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What are your Tips for an Organized Workbench? [Ask e14 - Join, Share & Win Competition] September 2025

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e14phil 6 days ago

Calling all makers, engineers, and tinkerers! If your workbench is a masterpiece of order or even a chaotic haven with hidden gems of organisation, we want to hear from YOU!
Join the element14 Community today and take part in our latest “Join, Share & Win” challenge.

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Photo Credits: obones michaelkellett Jan Cumps 

Got a Tidy Workbench? Turn Your Organizing Skills into a Prize!

Calling all makers, engineers, and tinkerers! If your workbench is a masterpiece of order or even a chaotic haven with hidden gems of organization, we want to hear from YOU!
Join the element14 Community today and take part in our latest “Join, Share & Win” challenge.

It’s simple:
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What are your top tips for keeping your workbench organised?


3. Be in with a chance to WIN!

We’re celebrating the clever tricks, custom setups, and unique habits that help keep your workspace clean and efficient. Whether it’s colour-coded storage, custom tool racks, or a clever labelling system, we want your insight!

Here’s what you could win:

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What: Win 1 of 3 Arduino UNO R4 Minima
How: Sign up  or Sign in and Comment your best Workbench Organisation Tips below. 
When: Before September 30th 2025. 
Anything else: Full terms are below, but we must be able to ship to the address in your account. 

Entries close September 30th, 2025, so don’t wait!
Get organised, get inspired, and get rewarded with the element14 Community.


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  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett 5 days ago in reply to beacon_dave +4
    The great thing about the Really Useful Boxes is that they are ! I've been using them (mainly 18L, but other sizes too ) for (at least) 23 years. The pictures show only about 1/3 of them (and that…
  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave 5 days ago in reply to Jan Cumps +4
    Jan Cumps said: Got that covered Call that a power strip ?
  • dougw
    dougw 5 days ago +4
    Organization tips buried in a video - both what to do and what not to do...maybe not the best advice, but decades of hoarding might be worth a giggle.... https://youtu.be/wvbjW3c1gow In case the video…
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  • obones
    obones 6 days ago

    Lol, I see that my desk is shown in opposition to a a very neat one!

    And it's even worse now that the DSO has arrived!

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    I'm definitely looking for suggestions on how to organize all this into a more usable situation.

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  • obones
    obones 6 days ago

    Lol, I see that my desk is shown in opposition to a a very neat one!

    And it's even worse now that the DSO has arrived!

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    I'm definitely looking for suggestions on how to organize all this into a more usable situation.

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps 6 days ago in reply to obones
    obones said:
    Lol, I see that my desk is shown in opposition to a a very neat one!

    That's mine Slight smile. The prize should hit my mailbox in 3..2..1..

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave 6 days ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    I dunno, that coffee mug may have cost you a few points...  Slight smile

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps 6 days ago in reply to beacon_dave

    There's a story behind the mug. It deserves a place on the bench:

    When Texas Instruments still cared for their community, they released a limited series of coffee mugs, with a drawing that I made. This is one of those:

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    Original:

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave 6 days ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    I dunno, I think an element 14 mug might have been more appropriate here Slight smile

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  • BigG
    BigG 4 days ago in reply to obones

    Don't worry you / we are in good company. 

    Apparently Albert Einstein once commented "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" Grinning

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