agoThat's pretty rad, but could you please make one for Matrix users as well?
- scionthefly 4y agoMy concern is that a large portion of the population who has traditionally used RPi for projects will have pivoted away to another platform by the time they are available again. I'd like one so I can use it for Mathematica. Running it on my RPi B (the original) is pretty underwhelming these days.
- rasz 4y agoEben has no say in it. Broadcom/Avago decided not to order chips, so no chips are being manufactured. Eben can decide directly about RP2040, and unsurprisingly those are being manufactured and available.