Friday, May 3, 2024

Meet André Costa: the brains behind @rpilocator #piday #raspberrypi

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Raspberry Pi supply shortages have abated (for now). But, over the past few years, if you were looking for a Pi André Costa was there to help. The maker behind @rpilocator talks with MagPi:

The service we now know as rpilocator started off as cm4locator, with André coding it during a couple of days off. Initially it was private, and within a couple of days it had helped him locate – and buy – a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Surprised at how easy it was, he decided to make a public version.

“I registered the domain on January 26 and spent a couple of hours a day after work adding more listings to be tracked,” André says. “On January 29 I pushed the website to a cloud service. Rpilocator was officially live but no one knew about it. I waited a day to make sure everything was working and I sent an email to Lee from leepspvideo and Jeff Geerling.”

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