It's Arduino Day! Today only (3/28/2015) starting at 12:01 a.m. MDT and running until 11:59:59 p.m. or until everything is gone, we're offering heavy discounts on some of our favorite Arduino and Arduino-compatible boards and Arduino accessories. So what's on sale? Let's take a look...
Please remember: all sales are WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!
That means no backorders. Arduino and Arduino-compatible boards have a limit of two per customer (that means two of each product - not two total). Accessories and shields have no order maximum (while they last).
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DEV-11113
SparkFun's minimal design approach to Arduino. This is a 5V Arduino running the 16MHz bootloader.
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DEV-11021
This is the new Arduino Uno R3. In addition to all the features of the previous board, the Uno now uses an ATmega16U2 instead…
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DEV-11114
SparkFun's minimal design approach to Arduino. This is a 3.3V Arduino running the 8MHz bootloader.
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DEV-11224
This is the new Arduino Uno R3. In addition to all the features of the previous board, the Uno now uses an ATmega16U2 instead…
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DEV-10915
It's blue! It's skinny! It's the Arduino Pro! SparkFun's minimal design approach to Arduino. This is a 5V Arduino running the…
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DEV-10914
It's blue! It's skinny! It's the Arduino Pro! SparkFun's minimal design approach to Arduino. This is a 3.3V Arduino running t…
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DEV-12757
At SparkFun we use many Arduinos and we're always looking for the simplest, most stable one. Each board is a bit different an…
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Is that all? Not...even...close! Here are all the other awesome products that are on sale. These products have the same rules about while supplies last and no backorders, but there is no limit on how many you can grab - have at 'em!
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DEV-09873
This is the newest revision of our [FTDI Basic](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/8772). We now use a SMD 6-pin heade…
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PRT-12002
This is your tried and true white solderless breadboard. It has 2 power buses, 10 columns, and 30 rows - a total of 400 tie i…
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DEV-09716
This is a basic breakout board for the FTDI FT232RL USB to serial IC. The pinout of this board matches the FTDI cable to work…
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PRT-00116
A row of headers - break to fit. 40 pins that can be cut to any size. Used with custom PCBs or general custom headers.
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CAB-00512
This is a standard issue USB 2.0 cable. This is the most common A to B Male/Male type peripheral cable, the kind that's usual…
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DEV-12761
Running out of memory space in your Arduino project? The SparkFun microSD Shield equips your Arduino with mass-storage capabi…
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DEV-11235
We've been prototyping for a long time on these awesome little plastic plates but it's time for an upgrade. This version stil…
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WRL-12847
The SparkFun XBee Shield mates directly with any dev board that has an Arduino standard footprint and equips it with wireless…
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DEV-10587
Do you ever wish your Arduino was more musically talented? Or maybe your project could use some cool sound effects. The Spark…
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PRT-10007
These headers are made to work with the Arduino Main Board, Arduino Pro, and the Arduino Mega. They are the perfect height fo…
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DEV-12858
This is the SparkFun Vernier Interface Shield, a simple add-on to give your Arduino the capability to interface with Vernier …
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WRL-09954
This new version breaks out the PI09, FORCE WAKE, and the hardware reset lines. It also has a different crystal and uses the …
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DEV-10018
The Modkit MotoProto Shield for Arduino that makes it easy to connect up to 4 sensors and control two DC motors as well as a …
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DEV-10039
This shield gives the Arduino CAN-Bus capability. It uses the Microchip MCP2515 CAN controller with MCP2551 CAN transceiver. …
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DEV-10406
This board is an evaluation platform for the SM130 RFID module. It includes an XBee header, PCB trace antenna, and has the la…
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DEV-10615
This is the Arduino shield version of our TLC5940 Breakout. The SparkFun PWM Shield will allow you to generate up to 16 PWM s…
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DEV-10618
This shield allows you to use a computer power supply (or other power source) to use your Arduino to switch high current. Wit…
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DEV-10628
This new revision of the SparkFun MP3 player shield retains the awesome MP3 decoding abilities of the last version but adds t…
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DEV-10661
The SparkFun VoiceBox Shield can be mounted on top of your Arduino board to give it access to all of the capabilities of the …
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GPS-10710
Adding GPS to your Arduino has never been easier. Multiple GPS receivers attach easily to the shield, and with the SparkFun G…
