[megous]

Well, I bought them when they were selling at $6+$2 for shipping.

And it's Luckfox Pico Mini. I guess everything computer related got 100% more expensive during the last year.

[nijave]

Between RAM prices and tariffs (if you're in the US), cheap stuff got a lot less cheap in the last year

Also curious what your use case is? They seem highly catered towards video applications versus more generic IoT like esp*