At the moment, 4000 units have been shipped by Raisonance to ST. 2000 more will be received by ST at mid December. Hopefully, there will be some stock at the distributors by this date.
For the Contest, we agree that the non-availability reduces the development time. We will discuss this issue.
Our goal was to close the submission before the Embedded Show in Nuremberg in order to ask the visitors for their opinion about the submitted projects (may be a vote?). Therefore, it is difficult to decide to postpone the schedule...