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Poll: Are You Interested in element14 Offering Reference Design Activities?

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A number of our leading suppliers have reference designs using their products, which typically come with schematics and other documentation. Some are already built and some the user would need to build.

The element14 team has discussed how we could use these reference designs in our community programs (i.e., Challenges, roadtests, special projects, quizzes, giveaways, et al.), and even new programs that we would offer to our members for fun, enrichment or practical use.

But we first wanted to gauge your interest in establishing a reference design area on element14. Hence, this poll.

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  • I broke this into two comments because the first time I commented the whole comment disappeared. I needed to see if it could be saved.

    One issue with reference designs is that although everyone uses them, not many members would have a use for a specific reference design at the same time. There is often a significant learning curve which implies a pretty big commitment to use the part in a design. I suspect it would take extra incentive to stir up widespread interest in participating in a heavy learning or building exercise around a specific reference design, but there may be a few examples where the reference design is useful or has wide appeal, that would work..

    If members were incentivized to blog about reference designs, I am sure many members would be interested in reading about them.

  • in reply to dougw

    The learning opportunity can also be part of the appeal. The opportunity to gain new knowledge and share that with the community.

  • in reply to Jan Cumps

    Absolutely, learning is a strong motive and there are others like need for a working solution. The hard part is to find enough members who have these motives for a particular reference design, all at the same time.

    I like the "appeal of sharing the experience" motive, because I am sure there is member interest in reading content that is shared. Maybe that aspect can be emphasized.

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  • in reply to Jan Cumps

    Absolutely, learning is a strong motive and there are others like need for a working solution. The hard part is to find enough members who have these motives for a particular reference design, all at the same time.

    I like the "appeal of sharing the experience" motive, because I am sure there is member interest in reading content that is shared. Maybe that aspect can be emphasized.

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