@Raspberry_Pi why is it 2 months down the line and the pizero is still not available for order?
They’ve decided to give up on the platform once they found out I didn’t have plans to port FastLED to it 
@Daniel_Garcia mate, You have no idea how much i would love to see FastLED on the RPI. I’m using a NodeJS plugin MRAA (https://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/mraa) and a combination of hackery to drive APA102 pixels. Its so annoying to set up.
Unlikely to come from myself or @Mark_Kriegsman – my primary interest w/FastLED is bare metal, OS less environments like the esp8266, arduino, teensy, etc… - I’m not even sure it’ll play nicely with RTOS’s on those pieces of hardware (but it might! However, only so much time to work on this, better to stay focused
(The PRU on the beaglebone black has some interesting possibilities - but that’s also way off in the future, if ever).
@Daniel_Garcia I know, I’m just dreaming
It’s punishment for not subscribing to the magazine and getting it in the December 2015 issue.
@Kelvin_Mead Like the original Rpi it seems that demand has far outstripped supply. I tried before Christmas to get the magazine in the shops, but gave up and got a subscription for 6 months. I was also lucky enough to grab a couple more zeroes when the second batch came into the online stores. I don’t think it’s the ideal LED driver though, better for general purpose Linuxy stuff and it makes a nice little old school arcade emulator/media server/internet radio etc. I suppose it might make a good master control unit for some slave Arduino type boards running LED displays, but it doesn’t have built in wi-fi or any other network connection; think they missed a trick there for a potential IoT device.
yeah, tis annoying.
also, im not that good at google+, i didnt realise that this was posted to fastled! whoops.
i dont really understand the problem with supply and demand. they have a huge demand for a product, but “cant keep up”?
theres thousands of pcb manufacturing companies, are they limited to one company?
Generally, yeah - it takes a bunch of time/cost to spin up working with a new fab 
and the very high volume ones probably want up front payments that are higher than rPi can afford.
just been reading the forums, and they keep saying that they are a charity, and they dont have the funds…
but, they have customers willing… what bank wouldnt loan them, or even… kickstart it!
they have the people to say, alright, this is a £5 computer, you can have it for £8 (cover fees, add postage), collect £200,000, start production.
more people would be behind this than waiting, possibly months, to maybe get one.