Post date: Feb 26, 2016 5:20:30 PM
You might be thinking: "That title doesn't make sense! Adafruit is a privately held company!".
Of course I'm referring to stock of Pi Zeros.
I built a shell script to monitor Adafruit's stock. It's been silently working away on a Pi B for a month, with nary a peep. Until yesterday!
THE DATA
02/25 13:10 stock was 97
02/25 13:15 stock was 79
02/25 13:20 stock was 62
02/25 13:25 stock was 39
02/25 13:30 stock was 12
THE ANALYSYS
As I suspected, they release in batches of about 100. And they sell out in less than a half hour. There was also a warning sign that Zeros would go on sale: bundles went on sale a day before, and they were available for most of the day.
This also shows how fortunate I was in being able to order one from them a month ago: I just happened to check their website during a 30 minute window.
Oh, and my code works! Also, I suggest you check out another Pi stock monitoring site. I've been using them when I can't see my monitoring system.