You're not speaking for circuitco then?
-- Bas
I work for TI.
Gerald
Thanks for the tip … they are only charging a $4.99 premium on the BBB and as of a few minutes ago, claimed they were in stock. So, I ordered one and it is suppose to ship on Monday (2/24). So, we will see. I had a backorder with Sparkfun, but their expected date slipped from 2/19 to 4/5 … so I cancelled the order.
WHAT are you saying ? It’s to the Cap builder to do something !!!
PLUS, if you want something to work in the open source, you have to do it yourself, that the price of open source !
I wanted the RS485 CAP work and I had Zero knowledge in Linux Kernel, It took me 2 month to understand how to make it Happen.
I wanted to fix the issue with the LCD ( Jitter Problem) => I just needed to find out where was the driver source => I fixed it !
Micka,
can we please take this kind of bickering offline? It's really
pretty unseemly.
rday
Ah I see. Somehow I knew this, but you seem to know much about internal circuitco issues.
Sorry for that, but I'm unable to reach anyone at circuitco. I've had a deal with Bob and later
got a commitment from Clint to resolve the matter. But circuitco never delivered and now
seems to think it's easier to ignore the situation. Expensive lesson learned, so much for trusting people.
-- Bas
I believe the current demand is due to the price point. With demand the price needs to go down. The supply issues need to be sorted out.
I just oversee the manufacturing and support of beagleboard.org. Any other issues are theirs.
Gerald
And you are doing one heck of a good job! I sure hope you don’t let the few who keep complaining make you feel like you’re not. So please keep up the good work and brush off the digs that you’re not doing enough and try to enjoy what you’re doing. Some of us appreciate your efforts bringing such an awesome board to us individuals so we can enjoy your efforts and do great things with it.
Doug
I appreciate the feedback ! We are all busting it to get things back up to the new norm! There is a long line of people between us and the parts we need.
Gerald
Gerald
The BBB is an amazing piece of work. It has gotten me excited about embedded systems like never before. Thanks
Interesting. I am not sure Stephen King could stand the competition of another horror writer!
I will think it over!
Gerald
eMMC for one. Schedules are extended out. You have some we can buy? Some of the crystals as well.
Gerald
Replacing with a larger part will increase the cost and void all POs in place. There are no smaller parts than 2GB. Not taking into consideration the fact that SW would not fit in a smaller part.
We have been doing this for six years now and have a pretty good idea how to do this. We are working through it as quickly as we can. It is going to take time. All the tricks are being employed to get boards out…
Gerald
Gerald,
Your prompt and straightforward responses are reassuring, as frustrating as the current situation is.
Beaglebone Black demand could approach that of Raspberry Pi–I understand 40,000 units/week of the latter are being produced in the UK alone. I hope your plan includes the ability to produce 20,000 to 40,000 units/week. Best to do it right once.
Anil
Thank you for your advice.
Gerald
I placed an order for a BBB onFriday with microcenter and they tell me today it is shipped.
$5 premium (~$50)
If anyone needs one check with them. Their website is horrible and it is hard to tell if they have stock. So I was a bit surprised and pleased today when I got the shipped notice.
Can’t wait to play with it.
Eric
We are already working on all of this. Plan is in place.
Gerald
Facts, good or bad, are very helpful in such situations.
Every week or every other week: it will be good to publish backlog and actual avg production rate since last report. When there is visibility into increased production, will be great to mention the increase rate and anticipated date.
Backlog numbers are scheduled out shipments over a year based on POs. That number has no value to determine where current demand is per actual demand. Most distributors do not tell us what their real and current backlog number is.
Gerald