Sparkfun Free Day:-
Sadly wasn’t able to snag anything for free,even the new servers weren’t able to deal with the number of people trying to get things for free.Was really looking forward to getting a free arduino and a few other components(look at the pic).I did take away a few pointers from the whole episode.
- Reinforced my awe for the power of free-people were awake at all kinds of ungodly hours(across the world)to take advantage of the free day.The IRC server had more users on the sparkfun channel than the Ubuntu and Debian channels.
- Offering stuff for free probably is not the best way to make friends.Best summed up by a comment I read somewhere which went something like this “they probably made a 1000 friends and a lot more enemies”
Well my Arduino controlled Christmas Lights will have to wait till I have some money in my pocket.All said and done really loved the initiative by Sparkfun you really can’t blame them,would love to do business with them in the future.
The most interesting thing is that according to one of the sparkfun employees Free Day paid for itself within a few hours that’s huge.
This post has been in the draft for quite a while(been out of town) but there has been an interesting update an Indian website tried emulating the same free day approach but offered around 500Rs or 10USD worth of free stuff from the website though they did not have an Arduino Board I was able to snag a Breadboard,IR Sensor,IR LED’s and an alphanumeric display which I want to use in a future project.They actually called and confirmed the order with me I was pretty impressed by the Customer Support.So here’s a hat tip to them and a link to their website if you are into robotics you should find the place pretty interesting.
