Microcenter is running a sale on the Digispark USB Development Board. They are usually $9.95 but are on sale for $5.99 for the next two weeks. I backed them on Kickstarter and this is even a cheaper price than I was able to get them for…
You can’t beat this board if you are looking for a small, low powered Arduino for those disposable projects.
–Ed
Sweet! I will go pick up a few.
I’d also like to endorse these boards.
It’s funny, even though the image of the board says “Digispark”, microcenter calls it a “Digistump”.
fwiw, the image of the board also says digistump.com ;-x
Wow, nice find! I just grabbed 4. I've been running into this exact
problem lately - many light duty projects (data logger, sound level
sensor to relay trigger (for propane art stuff)) that don't require a
$10 nano let alone a ~15-$30 full blown arduino or clone. This is
pretty slick!
I bought 3 of these in the kickstarter and promptly lost two of them, so this will let me stock back up while feeling MARGINALLY less stupid for losing them.
Nice of the digistu.mp site to give you the arduino-1.0-4 release with
their stuff already integrated in it. Except now I have to figure out
how to copy the stump stuff into my main arduino folder. I should
learn this anyway.
I bought 3 online last night, gotta pick them up in-store by Friday. I bought parts to make a bunch of through-hole equivalent boards a while back but at $6 each, these are way better. Now to find a use…
What applications are they using these boards for?
Anything you’d use an Arduino for when you only need a few pins.
I have one of mine driving an 8x8 matrix in an art project. I only needed an I2C interface, my own board out of through hole components was too big, and I think the whole board is cheaper than the through hole components off the shelf anyway.
–Jess
I bought the last four they had yesterday, but today I ordered a few more from their website with in-store pickup (free shipping, but tax is charged).
They have a small variety of prototype shields and i2c lcd display kits as well. They are located in the gaming section about 8 or ten feet right of the SparkFun section.
They had a starter kit for $14.95 with the dev board plus a prototype shield (I think). I didn’t want to buy that because I think it’s cheaper separately with this deal.
Matthew
I was very pleased when I went to get mine to see the large section of kits, arduinos and similar stuff in that section. I had no idea microcenter had added that section.
I know I brought a few of these down last week and had some interest. If someone wants one but doesn’t want to drive to Microcenter I can pick them up on my way down tonight. Just try to let me know ASAP.
Coy