Price Increases for 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5

Price Increases for 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5(raspberrypi.com)

14 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | 8 comments

It's amazing how much they've lost the tinkerer audience over the last few years. Unless you really need the GPIO, there are far better and cheaper alternatives for a low power computer.

justin66 1 hour ago |

Why would anyone buy a Pi when they could simply burgle the home of a friend or neighbor and steal their computer?

hn3ufz62f7 1 hour ago |

Swapped a Pi for a used Dell micro in my closet rack and the thing I didn't expect to miss was GPIO, had to add a cheap Pico for the fan and sensors.

iamnothere 50 minutes ago | |

There are now cheap PCIe cards that provide 40-pin GPIO headers, check eBay. You might need an M.2 to PCIe riser if you don’t have a PCIe slot.

rbanffy 1 hour ago | |

If the Dell is old enough, you can use a printer port for some GPIO. Pretty trivial to use.

noahnathan25 1 hour ago |

You could just use an old second-hand phone for under $60. You’d get a built-in battery, much more RAM, and a screen included. For the output, just use a $3 ESP32 connected over Wi-Fi or USB. Seems like a much better deal for a lot of projects.

RugnirViking 1 hour ago |

feels like a lot of money.

I suggest you get a jetson nano instead if youre doing robotics or anything serious with an RPI.

If you just want a cheap computer, you're probably better off with a second hand laptop, probably cheaper too

rbanffy 1 hour ago | |

I've been making clusters from decommissioned thin clients, but they are mostly for the sake of managing clusters, not any useful compute. The workloads are Hercules emulating a VM/370 with or without MVS, and various SimH emulations of vintage computers of various sizes.