Where to Find 2024's Best Black Friday Dev Board Deals

Whether you're looking to get a head start on next year's projects or simply in search of a gift for the makers in your life, we've scoured the internet to find some of the best Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals from many of our favorite DIY brands. Happy shopping and hacking!

Particle

This holiday season, Particle is heavily discounting many of their development boards, kits, and cellular-enabled LTE tracking system-on-modules (SoMs).

Wi-Fi/BLE boards:

• Photon 2 - 50% off
• Argon IoT Starter Kit - 28% off
• Argon Starter Kit - 90% off
• P2 Module - 61% off

Boron, M-SoM, and B-SoM:

• Boron LTE-M - 37% off
• Boron LTE-M Starter Kit - 42% off
• M-SoM LTE-M + WiFi - 37% off
• B-SoM LTE-M - 37% off
• SoM Evaluation Board - 28% off

Tracker Series:

• Tracker One LTE-M - 67% off
• Tracker SoM LTE-M - 70% off
• T-SoM Evaluation Kit - 72% off

Arduino

Arduino has discounted a wide variety of boards, kits, and bundles- including their Pro line.

For fans of IoT, the following Wi-Fi/Arduino Cloud-enabled boards are on sale:

• Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect - 35% off
• Arduino MKR WiFi 1010 - 20% off
• Arduino GIGA R1 WiFi - 25% off
• Arduino GIGA Display Bundle - 10% off
• Arduino Nano 33 IoT - 25% off

A mix of classics along with some of their newer counterparts are available for up to 25% off:

• Arduino UNO R4 Minima - 15% off
• Arduino UNO R3 - 10% off
• Arduino Mega 2560 - 15% off
• Arduino Due - 20% off
• Arduino Nano - 15% off
• Arduino Nano 33 BLE Rev2 - 25% off
• Arduino Micro - 20% off

For professionals, industry, and embedded machine learning applications:

• Nicla Sense ME - 25% off
• Nicla Vision - 25% off
• Nicla Voice - 25% off
• Portenta X8 - 30% off
• Arduino Opta Lite and WiFi - 7% off and 5% off, respectively

And rounding out the list are several kits/bundles to expand your knowledge of electronics in several different formats:

• Make Your UNO Kit - 40% off
• Arduino Starter Kit - 30% off
• Arduino Cloud RP2040 Connect Bundle - 34% off

Adafruit

Adafruit is having a store-wide sale on nearly everything from November 27th through December 2nd. Simply enter the discount code acidburn15 at checkout.

SparkFun

SparkFun has been running a sale each week of November, and for this final week in the lead-up to Black Friday, several of their most popular educational kits are on sale through December 1st:

• SparkFun Tinker Kit - 30% off
• SparkFun Simon Says Through-Hole Soldering Kit - 30% off
• SparkFun Inventor's Kit - Starts 11/27
• XRP/XRP DIY Kits - Starts 11/28
• Weather Meter Kit - Starts 11/29

Pimoroni

For all things Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi Pico, Pimoroni is having a sale on many RP2040/RP2350 boards, accessories, and even Raspberry Pi Starter Kits.

Raspberry Pi Kits:

• Raspberry Pi 5 4GB Starter Kit - 10% off
• Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Essentials Kit - 10% off
• Raspberry Pi 4 1GB Essentials Kit - 10% off

Raspberry Pi Pico 2/RP2350:

• Tiny 2350 - 20% off
• Tiny 2040 - 25% off
• Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 - 20% off
• Pimoroni Pico LiPo 16MB - 25% off
• Pico Display Pack 2.8" - 20% off
• Servo 2040 - 18-Channel Servo Controller - 30% off

Visit the Pimoroni store to see the full list of deals.

Seeed Studio

On November 28th and 29th only, Seeed Studio will be having a flash sale with large discounts on popular items. And continuing this sale, deals will continue through December 9th in case you missed out.

MakeBlock

Educational robotics company MakeBlock is offering up to 50% off on their kits and classroom laser cutter/engravers through November 30th:

• mBot2 - 27% off
• mBot Ranger - 37% off
• mBot Ultimate - 23% off
• xTool P2 Edu Laser Cutter Bundle - 33% off
• xTool F1 Edu Laser Engraver Bundle - 46% off