BBB out of stock ?

Hey Guys--

As you know, we're currently out of stock on the BeagleBone Black. I've heard we're getting some more in over the next couple of weeks. You might want to sign up on our transactional sites to be notified when we get more in:

Americas:

http://www.newark.com/circuitco/bb-bblk-000/dev-board-am3358-59-arm-mpu-beaglebone/dp/65W6016

UK:

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=2291620

(You can find our complete list of countries if you go to Farnell.com.)

Interesting fact:

The wiki http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Board_Shipments shows 124100 boards shipped to date.

A mail from Gerald to the beagleboard mailing list today Gmane -- Re: Re: Availability how come nobody has any BeagleBone Black to sell? says there's a backlog of 140K

With a 26 week lead time on some parts, it seems that the BBB is going to have a 2014 somewhat similar to the RPi's 2012 with nobody having stock for long.

Hi Selsinork,

Thanks for the information. I couldn't find any in-stock from the usual UK sources so I think you're right, stock is shipping to recipients as soon as any arrives in any warehouse!

Yep, seems that way.  It also suggests that, for reasons as yet unknown, the BBB is hugely more successful than anyone realised.

Have you seen this post BeagleBoard.org - Forums if its true then one company alone is taking around 1000 per week.

Missed that one, thanks for the link.  Still, that can't be all there is to it. The wiki page suggests they're building approx 8000 per month so that 1000 per week is only half the supply. Getting from there to a 140K backlog in a few months doesn't seem to add up unless the distributors are being very foolish.

Anyway, for a company, that's a very inept approach.  If it was me, I'd have arranged to build my own boards to assure supply and would have approached Gerald directly for support through 'other avenues' as offered in the terms of use section of the wiki http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Terms_of_Use I certainly wouldn't have come onto a public forum complaining about failure rates for a board that was never designed for whatever they're using it for.

Even more interesting is when you look at the email address of the original post, then go to http://acdusa.com/ I have some difficulty believing a company like that would put itself in this sort of a position, but if they have I'd want to steer clear of them or anything they touch.  Even better is that they appear to be a 5min walk down the road from CircuitCo !