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Can You Still Build This?

We take a classic board, pull its public parts list, and check every active part against live availability. The verdict is never a headline, it is two numbers: how many parts you can still buy today, and how many are still in production. The gap between them is the risk. Read from public sources only.

How the audit works
01

Pull the parts list

We start from the board's public bill of materials, every active part, by reference and function. Commodity passives and the PCB are counted as one bucket.

02

Check live availability

Each active part is checked against distributor stock and manufacturer status. Buyable and in production are two different questions, leftover stock is not a supply.

03

Report the two numbers

The verdict is the gap: how many parts are still made, and whether the ones that are not are parts the design depends on. No vendor, nothing for sale.

The verdict scale

Sustainable

Buyable and in production match. You can build it now and re-order the same parts for years.

Buildable

Every part is still buyable, but some only from leftover stock. Build today; plan crosses before the stock runs dry.

Not buildable

A part the design depends on is gone with no stock and no drop-in. The board needs a redesign, not a re-order.

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Can you still build it? One board, audited to the last active part.

We pull a classic board's public parts list and check every active part against live availability. Two numbers: how many you can still buy, and how many are still in production.

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Verdicts: Sustainable buyable and in production · Buildable buyable today but not all in production · Not buildable a part the design depends on is gone. A board defaults to Buildable unless tagged sustainable or not-buildable.

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