


I was able to get it here in Canada from Diigiit Robotics but I see that they're now out of stock and like the Pi 3, prices have become elevated. The list price should only be about US$35 for one of these but due to worldwide shortage, there's a bit of a markup currently (very common supply-demand issue of course).īut looking around, another little computer caught my attention - the US$40 ODROID-C2 from Hardkernel, a South Korean company. Plenty of support, reasonably fast quad-core Broadcom BCM2837 64-bit ARMv8 1.2GHz, decent but not impressive 1GB RAM, OK 10/100Mbps ethernet, and convenient wireless 802.11n WiFi with Bluetooth 4.1. The recently released Raspberry Pi 3 looks excellent. They announced 5 million units sold back in early 2015. Without a doubt, the Raspberry Pi computers are the current reigning champions in popularity. Here's a pretty good list of recent SBCs on the market to get a feel of what's out there in early 2016.

Certainly I've been looking around and while I was relaxing in Puerto Vallarta a few weeks back, I decided to leisurely check online the varieties of these low-cost single-board computers (SBCs). Over the last year, every once awhile someone will come and ask me when I was going to try out a Raspberry Pi as a streaming replacement for my Squeezebox systems.
