SparkFun's Free Day came and went and while I was not one of the lucky few to get any free stuff, it was worth a try. I would call it a success on all fronts, perhaps except for the server stability. Part of the exercise was to stress test their hardware, and they very much did that. Having to have the infrastructure to withstand that load just wasn't practical I would not have thought. Besides, that's what made it fun. And I found some stuff that I will likely eventually want to buy and pay for anyway.

Kinda surprised there were people actually angry at the whole ordeal. Can you really be mad at the small chance of getting free stuff? Really? What did anyone expect would happen? In fact, I think it was summed up in a quote someone made on #sparkfun (on irc.freenode.net):

"Sparkfun - proving you can't give away $100,000 without a bunch of entitled assholes telling you how you're doing it wrong"

Pretty much...anyways congrats to all that did get free stuff and big thanks to SparkFun for making this happen! Hopefully the end up getting some good publicity out of it and the people who did get free stuff don't let it go to waste!

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