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Thought I would put this out there....Ever since I put my PiHatU kit together, the Red and Yellow led's would not work.? Steve (N8AR) was kind enough to have a Zoom session, and we discovered that the led's themselves were damaged...one was almost completely missing.? I shipped the entire assembled kit to Steve and he immediately took a look.? He had to remove the remnants of the damaged led's (no idea how it happened, but there was no apparent damage to the rest of the PiHat board....weird !), and replace them.? He quickly sent everything back to me, and it's been in service now for about a week with no problems.

Have to say I'm thrilled about the level of support provided here....way over and above what most other kit suppliers would typically provide....

Here's wishing everyone a great holiday, and I'm going to spend some quality time with my middle grandson giving this unit a thorough workout for some linked nets.

Gary / WB8ZGV

Gary,

I agree, that's why I've bought over 6 kits from Steve. I'm sure he'd be selling more if there wasn't parts shortages. and Raspberry? PI's classified as UNOBTAINIUM.

Last heard from Steve is that he has SA818's on Back ordered...One bright spot ---especially for us poor hams and this is only supposition on my part is that the Raspberry PI (RPI) foundation founder in a blog about last August stated that they were producing 1/2 million RPI's per month in their Wales factory, but he has given priority to his big commercial sellers over individuals..because they have "families that need to be fed"... Well I took offense to that as the original intent of the RPI Foundation was to supply low cost computing to young people, 3rd world countries, students and experimenters.?

Anyhow many RPI's were placed into BITCOIN MINING and clusters of RPI's with as many as 1000 RPI's are being sold to investors to mine bitcoins. and the rich get richer, as they say.. Well, everyone knows the big BITCOIN dealer has been charged with a PONZI scheme and I'm sure that BITCOIN mining cluster sames have dropped to ZERO or close to it. That means that those big orders RPI foundation has been taking are ending and the Foundation is going to revert back to selling them to students and experimenters. Some have all ready come available and immediately sold out. Something that has not been seen since before summer.

I did notice that mouser.com is posting an availability date for various RPI's in January and February.. I am not sure, but I think you can pre-order..

Newark.com (the USA importer) has them back-ordered with a lead time of August 2024...

Merry Christmas to all,

Larry W8LM...


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Larry,

I've never seen anyone use a Pi for Bitcoin. It's way too underpowered.? I'm frustrated by the supply shortages too, but that's not the issue.??

Your point about being for youth/students/schools is valid.? Which would make it not meant for us as well right?

Let's just stay positive and focus on what we control.??

Mike