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What’s one tool you own but never use? We are asking e14 in our Join, Share & Win Competition

E14Alice

Hello Everyone! 

Firstly, I would love to wish you all a Happy New Year! 

We’re back with another AskE14 question, and this one’s all about your tool stash! We all have that one tool tucked away in a drawer, gathering dust because we never seem to use it, or maybe you bought it for a project that never happened, or it just wasn’t as useful as you thought.

Here's the question: 

What’s one tool you own but never use, and why?

Is it something you regret buying? Something that looked cooler than it turned out to be? Or maybe something you think you should use more often, but never do?

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Competition Details

You'll have to be a member of the element14 Community to join in and take part in this “Join, Share & Win” challenge. It's simple, all you have to do is:


1. You need to make sure you are  Register  or Login
2. Then answer the following question by adding a reply or commenting!

    What’s one tool you own but never use, and why?

The Community team will then select the best 4 answers to win the UNO R4 Arduino! 

Entries close 1st February, so don't wait! 

This month, we are giving away:

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UNO R4 Minima

Terms and conditions 

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The Winners

  

  

  

  

  will be reaching out to you soon to confirm contact details

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  • If you can count dev kits as tools, I would say the tool I bought and never had the opportunity to work with is the "EFR32xG24 Explorer Kit."

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    A few years ago, the Matter standard started gaining traction, and this kit was a low-cost option to serve as a Matter device. I got two of this kit to explore the matter support. I wanted to connect the kit with my Amazon Echo dot which will act as thread border router and control the device locally. Unfortunately, my Echo device could not connect to the kit no matter what I tried. I wrongly concluded that the kits might be defective.

    Later, Element14 announced the Arduino Matter road test, which uses the same chip in an Arduino Nano form factor where we had some discussions regarding how to configure the thread border router (Including Raspberry Pi). Only then did I realize that Echo Dot is not equipped with a chipset that supports thread protocol and can't be used as thread border router. The problem was not with the kits, I had simply tried to use the wrong Echo device as a border router.
    And now those two kits are sitting idly somewhere in the racks.

  • in reply to balajivan1995

    For what it's worth I used the link you provided above to apply for a chance of getting a free board.

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