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Project14 Prizes

javagoza

Hi ! I'm a bit disappointed to see the change in prizes for the project14 competition. While I understand the decision to switch to a kit, I think many past participants were looking forward to the shopping carts.

The shopping carts offered a great opportunity for winners to experiment with new components for their next projects, learn more about Farnell and Newark's product offerings and provide valuable feedback through reviews and suggestions about the products and the shopping experience.

I hope this change doesn't discourage future participation in the competition.

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  • Never ever wanting to complain about free stuff, but the shopping cart had the advantage to order miscellaneous parts in advance for future E14 projects. For example, procuring board mounted terminal boards, sensors ( temperature, ToF, proximity,  gesture, IR, etc) , controllers ( a new Pico 2 for example), resistors, caps, fuses, LEDs & neopixels, atomisers, needed tooling replacements (solder, solder tips, flush cutters),  etc.      

    I can appreciate it was work to manually enter the parts again from the Newark Shopping Cart and deal with shipping confirmations. Maybe Newark can create a marketing charge number for project winners so shopping carts could be processed online. 

    The more stuff I had on hand provided more motivation to be creative and use it for doing projects.

    One thing for constructive feedback, the spiders all sound really cool for halloween, but the competition is over in November, and it takes 4 weeks (or more) to have a project judged and announced, so those spiders will likely need to be snow spiders for December delivery  :-)  The Rpi5s are cool, hopefully with a power supply and hookup cables  :-) 

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  • Never ever wanting to complain about free stuff, but the shopping cart had the advantage to order miscellaneous parts in advance for future E14 projects. For example, procuring board mounted terminal boards, sensors ( temperature, ToF, proximity,  gesture, IR, etc) , controllers ( a new Pico 2 for example), resistors, caps, fuses, LEDs & neopixels, atomisers, needed tooling replacements (solder, solder tips, flush cutters),  etc.      

    I can appreciate it was work to manually enter the parts again from the Newark Shopping Cart and deal with shipping confirmations. Maybe Newark can create a marketing charge number for project winners so shopping carts could be processed online. 

    The more stuff I had on hand provided more motivation to be creative and use it for doing projects.

    One thing for constructive feedback, the spiders all sound really cool for halloween, but the competition is over in November, and it takes 4 weeks (or more) to have a project judged and announced, so those spiders will likely need to be snow spiders for December delivery  :-)  The Rpi5s are cool, hopefully with a power supply and hookup cables  :-) 

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  • in reply to robogary
    robogary said:
    Maybe Newark can create a marketing charge number for project winners so shopping carts could be processed online. 

    I can't go into a lot of detail on the process, but I can say that it needed a member of the team to be an intermediate stop-gap and what you're suggesting wouldn't be possible at present.

    Though I always look for producing solutions.

    robogary said:
    One thing for constructive feedback, the spiders all sound really cool for halloween, but the competition is over in November, and it takes 4 weeks (or more) to have a project judged and announced, so those spiders will likely need to be snow spiders for December delivery  :-) 

    There's always next year :D - I suggested we give away an advent calendar.