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While pricing out an actual build from Canada I re-checked every line in docs/PARTS.md against its vendor. A few numbers had drifted, so this fixes the pricing and adds a CAD column.

Price corrections (captured 2026-08-22 from vendor sites)

Item Doc said Vendor says
OPS243-A $249 $224 (and currently "Available on backorder")
IWR6843LEVM $150 $156.45 at TI

The Cost Summary did not reconcile with its own tables. Core was listed at $355 while the three core rows summed to $425 at the old prices, and Power & Accessories at $27 against $29. Corrected USD total is ~$609, not ~$556. Every category row now sums to its line items (checked programmatically).

Canadian pricing

Added a ~CAD column to each table, with the Canadian vendor linked inline beside the US one where a domestic distributor stocks the part:

  • PiShop.ca for the Pi 5 ($153.95), 27W PSU ($16.95), microSD ($28.95)
  • DigiKey Canada for the SEN-14262 ($20.76, free shipping over $100 CAD)
  • Elmwood Electronics for the LIS3DH ($7.99) and the STEMMA QT cable ($1.99, versus the ~$10 USD Amazon kit)

CAD total: ~$825 with the angle radar, ~$601 without.

The OPS243-A and IWR6843LEVM have no Canadian distributor and must be imported. Worth flagging: order the LEVM from TI direct, since DigiKey Canada lists the same board at $297.83 CAD against roughly $215 CAD landed from TI. Noted inline.

Notes

  • CAD values are Canadian distributor list prices where one stocks the part, otherwise the USD price converted at the Bank of Canada daily rate of 1.3760 (2026-08-21). Converted figures are marked ~ and exclude shipping, duty, brokerage and tax.
  • The deprecated K-LD7 table is deliberately left USD-only, since those parts should not be bought for new builds.
  • Docs-only change; no code or tests touched.

Re-checked every line in PARTS.md against its vendor while pricing out
a build, and added Canadian pricing alongside the existing USD figures.

Price corrections (captured 2026-08-22 from vendor sites):

* OPS243-A is $224, not $249. It is also currently listed
  "Available on backorder", which is worth knowing before planning a
  build around it.
* IWR6843LEVM is $156.45 at TI, not $150.
* The Cost Summary did not reconcile with its own line items. Core was
  listed at $355 against tabled parts summing to $425 at the old
  prices, and Power & Accessories at $27 against $29. The corrected
  USD total is ~$609, not ~$556. Every category now sums to its rows.

Canadian pricing:

* Adds a ~CAD column to each parts table, with the Canadian vendor
  linked inline beside the US one where a domestic distributor stocks
  the part: PiShop.ca for the Pi 5, PSU and SD card, DigiKey Canada for
  the SEN-14262, and Elmwood Electronics for the LIS3DH and STEMMA QT
  cable.
* The OPS243-A and IWR6843LEVM have no Canadian distributor. Order the
  LEVM from TI direct: DigiKey Canada lists the same board at $297.83
  CAD versus roughly $215 CAD landed from TI. Noted inline.

CAD figures are Canadian distributor list prices where one stocks the
part, otherwise the USD price converted at the Bank of Canada daily
rate of 1.3760 (2026-08-21). Converted values are marked with a tilde
and exclude shipping, duty, brokerage and tax.

The deprecated K-LD7 table is deliberately left USD-only.
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noahjobse force-pushed the docs/parts-cad-pricing branch from 3a40b48 to 7d7438d Compare August 22, 2026 08:46
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