GPIBEE is now carried by Batronix, a test and measurement company in Preetz in northern Germany. They ship across Europe, including Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Both language versions of the product page are live: the English shop and the German shop.
What this changes if you are in Europe
Until now the only place to buy one was Binho in the United States. Binho have been a great partner from the beginning: they backed the product early, they know test and measurement inside out, and customers there get proper support in their own time zone. I could not have asked for a better start.
For a European buyer, ordering from the United States means an import: duty, VAT collected at the border, a customs form, a courier handling fee, and a delivery estimate that quietly becomes a range. For a 300 euro instrument accessory, that overhead is a real part of the decision.
Batronix ship from Germany. Inside the EU that means no import duty and no customs paperwork at all, and the parcel arrives in the ordinary way rather than via a customs broker. For Switzerland and the UK there is still a border, but it is one they cross constantly and know how to handle.
The other thing a distributor brings is the boring commercial machinery that a one product company does not have: an invoice your purchasing department recognises, a returns process, and somebody who answers the phone in your own time zone. Plenty of labs cannot buy any other way.
Who they are
Batronix have been selling test equipment and programmers for a long time, and are better known to most engineers as a shop. What is less widely known is that they also build their own instruments. Their oscilloscope, the Magnova, is designed and manufactured in Germany, which is a genuinely unusual thing for a company of their size to take on. It is also a pleasure to work at: a 15.6 inch screen where most scopes give you a postage stamp, build quality you notice the moment you touch it, and firmware that Batronix keep actively developing instead of abandoning a year after launch.
That mattered to me when we first spoke. A distributor who has shipped a product of their own knows what they are looking at when they evaluate somebody else's. They tested GPIBEE properly before agreeing to carry it, Benches included, and came back with the kind of questions you only ask if you have actually used the thing.
The coincidence
Here is the part I enjoyed more than I probably should have. I was a Batronix customer long before this conversation started, and the oscilloscope on my bench through most of GPIBEE's development was a Magnova. Theirs. Bought from them, at full price, for reasons that had nothing to do with any of this.
So a good deal of the debugging behind this adapter, chasing GPIB handshakes and watching bus lines settle, happened on a scope built by the company that now sells the result. Not only the GPIB side either: the Ethernet interface was brought up on the same instrument, with ngscopeclient doing the protocol decoding. A 100 Mbit line asks rather more of a scope than a GPIB handshake does.
Firmware and support
Firmware comes from here and stays free, the manual and the tutorials stay on this site, and technical questions reach me directly at support. A distributor sells and ships. It does not sit between you and the person who designed the adapter.
Units leave my own stock in Germany, assembled and tested here, so what arrives in a Batronix box is the same adapter it would have been in any other box.
Where to buy
The Where to Buy page now lists both routes: Batronix for Europe, Binho for the United States, with Amazon and DigiKey listings there as well. If you distribute test and measurement equipment somewhere neither of them reaches, I would still like to hear from you.