https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1287



This kit now free, thanks to your US government (well, sorta).

We’ve decided to offer our furloughed friends a small gift for all their troubles - your choice of the RedBoard Starter Kit, the MaKey MaKey, or the ProtoSnap Lilypad E-Sewing Kit! It works like this - if you’re one of the government employees stuck in a furlough, send us an email at [email protected] with an image of your furlough letter, which kit you’d like us to send you, and your mailing address. Then we’ll send you your free kit!

We’re going to run this deal for two weeks or until the shutdown ends (whichever comes first). We hope this will at least give you something to do until the powers-that-be can get their respective acts together.

We’re a small business trying to help out our family and friends. Now please write your representative and ask them to do the same.