Black Friday 2024 Deals on Maker Electronics!

Here are some of the deals major online electronic retailers are offering this Black Friday!

Adafruit Industries -15% Off with code acidburn15 Hack the Holidays – Use Code acidburn15 for 15% Off « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! 

Pololu is offering discounts (up to 50% off!) on many electronic components including Robot Chassis, motors, sensors, and much, much more! Check out the link for all details and a categorized list of all products on sale: Pololu Black Friday Sale 2024.

seeed studio Thanksgiving Sale While Thanksgiving day may be over, the seeed studio 2024 Thanksgiving Sale is happening right now! The sale includes Buy 2 get 1 Free on select products, special offers, and, for 11/29 (Black Friday!) only, a flash sale. Link to entire sale: Exclusive Sale: Up to 90% Off & Buy 2 Get 1 Free & Flash Sale & Pre-Sale Offers

Black Friday Sale on Tindie has many devices from various shops, including wifi adapters, battery testers, and much more!

Arduino Online Shop has plenty of devices on sale, including the Arduino Nano, Arduino Uno, and Nicla.Arduino Online Shop

STMicroelectronics is offering free worldwide shipping through November 30th!  Additionally, select Motor Control Evaluation Boards have discounts with code DV-ASP-BOGO-11 at checkout. eStore - STMicroelectronics - Buy Direct from ST

Raspberry Pi While not a Black Friday deal, the Raspberry Pi Compute Module is now available for $45 from the Raspberry Pi Store. It is a modular version of the Raspberry Pi 5.

2024 Black Friday Sale - BC Robotics Receive free gifts with purchases and save on select items. Additionally, there are door crasher deals.

Parts Express save 12% sitewide with code BLACKFRI24

RobotShop has up to 70% off on select products

JLCPCB:Black Friday 2024 Deals and Coupons- Coupons on PCB orders

Find any other great deals on electronics? Let me know in the comments below!

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 Boards.  MicroBus 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.

SparkFun Free Day 2012

In a few weeks SparkFun Electronics will be having free day where random visitors to the website will receive a $100 gift certificate.  The fun starts on January 11th, starting at 9AM Mountain Time.

Sparkfun is a great resource for your electronics needs.  In addition to parts and kits, you can find a tutorials like this one on selecting an accelerometer breakout board, and some interesting competitions like the autonomous vehicle competition.  I found a connection with a local school, teacher Steven Kennedy from Orchard Park High School is profiled in this SparkFun ad.  If you click the previous link you can see the full resolution and you can see from the poster he even has his own youtube channel for student projects.

Robotshop Taking Over The World's Robots

Robotshop is already the leading source for robots, now they want to control all of them with the MyRobots.com portal. The service is currently in beta, but free, so you might want to register now to try it out. The site lets you monitor and control your internet enabled robot with an open API.  If your robot doesn't have an internet connection, the MyRobots Connect kit will let you access the serial port of with an XBee wireless transceiver.

Another part of MyRobots.com that is under development is the Robot App Store, where you can sell your robot enabled apps that can run on the robot or in the cloud.

Of course, if you don't yet have a robot, you can buy one already compatible with the site from Robotshop.  Shown below is the Arduino compatible DFRobotShop Rover.  They have a lot more than robots, including development boards, soldering equipment, 3D printers and test instruments.

RepRap Free Desktop 3D Printer

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RepRap from Adrian Bowyer on Vimeo.

For more 3D printers like this see my post 3D Printers for the Masses.

3D Printers for the Masses

Fab@Home aims to change the way we live by allowing anyone to produce custom 3D objects with a 3D printer developed at Cornell University.  Shown below is Model 2 being developed in the Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab.

You can build your own personal fabricator by following the instructions on the Fab@Home wiki or buy one at the NextFab Store.  The video below shows one in action creating a gear.

 

Here's another video showing how it can mill foam and wood.

Update: MakerBot is another 3D printer that you can make yourself for less than $1000 (Update: latest model fully assembled is almost $2000).  It creates ABS plastic models using a heated extrusion process.  You can buy a kit and spools of various colors of plastic material to create with at the MakerBot Store.