Howdy,
I was very excited to see a new video posted today on the Gertboard:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/868
Here’s some video from Gert on the new revision of Gertboard, an expansion board for the Raspberry Pi which brings out the GPIO. There are some lovely demos of Gertboard enabling the Raspberry Pi to work with an analog slider controller and a motor here.
The Rev2 board looks like it is full of fantastic possibilities. I'm very happy to see both an ADC and DAC. Moving the slider to control the motor speed is a nice visual demo. Gert has posted in the blog post comments a link to pic of DAC output on a scope:
Another interesting development is that the PIC microcontroller has now been replaced with an AVR. He refers to it as an Arduino in the video and has tested with an ATMega168 and ATMega328 (http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/educational-applications/gertboard/page-12/#p57407).
Gert closes by saying that a production run of 1,000 is about to commence and the plan is that they'll be ready in 4-5 weeks and sold via the RaspberryPi.org website store. I believe it will be just the bare PCB, but blog comments from Liz mentioned that there might be a kit option, too.
Did anyone else dig the ASCII graphics in the demo? 
Cheers,
Drew
