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Top Members Secret Santa - Unwrapped

spannerspencer
spannerspencer over 9 years ago

I don't know if everyone's aware, but there's a private section of the element14 Community for the Top Members, who are brought in by invite (as decided upon by the existing Top Members and the element14 team), where they discuss matters around the direction of the Community, where they help out with beta testing Community updates, and even test out new products, RoadTests & Reviews-style. But mostly they just go waaaaaay off-topic and descend into rants and raves about which Minion avatar is the strangest, or who has the biggest... soldering iron.image

 

Anyway, in December the Top Members all gathered together around the eggnog tree to exchange techno-gifts, which we (The Management) facilitated to some degree by way of distribution. Now, I know the Christmas season won't get into full swing again until late August, but their Secret Santa gifts are now arriving upon their workshop doorsteps.

 

So I'd like to invite those Top Members to give us all a big unveiling of what they got, who their Secret Santa was and why they chose the gifts they did, and for the whole Community to join in with a few ideas on what these insane elite engineering eccentrics ("improved" meaning for IEEE?) can do with their hot tech gifts.

 

Merry Christmas!

 

 

Hmm? Oh, to become a Top Member is simple, but not easy. All you have to do is make a fantastic contribution to the element14 Community by way of great projects, insightful blogs, helpful suggestions (in Feedback and Support particularly) and generally spending all your free time on here enjoying yourself image  Trust me, these guys see everything that happens, so your efforts aren't going unnoticed image  Keep it up, and you'll be a Top Member in time for this year's Secret Santa!

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 9 years ago +12
    Thanks to Element 14 and Spanner for the great idea of a secret Santa! Well firstly, I had moved recently and had no idea anything would come. But then this arrived: I was as eager to find out what was…
  • Workshopshed
    Workshopshed over 9 years ago +11
    A big thanks to Element14, Spanner and my Secret Santa. A huge and heavy 21Kg box arrived this week whilst I was away. I opened it up this afternoon. www.youtube.com/watch Given that I was not really looking…
  • Problemchild
    Problemchild over 9 years ago +11
    Thanks for my Secret Santa Pressies.... here's me opening mine www.youtube.com/watch
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    Problemchild over 9 years ago

    Thanks for my Secret Santa Pressies.... here's me opening mine

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    Problemchild over 9 years ago

    Thanks for my Secret Santa Pressies.... here's me opening mine

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 9 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    Hey John,

     

    Good to see you. Nice pressies, but also nice lab!!

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  • balearicdynamics
    balearicdynamics over 9 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    Very happy for your Secret Santa John! You have not yet idea how much useful will be your Bitscope Micro !!!

     

    In your great lab scenario, this place-size monitor is a custom-sized production? image image image LoL A super big monitor as wallpaper like yours is one of my dreams, seeing music videos and netflix while working image

     

    Enrico

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  • ipv1
    ipv1 over 9 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

    Very nice place you have Problemchild Congrats on the gifts.

     

    I have to ask, does that large monitor work better than a dual monitor setup? Popular opinion is in favour of two monitors instead of one large one but its a matter of choice.

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  • COMPACT
    COMPACT over 9 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    I noticed the mat had ESD labelled on it - Does that stand for Extra Sensory Deception?

     

    Does the mat enable you to work flat out?

    Or does it give you a good connection to your work?

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    COMPACT over 9 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    Could you please give a RoadTest of the BitScope of I2C protocol decoding abilities when connected to a Raspberry Pi?

     

    I don't know whether to Start, Restart, Stop or Idle.

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  • balearicdynamics
    balearicdynamics over 9 years ago in reply to COMPACT

    Hello Compact, last year I wrote this short article on how to use the Bitscope PI : Essential Raspberry Pi Peripherals #5 The Pi-Scope lab tool

    Not so much about the software that you can find well explained and with good documentation on the Bitscope site. Here the link: BitScope Micro Model 5 | A tiny USB Mixed Signal Oscilloscope

     

    Hope this will help. Enrico

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  • COMPACT
    COMPACT over 9 years ago in reply to ipv1

    I can't stand dual monitor configurations where the centre of the desktop is between the two monitors or having a notebook connected with an external monitor because the mouse cursor navigation and application launching is fiddly.

    I find that using three giant monitors the go - particularly for persons with cataracts or aged eyes!

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    COMPACT over 9 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

    Thanks Enrico.

    I'd really like to look at John's efforts and his Secret Santa kit in action.

     

    "Did you just call me Solo?" from Episode VII

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  • mcb1
    mcb1 over 9 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    Excellent.

    I do like the large monitor, but I think I'll have trouble convincing Mrs Finance that I need one that large ...

     

    Mark

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to mcb1

    My new 30" monitor was pretty reasonable but anything larger and the prices become silly

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