Reminder: SparkFun’s free day, tomorrow!

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January 6th, 2010 160

Don’t forget: Tomorrow is SparkFun’s day of free merch (from 9am – 11pm MST). Here’s Becky’s original post from November:

Sparkfun is giving away things for free on January 7!

You can blame it on Chris Anderson’s book Free. After reading his book, I started kicking around the idea of what we can do that’s ‘free’. Sure, we have free bits (open-source hardware designs, available code, etc.), but we don’t have free physical widgets. Now combine that with our love of creating shear havoc (AVC, C&D letter, Portable Rotary Phone), and you get Free Day.

Nobody gives away a free physical thing. There’s always a catch. So up front: you have to pay shipping. Other than that, it’s open season.

$100 max per household

You pay shipping

Limit of $100,000 in giveaways for the day

Starts 9AM MST January 7th, 2010

Ends 11PM MST January 7th, 2010 (or when we hit $100k, whichever comes first)

Rainchecks for popular items will be allowed