<story><title>Connect to your Raspberry Pi over USB using gadget mode</title><url>https://howchoo.com/pi/raspberry-pi-gadget-mode</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>velcrovan</author><text>Feels like the ubiquity of these kinds of how-tos implies that the Raspberry Pi is an abundant, ready-to-hand device, which hasn&amp;#x27;t been true for a few years now. But maybe we’ll get there again soon? Seems like I’ve read people being optimistic about rpi sourcing but it also hasn’t really materialized yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geerlingguy</author><text>The number of people I know who have been waiting to buy a Pi and actually get one has gone from about 1 a month to about 2 a week in the past couple months.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s slow but steady, seeing more in stock notifications from authorized resellers on rpilocator.com, and the stock  doesn&amp;#x27;t deplete for 30 minutes to an hour now, instead of like 5-10 minutes earlier this year.</text></comment>
<story><title>Connect to your Raspberry Pi over USB using gadget mode</title><url>https://howchoo.com/pi/raspberry-pi-gadget-mode</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>velcrovan</author><text>Feels like the ubiquity of these kinds of how-tos implies that the Raspberry Pi is an abundant, ready-to-hand device, which hasn&amp;#x27;t been true for a few years now. But maybe we’ll get there again soon? Seems like I’ve read people being optimistic about rpi sourcing but it also hasn’t really materialized yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>Would be good if more people called this out. I said something regarding how memory inefficient software is these days and how that makes pi clones difficult to use as a sandbox and someone helpfully responded back about how I should be using some model of RPi for that.&lt;p&gt;First, I already have devices. Second, people are still waiting in like to get Pi’s and based on the last interview I saw the Raspberry people think the system is working.  They don’t want to raise their prices.&lt;p&gt;I am fairly sure if you have more money to offer your suppliers that scarce components are easier to get ahold of. They could keep their margins the same and raise their rates and generate a lot more revenue.</text></comment>