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

e14phil
e14phil 23 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:
1. Register (or Login) for FREE
2. Answer this question by adding a reply / commenting:

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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Arduino Uno R4 Minima

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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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  • kmikemoo
    kmikemoo 15 days ago +5
    Recommendation: The Other Pegboard - for those infrequently used items that don't warrant prime real estate but you still need to have around. Credit to robogary for adding pegboard to the list of workbench…
  • rsc
    rsc 12 days ago +5
    I made a nice holder for small screwdrivers and bits, and I can easily move them from desk to desk.
  • kmikemoo
    kmikemoo 10 days ago +5
    Recommendation: Simple custom tool holders. While my holders aren't as cool as rsc's , this "challenge(?)" has motivated me to clean up the tools that just lay around on the workbench. The heat gun holders…
  • bradfordmiller
    bradfordmiller 23 days ago

    I have a simple organizational principle: "Push down stack". The most recently used item is always near the front and on top. That's potentially a problem when the next-most recently used item was a soldering iron, and the most recently used item was paper, but I can usually deal with that by having a fire extinguisher handy.

    NB: organized just means "arranged in a systemic way", not "neat" or "tidy". I pride myself in being neither (A clean desk is a sign of a dirty mind!). 

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps 23 days ago

    My clever trick is waiting until phoenixcomm  posted the workspace. Any follow up post will be considered "tidy"

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  • wolfgangfriedrich
    wolfgangfriedrich 23 days ago

    My personal experience from the last few years: Move places. It forces you to clean/declutter and you can start fresh with an empty workbench. 

    Now seriously, packing finished/non-finished/for-later project into clear plastic boxes of appropriate size. Then you can see from the outside what treasures you might be able to salvage for other projects. 

    And a very generic tip: Adam Savage's book 'Every tool's a hammer' has a galore of good advice inside. Even the title is a solid theme to live by. 

    PS: I had a co-worker who said, if you see me cleaning my desk, my resignation will follow shortly.

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  • FreeBird
    FreeBird 23 days ago in reply to bradfordmiller

    I would be embarrassed to post a picture of my desk. 

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps 23 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 23 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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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave 23 days ago in reply to FreeBird

    If you can actually see your desk, you are probably doing ok. Slight smile

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps 23 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 23 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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  • dougw
    dougw 23 days ago in reply to wolfgangfriedrich

    If you see me cleaning my workbench it is AI fake news.

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