Arduino Store Opens For Beta Testers

We are thrilled to announce that as of today the official Arduino Store opens to beta testers. This restricted testing phase will be followed by a gradual release to the whole community.
It was quite and effort that required the redesign of our web infrastructure to unify the authentications systems to provide a uniform user experience.
The store is just at its beginning but it is already available in three languages English, Spanish and Italian. More languages will follow soon. It will become a place where to find the best products made by Arduino, its partners and all those companies or individuals who make great Arduino-compatible products.
We wanted to take this chance to reward the people who contribute the most to the Arduino community.
We’ll be starting with the forums. The top 5 contributors to the english forums and 1 member of each non-english forum will receive a 200 USD voucher to spend on the store.
As the test progresses we will be providing more vouchers to other kind of contributors (developers , documentation writers and more).
Stay tuned and thank you for your patience!
May 10th, 2011 at 20:18:34
Finally!!!! Can’t wait!!!
May 10th, 2011 at 21:24:15
What defines a beta tester? Do they need to have previously applied or been asked?
May 10th, 2011 at 21:26:58
Can’t wait to see… New boards? Built in RTC, more memory?
May 11th, 2011 at 01:20:15
That’s a great notice!! Don’t forget mexican developers 🙂
May 11th, 2011 at 07:24:36
I also want to know. I have some website development experience (although its Joomla experience). Plus I can help with documentation or something.
But this is very exciting. All the best with the testing etc.
May 11th, 2011 at 10:32:59
Is it highest number of posts or consistent average most posts per day?
I come 5th on posts per day from the list of top 10 posters. 😀
May 11th, 2011 at 13:06:40
Wait and see.
🙂
/d
May 11th, 2011 at 13:28:14
can’t wait for shop’s open announce… 😛
May 11th, 2011 at 18:06:58
Great! I’ll surely be buying a new Arduino board some time soon, so if you need one more beta tester, sign me up!
May 11th, 2011 at 20:01:11
but where is the store link?
May 12th, 2011 at 14:08:51
There isn’t any store link. The store is being tested be some Arduino user for some more time: it’s going to be launched next week.
Thanks for commenting,
Davide
May 12th, 2011 at 21:01:05
Christmas is early this year… Woho!!!
May 17th, 2011 at 18:24:38
Is it really going to be launched this week? I need a new UNO and maybe a MEGA, so I might wait and see shipping costs and board prices.
Hope shipping is good cause right now having to pay 8 euros when buying a 23euros Arduino UNO is a killer.
May 20th, 2011 at 03:16:28
buena onda
May 23rd, 2011 at 15:24:36
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