[VicPiMakers General] Buying 1st Raspberry Pi

[George Bowden]

I bought my last pi4 a month ago from Memory Express in Victoria, Blanchard
and Hillside.
I would not buy the kit.  You can use a laptop power supply that outputs on
a USB C, which is quite common for Chromebook laptops.
We have lots of free parts in our donated stock that make up the kit.  You
would want the heatsink.
I would wait for the Pi5 if you can do without a 3.5mm audio output jack.
The Pi5 is more powerful, essentially enough to run as a desktop.  If you
are only reading sensors and reporting to a website, you could get by with
a Pi3 or 4.

On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 1:08 PM Alex Halliday <alexh4264 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am looking at buying my first Raspberry Pi.
> I know the 5 just came out so my first question is buy a 4b or wait until
> sellers have the 5 in stock?
> Second, is there a good place to buy them? I have looked at amazon,
> pishop.ca and cannakit. Is one better than the others? Wondering if any
> go 'on sale'?
> Finally I was looking at 'kits' to get started such as
> : https://www.pishop.ca/product/raspberry-pi-4b-ultimate-kit-64gb-sd-card/
> Is there anything else that is a 'must have' that wouldn't be included in
> a kit such as this?
> Thanks,
> Alex
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