It has been almost impossible to buy R-PI for so long now.
The foundation say they are still manufacturing 400,000 a month - but where are they going?
Certainly not to many retailers.
Is it time to find alternatives, and walk away from R-PI?
It has been almost impossible to buy R-PI for so long now.
The foundation say they are still manufacturing 400,000 a month - but where are they going?
Certainly not to many retailers.
Is it time to find alternatives, and walk away from R-PI?
I've recently come across the Radxa Rock4 (or Rock Pi 4) and the Radxa Rock5 (or Rock Pi 5) SBC's.
They have impressive specs and are very competitively priced.
They are available too. E.g. https://www.okdo.com/c/rock-shop/rock-sbc/
Here is a comparison of their latest compute module against the Raspberry Pi CM4: https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/CM
I've seen a few videos on YouTube recently showcasing the Rock5 board. It looks very promising.
Some might know the saying 
"As bread is to butter... like...". Well, I'm now wondering whether the Rock is to SBC like ESP32 is to MCU...
The only drawback so far is that the Radxa official distro's still use kernel 4.4, but then you can switch to Armbian, which officially supports some of the RockPi boards and uses a version 5 kernel.
