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NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: ejeffrey on July 16, 2023, 01:45:39 am ---It's not just parts cost.  A lot of industrial applications will have a "no wifi" requirement.

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Have a zero ohm resistor on the board to enable the Wifi, if it is not desired, break it off and it will be disabled at the hardware level.
gnuarm:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 16, 2023, 02:18:58 am ---
--- Quote from: ejeffrey on July 16, 2023, 01:45:39 am ---It's not just parts cost.  A lot of industrial applications will have a "no wifi" requirement.

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Have a zero ohm resistor on the board to enable the Wifi, if it is not desired, break it off and it will be disabled at the hardware level.

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Yeah, everyone wants to use pliers to effect user selected options.
Karel:
I believe it when they are plenty available here for "reasonable" prices:

https://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/rpi4-modbp-4gb/raspberry-pi-4-model-b-4gb/dp/3051887

nigelwright7557:

--- Quote from: Infraviolet on July 15, 2023, 05:06:26 pm ---A lot of the prices look tripled since before the chip crisis, but good to see they are coming back in to stock now.

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I have found myself PIC hopping to keep making things during the shortage.
Its a real pain to have half a dozen different versions of a program to work with different PIC's.
If I make a change I have to do it to all 6 projects !

mendip_discovery:
It is a shame that something created to help the younger generation learn about coding etc has been taken over by businesses that use them for their systems so when there were limits on parts the priority went to the business users. It is going to take some time before the prices drop as there are a whole bunch of amateurs that have projects waiting for these things and that is creating a significant demand.

Regards to models with this and without that. If you make a million products and you can save £1 in parts then that is a saving. I also suspect that a fair bit of the special limited ones are targeted at business use as they will notice the savings but also they may have security reasons for not wanting one with WiFi even if it is disabled.

I am just going to wait for now as my projects are not likely to get much attention until winter.
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