Hey Road Testers! What product(s) would you love to get your hands on?

What products are you excited to get a hold of in the future? Is there anything out there you've been watching and just waiting to be released to get your hands on? Let us know!

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Former Member over 14 years ago +8

I would really enjoy to test some new arduino stuff. I got some projects in mind, like a midi controler or a 3d printer that would be good to have arduino stuff to do it.
peterloron over 14 years ago +8

I'd be keenly interested in some low power wireless (ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, DASH7, etc) demo kit. TI has some nice stuff as do some of the other vendors. The "smart lightbulb" that Google is coming out with…
DAB over 14 years ago +6

Hi Nicole, Asking for ideas is a very good idea, especially since your road tester base has increased dramatically over the last month. As for what I would like to road test, Test equipment, oscilloscopes…

Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to nlarson

My wish for today

As I'm often locating faults with no real access to quality information.
A device that I can hook up to a wire in the modern electronics laden modern motor vehicle to enable me to find the wire amongst a bunch of others somewhere else without having to physically probe each one in turn.
Be a big help in fault finding.
Something similar to what telephone techs use but not likely to destroy electronics or trigger the airbag / seatbelt pre tensioner circuit turning vehicle into a write off.

Regards
Don NZ
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Former Member over 13 years ago

What I would really be interested in seeing/testing is thermal imaging cameras, like the ones from Fluke or Flir.
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Lupo over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

Good idea. I think should be nice to test some spectrum analyzer as well.
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dweb98 over 13 years ago in reply to nlarson

I'v been wanting to get my hands on one of these since 2007 and now they have a new model of The New Raspberry Pi. It comes with 512MB of Ram. I would still like to see what I can buld with a Pi. Maybe, revive one of the Dead Laptops, that are under my bed...

Don
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Lupo over 13 years ago

I think this is a product to roadtest on element14: http://www.st.com/internet/evalboard/product/252565.jsp?WT.mc_id=steval-ihp002v2_enews_mth_oct12
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Lupo over 13 years ago in reply to nlarson

Hi Nicole,

what do you think about a roadtest of the new Arduino Due? I'm sure a lot of us are interested.
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nlarson over 13 years ago in reply to Lupo

Hi Lupo - thanks for the suggestion! I'll talk to the team and see what they can "Due"!
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bad_boy_y over 13 years ago in reply to nlarson

the GertBoard with the new raspberry PI 512mb
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bodgy over 12 years ago

The soon to be released Microchip 3D Gesture and Tracking controller (Gestic technology) development board (DM160217) could be an interesting item to test.

http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/technology/gestic/products.html

Colin
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aemarconnet over 12 years ago

In the radar industry, the bread and butter of our manufacturing revolves around “Cold testing” our products while in the assembly phase. To cold test a radar tube we drive a signal (via a Waveform Generator) and look at the reflected power via a Scalar Network analyzer (HP 8757A’s are very common ). We see the modes of oscillation the tube will support as "dips" in the reflected power (becuase this power is lost on the circuit).. I have seen waveform generators as road tests, but I would be thrilled to road test a generator/analyzer pair…or potentially even a vector network analyzer.

Cheers!
Alex
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