TGIF - share your weekend plans for the BeagleBone Black!

My weekend plans are to hunt down the postman and to pry my BBB out of his hands    I'll work on the rest if that's successful.

it looks like from your recent posts you were successful in that first task?

Drew Fustini wrote:

 

it looks like from your recent posts you were successful in that first task?

Yep, the postman nearly jumped out of his skin when I opened the door just as he was about to knock and snatched it off him

Thinking I may just order another one or two now before everyone else does !

RS Components quote delivery 17 May so I have one on order from them as well now.

Interested in how you get on with Debian, hope the day job isn't too distracting, I was made redundant in 2009 so took early retirement, no job to get in my way, just the wife and family

Just checked Farnell UK and they now say: 16267 will be available for delivery on 17 May, 2013

I may soon have 2 to play with

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Brian Welsby wrote:

 

Just checked Farnell UK and they now say: 16267 will be available for delivery on 17 May, 2013

Farnell UK now says:

1000 will be available for delivery on 20 May, 2013

1000 will be available for delivery on 27 May, 2013

2000 will be available for delivery on 3 Jun, 2013

That's really not adequate, not by an order of magnitude, maybe two.  I would guess that the stock from each delivery will vanish within an hour every week.  This is the good old (aka. "ridiculous") Rpi situation all over again, and I wonder if CircuitCo is ready to handle the worldwide demand.

"Price is king", and as price drops, demand becomes exponential.  Just like in the parable of the grains of rice and the chessboard, humans aren't very good at understanding and planning for exponentials.

Ah, that's lower than the Newark element14 stocking level:

http://www.newark.com/circuitco/bb-bone-000/am3359-beaglebone-jtag-via-usb/dp/71T6942

 

 

12435 Expected to ship 16 May, 2013

1500 Expected to ship 17 May, 2013

24500 Expected to ship 20 May, 2013

Further stock expected to ship 13 Jul, 2013

 

BeagleBone BlackBeagleBone Black has been in stock consistently with Newark element14 since Monday morning (the "20 in stock" is not the real number.  I'm pretty certain its much more than that but I don't know the actual amount. Sometimes stock gets listed like for hot items like Pi, etc).  If you didn't mind the single order direct ship US->UK fee, then you could get they BBB and also be able to pick from our expanding offering of Adafruit goodies.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

Farnell UK now says:

1000 will be available for delivery on 20 May, 2013

1000 will be available for delivery on 27 May, 2013

2000 will be available for delivery on 3 Jun, 2013

 

That's really not adequate, not by an order of magnitude, maybe two. 

How about:

• 10685 will be available for delivery on 22 May, 2013
• 1000 will be available for delivery on 27 May, 2013
• 5000 will be available for delivery on 2 Jun, 2013
• 1500 will be available for delivery on 3 Jun, 2013

the other day it was showing 700-ish available on the 20th, then that vanished completely overnight...

The order I just placed showed delivery on the 22nd on the confirmation page, but the email says date TBC, so I suspect you can't really take these numbers seriously just yet.

Newark shows:

• 12631 Expected to ship 16 May, 2013
• 24500 Expected to ship 20 May, 2013
• 1000 Expected to ship 30 May, 2013

Even assuming you need a healthy dose of skepticism the numbers are still quite impressive.

I have found the Farnell UK numbers to change both up and down by just refreshing the page. As I placed my order on 30 April there was a large number for delivery in May then the confirmation page showed 3 June but my email then said TBC and the large number for May had disappeared.  I have now had an email notification:

Further to notification from our supplier we write to advise that the expected delivery of items listed in bold has been amended.

2291620 BEAGLEBONE BLACK, CORTEX A8, D 1 1 W/C 13/05/2013

It is still only estimated delivery so not holding my breath, I still have one on order from RS with delivery 17/05/2013.

You can also see that other sellers are also quoting large number on back order so yes quite impressive and it's not been mentioned on the BBC yet

I have found the Farnell UK numbers to change both up and down by just refreshing the page. As I placed my order on 30 April there was a large number for delivery in May then the confirmation page showed 3 June but my email then said TBC and the large number for May had disappeared.  I have now had an email notification:

Further to notification from our supplier we write to advise that the expected delivery of items listed in bold has been amended.

2291620 BEAGLEBONE BLACK, CORTEX A8, D 1 1 W/C 13/05/2013

It is still only estimated delivery so not holding my breath, I still have one on order from RS with delivery 17/05/2013.

You can also see that other sellers are also quoting large number on back order so yes quite impressive and it's not been mentioned on the BBC yet

Brian Welsby wrote:

 

Further to notification from our supplier we write to advise that the expected delivery of items listed in bold has been amended.

 

2291620 BEAGLEBONE BLACK, CORTEX A8, D 1 1 W/C 13/05/2013

Got one of these this morning too. My order went in on the 12th. Makes me wonder if either the backorder queue isn't as big as we assumed or they're getting a reasonable shipment in. The availability dates random number generator has changed again today, so I suppose we just have to wait for the postman to knock

What this tells me is that they are not processing back orders in order. You ordered on the 12th and received on the 14th. I ordered on the 30 April and I have just (timed at 12:18) received notification that it has been shipped today the 14th.

That's just not fair so I am going to sulk and throw my toys out of the pram till I finally get it.

On the other hand I did have to wait a lot longer for my first RPi.

Sorry Brian, I should have been clearer. All I got today was the email with the updated date estimate.

No clue when it'll actually ship.

I was incredibly lucky to get my first RPi out of the very first batch in mid April last year, my long wait was for the second one.

Apologies are all mine after re-reading your post I can see I got the wrong end of the stick.

I have stopped sulking and picked up all my toys. 

I will be spending the morning watching out for the postman tomorrow though

Postman delivered a nice little package today, well he just dropped it in the porch and ran

I am very impressed with the way it just worked out of the box, connected via the supplied USB cable to a windows 7 machine and there it was, followed the little guide that came with it. I then tried the same with an old machine I have running Mint Linux and again there it was  no problems. I understand now the comments about the blue LEDs, however, a good first user experience but now it's time to play.

Brian Welsby wrote:

 

I understand now the comments about the blue LEDs

would you like to borrow my hammer ?  I find it therapeutic to smash them to bits !  be sure take them off the board first though!

Or buy a box of Altoids and close it up in there

Mike

I suppose that works too, but which is more enjoyable ?

Brian Welsby wrote:

 

What this tells me is that they are not processing back orders in order. You ordered on the 12th and received on the 14th. I ordered on the 30 April and I have just (timed at 12:18) received notification that it has been shipped today the 14th.

 

That's just not fair so I am going to sulk and throw my toys out of the pram till I finally get it.

 

On the other hand I did have to wait a lot longer for my first RPi.

You think that's unfair. I ordered my BBB on the 24th April and still haven't had any indication when I'll get one. So you're right, it makes no difference when you placed your order, they're not being fullfilled in order.

Brian Welsby wrote:

 

I understand now the comments about the blue LEDs

http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=BeagleBoneBlack

Revision A5B (Pending Production Version)

1) Updated the PCB to incorporate the modification that was being done on Rev A5A. There is NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL in functionality between Rev A5A and REV A5B.
2) Made the LEDs dimmer for those that could not sleep due to the brightness of the LEDs.

So, Mr Farnell, how do I order an A5B version and ensure you don't ship me an A5A ???