Assembled Gertboards available
Farnell have just announced that they have stock of assembled Gertboards. We’ve seen them on element14 and on Farnell: at the time of writing, 1600 of them were available for £30. For more about Gertboard, see our previous posts. Then head on over and order one!
21 comments
mahjongg
they seemed to already go at a rate of one every few minutes, even before this announcement!
Gert
Yes, everybody who had registered for a board got an email that they where available.
The first of those emails started going out last Friday.
Matt Hawkins
Mine has just shipped!
naypalm
Glad to see it back for sale on element14! My order is in :)
mahjongg
Back? This is the official release of the assembled Gertboard, not the kit!
AFAIK the assembled version has not been on the market (except maybe some samples).
This version has also probably been redesigned to make automatic production of it easier.
johnpowel
just put order in and got E-mail back saying shipped
Bashster
What great value! 1600 boards for only 30 quid! What a pity I only need the one. ;)
Pete
Small batch number i had to grab one as you. £36 delivered in the UK. See there are more items coming too
Anand
52 pounds in Dubai. More than 2 of my Raspberry Pi’s combined.
Unfortunately have to pass on this :(
Gert van Loo
Try this link:
http://export.farnell.com/rp/order/
Peter
£43.65 / 51 eur for me in germany
Anand
Yup. Used that. The distributor there quoted the aforementioned price.
And I was waiting for the assembled version!
walker_stick
element14 in Australia had about 100 boards today. Not yet up on the web-site, but OK on phone order. 24h delivery.
zulucat
Newark has them in stock here in the US. I ordered one yesterday & it has already shipped.
fos
UPS tracking shows mine delivered. No notice. I guess it was left at the apartment office. Maybe I’ll get tomorrow. I still think my hand built version will have more class. :)
James Cochrane
just got mine in the mail :)
JP
Bit cheeky to supply the board but not the GPIO cable !
JamesH
The boards plug directly in to the Raspi, no cable needed.
David Bock
Huh. The labeled pins for the gpio seem to assume you’re using a revision1 board. I’m using a revision2, and gp21 seems non-existent. A few software changes and I was good to go with my software, but this is a little disappointing. There must be more revision 2 boards out there than revision1s by now, and this just throws another wrinkle into newbies trying to figure stuff out.
jim
Does it come with a micro-controller or is that extra?
Jonathan Scott
I have just destroyed my R-Pi by inadvertently connecting an AC supply to the motor controller – I was trying to run a scalextric car (12V DC motor) but did Not realise that the power supply was 16V AC and that the track contained a rectifier! The ARM chip now gets red hot when the power is connected.
I have ordered a replacement R-Pi but don’t know if I have also ruined the motor controller on the Gert board. Is there any way of testing it or maybe replacing the motor controller on my Gert board?
I don’t want to risk killing the new R-Pi so would be grateful for your opinion.
Many thanks.
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