{"id":19233,"date":"2018-11-23T10:14:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T09:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19233"},"modified":"2018-11-23T19:55:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T18:55:02","slug":"black-friday-deals-for-the-raspberry-pi-and-maker-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19233","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday deals for the Raspberry Pi and Maker community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blackfriday.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19234\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blackfriday.jpg?resize=560%2C379&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blackfriday.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blackfriday.jpg?resize=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blackfriday.jpg?resize=768%2C520&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blackfriday.jpg?resize=1024%2C693&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blackfriday.jpg?resize=560%2C379&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blackfriday.jpg?resize=260%2C176&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blackfriday.jpg?resize=160%2C108&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blackfriday.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blackfriday.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi everyone. I&#8217;ve gone through my big list of Pi and Maker companies and put together a list of those offering Black Friday deals. Find them below!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modmypi.com\/specials?sort=ps.price&amp;order=DESC\">ModMyPi<\/a> &#8211; Up to 50% off a range of products &amp; FREE Pi Zero Wireless on orders &gt; \u00a3100 with discount code 100ZERO. Some great stuff here with decent discounts, including the pi-top Raspberry Pi-powered laptop and robotics kits from Pi Borg, and that&#8217;s just the start.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/collections\/special-offers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pimoroni<\/a> &#8211; up to 40% off various products, including their own. Plus, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pimoroni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow them on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0throughout the day to win gift cards on the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23YarrBooty&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#YarrBooty<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thepihut.com\/collections\/raspberry-pi-sale-items\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pi Hut<\/a> &#8211; various discounts up to 50%, all worked out for you.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.piborg.org\/specials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi Borg<\/a> &#8211; some <strong>very<\/strong> special offers here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.pi-supply.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi Supply<\/a> &#8211; 15% off selected products with code BLACKPIDAY18 at the checkout.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nostarch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Starch Press<\/a> &#8211; 42% off absolutely everything from this brilliant book publisher using code FRIDAY42.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.rpipress.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raspberry Pi Press<\/a> &#8211; 50% off books and back issues.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bareconductive.com\/shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bare Conductive<\/a> &#8211; up to 25% off all weekend.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2018\/11\/23\/this-black-friday-its-feather-friday-at-adafruit-use-the-code-blackfruit-to-get-20-off-feathers-and-15-off-items-storewide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adafruit<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Use code\u00a0<strong>BLACKFRUIT<\/strong>\u00a0to get a 20% discount *only* on Feather products! All other items will be 15% off. (Discount does not apply to gift certificates, subscriptions and software)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tindie.com\/browse\/sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tindie<\/a> &#8211; some great discounts from various independent makers over in their store.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.playpiper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piper<\/a> &#8211; $100 off the Piper computing kit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As usual, if anyone spots any other offers, add a comment below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone. I&#8217;ve gone through my big list of Pi and Maker companies and put together a list of those offering Black Friday deals. Find them below! ModMyPi &#8211; Up to 50% off a range of products &amp; FREE Pi&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19233\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[564],"class_list":["post-19233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpi-shopping","tag-black-friday"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Black Friday deals for the Raspberry Pi and Maker community - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19233\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Friday deals for the Raspberry Pi and Maker community - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi everyone. 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you're probably here because you Googled Raspberry Pi Black Friday deals or something :-) Black Friday is upon us. 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