Nice deal: $22 Arduino w/real time clock … and oh by the way it also snaps directly onto a Raspberry Pi!
The Wyolum folks are just great all around, and their “AlaMode” is cool way to bridge the Pi world (wifi, Python, et al) and the Arduino world. At $22 on sale today, it’s a deal worth looking at.
Originally shared by Justin Shaw
Amazing deal on AlaMode: $21.99. This is is a killer deal for an Arduino derivitive with:
real time clock (DS3231)
uSD card interface and
raspberry pi GPIO interface
We use these for all of our Arduino projects, not just raspi/arduino projects because most of our projects need SD and RTC!
I’m in, based on the clever name alone… 
Great idea, but at $51 to ship a small packet, MAKE can stick it up their raspberry
I got a similar-sized board from Sparkfun for about $7 shipping. That’s a company that actually cares about foreign orders.
WTH.
I continue to feel like there’s a coop-based warehousing / shipping thing almost waiting to happen here, but I’m a bit busy to put it together myself.
@Mark_Kriegsman I’ve been in discussion with a number of US suppliers over this and it looks like sheer laziness on the part of some fulfilment companies.
I buy stuff from Sparkfun, their shipping is awesome - for a couple of Electric Imp and breakout boards - $3.45 shipping. From Spark.IO, a single Spark Core - $59 shipping.
The difference is, Sparkfun sell a lot of products outside the US and have bothered to set up a range of different options. Of course if I want express from Sparkfun, I can also pay them $60, but they have about 6 delivery options for my locale from <$5 to >$50.
Despite what a lot of people in the US say about them, USPS is great for shipping outside the US - I can get a decent package of half a kilo of parts in a paperback-book-sized package for about $25 that will arrive in 2 weeks. That’s superb. But… lazy logistics means that isn’t even offered from someone like Spark who’s only option to send a matchbox costs $60.