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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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  • I bought it for the day I’d become a ‘serious engineer.’
    That day never came.
    but the tool did.

    It exists to remind me that buying tools feels like progress.image

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ~ANONYMOUS 

                                                                                                                                                                                                             - me 6 years after buying a multimeter

    being serious then multimeter lies at second place ,first place was taken when I recently upgraded my lab to start working with the new Arduino Uno Q. Since it's a high-performance hybrid board with a Qualcomm processor, I was genuinely paranoid about static electricity frying the chips. I went out and bought a professional-grade ESD (Anti-Static) Wrist Strap with the 10mm stud and a high-visibility coiled cord.

    On the day the board arrived, I was so excited to wire up my new touchscreen and dive into the Linux side of the Uno Q that I completely forgot the strap existed. I spent six hours debugging I2C signals while wearing a fleece jacket and sitting on a carpeted chair. It wasn't until I was cleaning up my workbench at 2 AM that I found the strap, still neatly coiled in its plastic bag, sitting right under my multimeter.

    Now, it has a permanent home hanging on the corner of my monitor—it serves more as a 'lucky charm' than a safety tool. I touch the metal casing of my oscilloscope to ground myself and look at the strap with a mix of guilt and irony every time I power up a new project!

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  • I bought it for the day I’d become a ‘serious engineer.’
    That day never came.
    but the tool did.

    It exists to remind me that buying tools feels like progress.image

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ~ANONYMOUS 

                                                                                                                                                                                                             - me 6 years after buying a multimeter

    being serious then multimeter lies at second place ,first place was taken when I recently upgraded my lab to start working with the new Arduino Uno Q. Since it's a high-performance hybrid board with a Qualcomm processor, I was genuinely paranoid about static electricity frying the chips. I went out and bought a professional-grade ESD (Anti-Static) Wrist Strap with the 10mm stud and a high-visibility coiled cord.

    On the day the board arrived, I was so excited to wire up my new touchscreen and dive into the Linux side of the Uno Q that I completely forgot the strap existed. I spent six hours debugging I2C signals while wearing a fleece jacket and sitting on a carpeted chair. It wasn't until I was cleaning up my workbench at 2 AM that I found the strap, still neatly coiled in its plastic bag, sitting right under my multimeter.

    Now, it has a permanent home hanging on the corner of my monitor—it serves more as a 'lucky charm' than a safety tool. I touch the metal casing of my oscilloscope to ground myself and look at the strap with a mix of guilt and irony every time I power up a new project!

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