We’re giving away amazing kits from our new Make: Ultimate Kit Guide EVERY DAY — thousands of dollars worth of merchandise, including MakerBots!

To celebrate the release of our latest publication, the Make: Ultimate Kit Guide 2012 (and its companion website), we’re giving away at least one of the cool kits reviewed in the issue each day during the holiday season.
Today’s giveaway is for a ProtoSnap Pro Mini Arduino development board. Here is MAKE Engineering Intern Tyler Moskowite’s review from the issue:
The ProtoSnap Pro Mini is one of the more interesting Arduino kits. Manufactured on a single PCB, it includes a preassembled Arduino Pro Mini (0.7″×1.3″) and snap-off accessory boards like an FTDI Basic Breakout board, buzzer, RGB LED, light sensor, pushbutton, and a general-purpose
protoboard for wiring up your own custom components. Snap off each piece, and you’ll see there are holes to solder pins, wires, or however it needs to connect. Then you can load your project’s sketch onto the Pro Mini immediately to start testing. Finally, the documentation is concise, for those just getting started with Arduino, and even enjoyable to read. This is a great kit for Arduino lovers of all experience levels.
To be eligible for today’s giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment below in this post. The entry period for today’s prize will be until 11:59pm PST tonight. We’ll choose one person at random, you’ll be notified by email, and you’ll have 48 hours to respond. The Winners List is kept on the Giveaway landing page. That’s it! No purchase necessary or anything else to do. Please leave only one comment per post. You can enter as many giveaways as you like until you win. This giveaway is for US residents only. You also must be 18 years old to enter (Kids: Ask your parents to enter). See the Kit-A-Day Giveaway landing page for full sweepstakes details and Official Rules.
Important Note: If you enter this drawing, when it’s over, please check the place where you registered to comment (eg. Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter). Some people are winning these kits and then not responding when we send them a message using the available means of contacting them. We want to make sure you get your giveaway!


this could be the starts of a great project for “web OF Things”
Entering!
snap crackle pop
Looks cool
I have been wanting one of these since it showed up in the maker shed!
I’d take one of these for myself. Gave this kit to a cousin for her birthday and she loved it.
Add this to the list of things I wouldnt say no to
Enter Me Please
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Here we are again
I would very much like to win this prize.
am i first? thanks for giving, make
That thing looks so cool.
I can’t believe that you’re giving away five makerbots, too. Those are just amazing.
I love the MAKing holidays…
One more day, going for the win.
Arduino FTW!
This’d be nice to have…
gimme
Please!
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Please
This looks like a great little kit, sign me up!
Entry,
I am more of an PIC-Micro, but would love to give Arduino (aka Atmil) a try. Then give this to the local maker-space.
FTW!
What a cool kit to have!
Haven’t seen these before – I like the modularity! Looks like it could easily be breadboarded, too. Might be going on my wishlist if I don’t win…
I’ve had my eye on one of these for a while. I hope I win.
Sounds like just the thing i need to start learning Arduino!
That is so awesome!
i like it alot, just what i need
Great concept. This kit would definitely provide some good Arduino fun!
this would be very cool to play with
I’d like to throw my name in the hat for this one! Woo!
ohhh, snap…
Yay! I need a Pro Mini!
Yes please, and thank you very much.
very cool
Tell me about the Arduinos, George! Can I play with one?
please pick me
BooYa
Wow, I didn’t even know about this product. Awesome
Very cool snap off design.
Tiny micro controllers. Hooray!
WANT!
Looks like there’s a lot of fun to be had there.
I need this for some mini projects
Don’t pick me, since I’ll definitely be ordering one as soon as I don’t win, and that would be bad for business. Of course, I could always use two…
Somebody stop me!
Want. Also, I checked Disqus and I could not find anything about email. I have the correct address in my profile so I will assume that sites that use it have a way to send email to an address associated with an account.
Had a play with these at our hackerspace. Great fun!
looks like fun.
looks interesting…
Slick.
This thing looks amazing. I’m going to have to pick one up.
oh SNAP!
Very cool!
This might be interesting
I’ve been eyeing one of these for awhile.
Well, this contest is having the desired effect: I now REALLY WANT one of these things. It’s just a cool idea.
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Entry,
My local maker-space could use one.
Looks Snappy.
Excellent!
nifty
Will I win today?! I hope so!
Neat
neat
Nice.
This could be a fun toy.
I never win
I’d like to try one
I’ll take one!
Nice!
This is such a cool kit! I want it!
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Must have! Great project already in mind.
Cool!
Nice this includes the FTDI breakout on a separate board: plenty of uses for other projects too!
Cool.
this is exactly what i have been looking for. cool!
Very cool! I definitely want one..