Monday, November 30, 2020

Electronics Deals Cyber Monday 2020

Cyber Monday electronics deals are here.  Many of the deals listed in my blog post on Black Friday are still available from Adafruit, Polulu, SparkFun, and Tindie.

1BitSquared has a 15% discount off any piece of hardware with the checkout code BLACKFRIDAY2020 through Midnight (US PST).  They have a few unique development boards and JTAG accessories.  They have hard to find JTAG adapters and cables that are useful for ARM processor debugging.  I have used the Black Magic 0.1in Pin Header JTAG cable for STM32 debugging.  They also have STM32 and FPGA development boards and the Black Magic Probe for ARM Cortex MCUs.

MikroE is having deals until Tuesday December 1st on many products.  This includes 25% off most Click Boards.  These are small accessory boards that use the microBUS socket available on many different development boards including the low cost Microchip Curiosity Development BoardsMicroBus Click Boards are great for prototyping or general DIY projects.  You can add just about any sensor, analog or digital interface, or communications module you would need.

RobotShop is discounting specific products from 5% to 50% for it's Cyber Monday sale.  Of course this includes robot kits and parts, but you can also find Arduino boards, electronic learning kits, drones and Raspberry Pi development boards.

Friday, November 27, 2020

Electronics Deals Black Friday 2020

Black Friday is a great time to get a new development board or some parts for a DIY electronics project.  Here are a few great online electronics stores where you can find deals.

Adafruit is having two sales, one is for 15% all items in stock with the code ADATHX see more details in the Adafruit Thanksgiving Weekend Sale blog post.  The Adafruit Feather line of development boards is 20% off today only with the same code, see Adafruit Feather Friday Sale for details.

Polulu has a few different Black Friday deals.  There are coupons for individual products, discounts on your entire order and the unique design your own deal sale.  Follow this link to Pololu Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale 2020 for the details.

The design your own deal allows you to propose propose a discount for up to three products.  Last year I was able to get even bigger discounts than I asked for.  I don't recall the original prices but I was pleasantly surprised that they were all approved and discounted further.  Here are my three wishes and the deals I was offered.

You requested: 1 at $12.00 each.
We can do even better!  Up to 3 at $8.88 each.

You requested: 1 at $3.00 each.
We can do even better!  Up to 3 at $2.75 each.
   

You requested: 1 at $15.00 each.
We can do even better!  Up to 3 at $14.00 each.

SparkFun Black Friday Deals are discounts from 15 to 60 percent off select products.  There are not as many deals here but you might get lucky and find something you want.  You can also check out this sneak peak of Cyber Monday Deals.

At the Black Friday Sale on Tindie many development boards are discounted.  Tindie is a unique online store featuring independent sellers of all kinds of development boards and accessories for unique applications.   If you haven't been to this site before it's a great time to look around.