Adafruit IndustriesReviews of adafruit.com

Tons of great tools and products for those in the makers movement, along with a huge effort for making effective guides for people to learn. Always have received my orders quickly, and without any issues.

Flood of negative reviews - Looking at the subtext it's apparent there's a lot of right-wingers upset at the "wokeness" of this retailer. I've had both good experiences with Adafruit support and shipping, but I wouldn't assume this is the same for everyone. You can buy Adafruit products many places, and with how busy they are understandably you're going to have a different experience than Amazon customer service. Keep up the good work, Adafruit!

This website is awesome. I ordered a whole bunch of their products, and all have arrived (Not always on time) how I wanted them. They even started manufacturing face shields and ventilator pieces! I am happy to have found Adafruit.

best customer service i have ever dealt with, although a bit hard to work out how to contact them

Adafruit makes and sells great hardware. I use them frequently since they carry a wide selection and provide tutorials for nearly every product they sell. This has helped me save enormous amounts of time when getting started working on a project. Since they are located in NYC, they will ship and deliver on the same day if you really need it and you're also in NYC (and I've really needed it in the past). Although I've seen other angry reviews here, I haven't personally had any bad experiences with their customer service. They prefer to provide product specific support on their forums since they sell many different items and this way the community can chime in with suggestions, usually even faster than they can themselves. For me, this is a plus. I've also only ever had to return an item once and had no issue getting the RMA and shipping the item back. As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy with them and plan to continue working with them for parts.

A great range of microcontroller boards including M0-based ones that make this world far more accessible to novice programmers with Python support. Gemma M0 is wonderfully small and CircuitPlayground Express has a lot of features/sensors for the price. File system interface on those also allows programming without any additional software bar a text editor. Very helpful development support via Adafruit forums and Discord. I can't comment on Adafruit's online shop as I'm outside of the US - Mouser Electronics and the like are more convenient for me.

This is not only a good website to shop for electronics like Raspberry and Arduino but also has a good learning section where you can find cool stuff to build. I like to order from this site although it might be a little bit expensive to ship to the Netherlands because you will need to pay tax when you receive the products. But thats not Adafruits fault.

Problem with missing pieces--within minutes of notifying them, they had a new kit going out to me by overnight shipping--free of charge to me.