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DEV-10711
Is there anything an Arduino can't do? Well, for one, most of them can't be powered directly from a 3.7V LiPo battery; much l…
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DEV-10864
Ethernet connectivity is a great way to get your Arduino talking to other systems all over the world (or at least the network…
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COM-10878
We've heard you, and made a number of improvements to our EL Shield. The new version adds zero-crossing optoisolated triacs f…
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DEV-11018
The RFM22 is a low-cost ISM FSK transceiver module which offers communication at 433MHz ISM and adjustable output power of up…
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BOB-11420
This is the SparkFun MiniGen Signal Generator, a small shield for the Arduino Pro Mini that is capable of generating sine, sq…
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DEV-11469
The Arduino Leonardo arrived on the scene to great applause. This was followed by the creeping realization that, because of t…
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DEV-12013
The MPR121QR2 IC is a great way to build simple capacitive touch interfaces, and now it's even easier to incorporate into you…
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DEV-12071
This is a shield for the CC3000 WiFi Module. The CC3000 from TI (Texas Instruments) is a self-contained wireless network proc…
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DEV-12081
The Weather Shield is an easy to use Arduino shield that grants you access to barometric pressure, relative humidity, luminos…
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DEV-12887
If you aren't familiar with the Electric Imp, it essentially provides an easy, integrated way to connect almost any hardware …
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DEV-13190
We love 7-segment displays and we know you do too, so we have made the easiest (arguably) to use medium for you to get up and…
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DEV-07914
Riding on the waves of the very popular Arduino USB board is this small prototyping shield. Originally spawned with collabora…
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DEV-09346
The Arduino Mega now has its very own prototyping shield! The SparkFun MegaShield mates with the Arduino Mega board and gives…
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DEV-09595
The SparkFun MIDI Shield board gives your Arduino access to the antiquated, but still widely used and well supported [MIDI co…
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CEL-09607
**D****escription: **The Cellular Shield for Arduino includes all the parts needed to interface your Arduino with an [SM5100B…
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DEV-09627
Developed by Dave Vondle and IDEO Labs, this board is essentially the same as our Power Driver Shield, but the through-hole p…
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DEV-09729
The ScrewShield extends all pins of the Arduino out to 3.5mm pitch screw terminals. It also has a lot of the utility provided…
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DEV-09760
The SparkFun Joystick Shield Kit contains all the parts you need to enable your Arduino with a joystick! The shield sits on t…
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DEV-09815
This is a motor shield for Arduino that will control two DC motors. Based on the L298 H-bridge, the SparkFun Ardumoto can dri…
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RTL-09896
www.sparkfun.com/datasheets/DevTools/Arduino/Ardumoto_test_3.pde
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DEV-09947
This new version corrects the pin out for the GPX and RESET pins. The SparkFun USB Host Shield contains all of the digital lo…
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If you're having a hard time figuring out which Arduino is for you, check out this handy comparison video:
Hope you have a great Arduino Day and are able to grab some products to help make your next project a great one!
In the video Shawn says the MicroView runs at 3.3V, but according to the documentation it runs at 5V. http://learn.microview.io/intro/general-overview-of-microview.html
For people who are curious - some graphs:
imgur.com/a/E1JvX
( There were supposed to be some in an Arduino Day 2014 post-mortem as wellhttps://www.sparkfun.com/news/1439#comment-5336fcca757b7f684a8b4567, but Google's not finding it for me. )
Is Sparkfun ready or willing to comment on the direction of Arduino LLC and Arduino SRL? Regardless of the Make article from Massimo (Arduino LLC) or the recent letter from Martino (Arduino SRL), Martino's actions speak louder that words. I am curious as to how Sparkfun interacts with either company, from buying Arduino boards to any potential royalties (if that is a real thing) from boards being made by Sparkfun. I would love to see Sparkfun make a stance against Martino, but if not willing to do that, at least educate us on Sparkfun's interaction.
Thanks!
I'm also curious about this. Partially because I care about the future of Arduino. Partially because I'm curious about the state of products like Arduino Zero (only sold by Arduino SRL right now).
At this point, we're not quite ready to comment. But we're working on gathering our thoughts and putting something out there soon.
Thank you!
Why put the voicebox shield on sale if backorders are not allowed?
We had 3 weeks worth of these built and available as of Friday morning. But, unfortunately, 2 orders were placed that day that wiped us out of that one board. And we did not have enough time after those two orders were placed to get more built up for today. Heading into Friday we felt good about the quantity of those we had ready to go. But those two orders prove how tough it can be to manage the long tail.