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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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  • Nice Question at first. And happy new year from my side.

    Technically speaking as a maker, developer or engineer, we have many tools and some are never or rarely opened.

    There are many tools like that for me. But for me what is the most in this category are some of the SBC that I have. The reason they are not much used or opened is that it requires a lot of time to develop something that is of use and at the same time we learn from it.

    So for me there are some tools that I have used but not that much. There are mainly Single Board Computers.  The reason is sometimes it gets difficult to solve package dependency and configuration related issues on these development boards. It's kind of same like Python packages. We need specific version of specific package to build specific package and so on so forth. Hence, these dev boards are still not so much used in my lab. 

    1> Seeed studios ReComputer 1010

    2> Beaglebone Black

    3> Arty Z7 board from Digilent.

    Another question which tool that I wish I would have one? For me I wanted to get some VNAs for tuning my antennas. This is must for RF circuits and I am missing it.

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  • Nice Question at first. And happy new year from my side.

    Technically speaking as a maker, developer or engineer, we have many tools and some are never or rarely opened.

    There are many tools like that for me. But for me what is the most in this category are some of the SBC that I have. The reason they are not much used or opened is that it requires a lot of time to develop something that is of use and at the same time we learn from it.

    So for me there are some tools that I have used but not that much. There are mainly Single Board Computers.  The reason is sometimes it gets difficult to solve package dependency and configuration related issues on these development boards. It's kind of same like Python packages. We need specific version of specific package to build specific package and so on so forth. Hence, these dev boards are still not so much used in my lab. 

    1> Seeed studios ReComputer 1010

    2> Beaglebone Black

    3> Arty Z7 board from Digilent.

    Another question which tool that I wish I would have one? For me I wanted to get some VNAs for tuning my antennas. This is must for RF circuits and I am missing it.

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