Morning from ESC Farnborough,

In case you hadn't guessed, mbed is now official! We turned on the website and showed mbed off publicly for the first time at ESC Boson a couple of weeks ago, and got a really great response. Thanks to everyone who came and visited at the stand, and for all the support.

The really great news is that the mbed Microcontroller is now available for pre-order in Digikey and Farnell (see the order page). The price these guys are putting it out for is impressive, and the demand has been higher than we could have imagined, so we're making more batches as fast as we can! The lead time for orders is totally based on supply vs. demand at the moment, and could be up to 6-weeks, but it is basically first come, first served. As long as you know that and you are happy, please go ahead and order one!

• Order an mbed!

On a final note, our twittering billy bass demo was also a bit of a hit :) I'll make sure we write that up properly and give him the credit he is due.

We're now looking forward to seeing what projects people are planning, and working on mbed to improve it to make it even easier for you to try them out!

Thanks,
Simon (on behalf of everyone on the mbed Team)