Gertboard availability?

Hi David,

We have updated our Gerboard FAQ recently. Unfortunately, Gertboard is no longer available, please see full message on: http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-48974/l/gertboard-faq

Thanks,

Farnell element14 Raspberry Pi Customer Support

Customer Support wrote:

 

Hi David,

 

We have updated our Gerboard FAQ recently. Unfortunately, Gertboard is no longer available, please see full message on: http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-48974/l/gertboard-faq

 

 

Thanks,

Farnell element14 Raspberry Pi Customer Support

So, what your saying is youve shafted this Gert bloke, right? Got him to sigh his rights away, then stopped selling his board?

Bill

I see that quite a few people that are receiving a Raspberry Pi instead of a GertBoard are in Canada.

I got an updated Raspberry Pi instead of a GertBoard.

I am in Oregon, United States.

Stuart Cullen wrote:

 

Starnge things are a happening.

Halloween is definitely a strange time.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

Stuart Cullen wrote:

 

Starnge things are a happening.

 

Halloween is definitely a strange time.

Yup. I have seen several Pumpkin Pi's in last few days. Also some spooky solder.

Ray

Ray Hughes wrote:

 

Yup. I have seen several Pumpkin Pi's in last few days. Also some spooky solder.

Haha.  Well speaking of spooky solder, have you ever examined solder joints under a microscope, with a magnification of at least 20X?  It makes you marvel at the fact that soldered electronics work at all, it's so dirty, messy and irregular, and I'm referring even to the best quality professionally made boards.

Being quite well versed in the foundations of nanotechnology (there is no practice, yet), the state of solder joints really brings home to me in what barbaric times we still live in electronics, ie. our poor control over bulk materials.  It's digital, sure, but only by the skin of its teeth.  Solder joints look more like the product of drunken spiders than a precisely engineered product.

Cool.

My Gertboard arrived today.

I also received a letter telling me to keep the Pi they sent.

I'm very happy to get the Gertboard, so the Pi is icing on the cake.

Thanks element14! and thanks to everyone in Customer Service.

My Gertboard also arrived via Purolator Courier here in Ottawa, Canada yesterday.  I wasn't home to receive it, but did pick it up at lunchtime today.

Also got the letter about being able to keep the Pi they sent in error.  Thanks Newark/Element 14 for coming through with great customer service.

Time to fire up the soldering iron.

Greg Goodwin wrote:

 

Time to fire up the soldering iron.

I like to use the film noir word "heater" to refer a soldering iron, as in "Why d’ya let these cheap gunsels hang around the lobby with their heaters bulging in their pockets?” from The Maltese Falcon.

Recieved my Gert board and letter telling me to keep the pi,  thank you Newark for pi and for my gert board, can't wait to start putting it all together....

Arlie

Arlie,

Glad to hear it, thank you for your business! Let us know how everything turns out

Dave,

I am in the same boat as the others who received a Pi instead of a Gertboard, but I have not received a replacement nor do I have any idea if I will. Customer service seems to be more in the dark than I am. Would you look into it?

Thanks,

Geordie

Dave,

I am in the same boat as the others who received a Pi instead of a Gertboard, but I have not received a replacement nor do I have any idea if I will. Customer service seems to be more in the dark than I am. Would you look into it?

Thanks,

Geordie