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Top Members Secret Santa - Unwrapped

spannerspencer

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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  • So finally here is my video for the Secret Santa that I received today.

    Many many many thanks to my secret santa,  and the entire E14 Team for making this possible. For a while now, I have been struggling with some personal issues however this reminded me to get back to work and hope for the best.

     

    Thanks once again,

    Cheers,

    IP

  • in reply to ipv1

    Ah yes, the multiple tools! It's well known about the great work you do with your students Inderpreet, and that was clearly factored into your Secret Santa gifts -- sharing with them is undoubtedly part of the plan, so please do go for it image

     

    Fantastic video, and thanks very much for the shout out image Always appreciate it; you guys are the best!

     

    Oh, and sorry you got hit with an import charge. Again! There were specific instructions attached to all these deliveries that fees were to be charged back this way, so my apologies about that!

     

    As Mark says, excellent knife work, too image

  • in reply to spannerspencer

    I will compile a video of the giveaways in a month since I will be taking a while to spread the word.

     

    UPS is expected to do something or the other in a messed up way so you should not be surprised... I'm just glad everything reached intact.

     

    As for the knife well, after looking at that video clip and Dundee being so 'hands-on', I prefer the more gentleman like approach.- I'm gonna get a flamethrower instead image

    It may interest you to know that in India, by law, civilians are not allowed to carry weapons or blades over 6-inches long. Sikhs are the exception and can carry the traditional 'Kirpaan' which is basically a curved sword. Something like that would be an overkill and I would prefer a more 'technical' way to unbox things.

     

    The guillotine was something I was thinking about BUT thats left to design decisions. A guillotine designed to chop off only say 2mm off a box of any size would be something worth exploring. Think of it like a cigar cutter on steroids...

     

    Opinion?

  • in reply to mcb1

    That is used to cut photos and such slim papers into the correct sizes. I need something like that times 20 in size image

     

    Indeed, the workings of such organizations is a closely guarded secret. Dave was able to get UPS to charge back ONCE but these days I'm just glad that they are getting delivered. And its not just UPS, I had won an RS tshirt once and the other courier went silent all of a sudden. Had I not followed up, they prolly would have 'disposed' of the package. Ive have many colleagues complain that the couriers did not deliver unless there was a charge to be recovered.

     

    On a different note, I am really glad to see so many secret santa gifts delivered and see how everyone enjoys the presents. image

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  • in reply to mcb1

    That is used to cut photos and such slim papers into the correct sizes. I need something like that times 20 in size image

     

    Indeed, the workings of such organizations is a closely guarded secret. Dave was able to get UPS to charge back ONCE but these days I'm just glad that they are getting delivered. And its not just UPS, I had won an RS tshirt once and the other courier went silent all of a sudden. Had I not followed up, they prolly would have 'disposed' of the package. Ive have many colleagues complain that the couriers did not deliver unless there was a charge to be recovered.

     

    On a different note, I am really glad to see so many secret santa gifts delivered and see how everyone enjoys the presents. image

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