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It would be even more successful if it was possible to actually buy the boards.

I got one early on, and I would have more, but every time I've looked since they've been out of stock. A big part of the RPi success story is that they figured out early on that supply chain would be a problem and got the right partners involved to deal with that.

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So are you outside the US? I have bought all of mine from Digikey, they currently have 787 in stock (http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/BB-BBLK-000/BB-BBLK...) so presumably if I ordered today I'd have it in 3 days (priority mail)(Mouser has over 1200, Element 14/Farnell has eight thousand)

[1] http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/CircuitCo/BB-BBLK-000/?q... [2] http://www.element14.com/community/community/designcenter/si...

They were definitely out of stock this summer, when I was looking at updating my BB project to BBB.

Availability is much improved over just 6 months ago.

My beef is now that I've actually got one in hand, it's like pulling teeth to find documentation on addressing/using the GPIO ports. I can easily use them with the Node libraries, but where's the docs on setup/use of GPIO with the C runtime if I don't want to use Node?

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