Google AIY kit for sale at Microcenter (Store Pickup Only) - Limit 5 per household.
http://www.microcenter.com/product/483414/AIY_Voice_Kit
Do we have a AI focus in DMS?
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I just ordered 5. I should be at the space tomorrow if anyone wants one
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Was just there at lunch. They probably have over 100 of them left.
I wish they had brought back the camera AIY kit for pi day.
I’d like one Mark, but I probably won’t be at DMS until sometime this weekend. Would you put one in my bin? if so PM me your paypal please!
You betcha 
Just looked and they are sold out. If anyone has an extra, I would like to get ahold of one.
@JOwen John, I do. I’m at the space now. Will leave one for you if you have a box?
Mark,
If you have any left, I’d like one. Will be at DMS Thursday (tonight) after around 8pm.
Just sold the last one to @Diplomat. Sorry Mike
No worries. Thanks for thinking of others in buying 5 in the first place…
Ah shucks sorry I’m here but just saw this. Thanks anyways!
Just an FYI, the Richardson Microcenter is no longer showing out of stock with the link from the OP.
Nope. User error.
It may be worth going by anyway. I didn’t realize they were going to keep the $3.14 price after 3/14, or I’d have mentioned this that same night I found out:
So, I ordered a Pi Zero W online for pickup from them on Pi Day; by this time (maybe around 4pm?) the AIY kits were already marked online as sold out. I cursed my luck, and just ordered the W and a few SD cards.
I arrived to pick up my Pi W shortly before close, and of course first I went to the shelves because I wanted to see if I could game the system and pick up two instead of one (it’s not like they didn’t have plenty in stock!)
Bad news: they’d pulled the Zeros and Zero Ws from the shelves, to avoid exactly what I was trying to do. Good news: they had six boxes of Google AIY kits on the floor. Not six kits – six BOXES, with probably around 30 or so kits in each. I picked up my max of five, of course. The sales guy that answered my befuddled “are these what I think they are, and are they the same price as marked online” question practically thanked me for getting five. Said they were drowning in them, and apparently they weren’t selling. (Yes, I told him that was probably because they were marked as out of stock online and they should fix that, but this was at maybe 5 minutes to close, and I imagine he wasn’t super motivated to do/say anything about it.)
I mean, it’s been a day and a half since then. But considering the majority of folks that would have gotten them since then would be those who knew what they were/were for, wanted one, and didn’t check online to see if they were in stock – seems like it’d probably be a pretty small population, I’d think – they may still have some around. Worth a look!
(EDIT: and yes, sadly my spares have already been claimed.)
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Thanks for the tip! Now I have an excuse to make a trip to Microcenter tonight! That place can be really dangerous for me. I always leave with more than I wanted.
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If you have one more free I’d like to borrow it for the committee.