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?

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 ???

Michael Conners wrote:

 

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

 

Mike

The LEDs are bright enough to burn through steel

Michael Conners wrote:

 

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

 

Mike

The LEDs are bright enough to burn through steel

Brian Welsby wrote:

 

The LEDs are bright enough to burn through steel

This has to be the best meme on E14 currently.

 * morgaine bows to selsinork and Brian