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…

gpolder over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

3-) Texas Instruments EZ430-Chronos

me too!
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Former Member over 12 years ago

Definentely a raspberry pi or a 3d printer
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gpolder over 12 years ago in reply to Ramu

Raimondas Klemka wrote:

Yes. 3D printer would be nice to see on roudtest

You get what you wanted:

http://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1163
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Instructorman over 12 years ago

I have been investigating Source Measure Units (SMUs) lately. Even though they have been around for 20 years, I've only recently become aware of these hybridized instruments. This is an intriguing class of test equipment, especially for precise automated test of experimental devices in research and development labs. They combine a precsion DMM with a precsion power supply and an electronic load. Some even have waveform generation capability. I'd be thrilled to get my hands on a Keithley 2600B series SMU and compare it against a more traditional suite of test equipment performing device characterization tests.
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Former Member over 12 years ago

Myself i wanted to try several of the road test for my hobby as well as my line of work .The 3D printer i felt that i could apply it to both parts of my life it would come in handy in model railroading since the hobby has gotten away from kit bashing to buy and run with no pleasure in building the item. As far as work hours i can see a great use in the training part of my job creating training aids for Soldiers to use. As far as the controllers goes they would play a big part in making model railroad more digital
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Workshopshed over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hi Michael,
yes I can see a 3D printer would be brilliant for creating custom parts for model railroads (assuming they are not too big). Your mentioned of digital railways got me wondering if anyone had developped an open system for digital control of locomotives?
Cheers,
Andy
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Workshopshed over 12 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

I've got some SMD work coming up so if there are any magnifiers that need testing
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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

Hi Andy,

There is a DCC-library for the Arduino. I am running different programs on the Raspberry PI, which I would like to connect to the Arduino, but I did not yet found the time. See http://mrrwa.org/

Regards,
Bert
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Workshopshed over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

Ah yes, OpenDCC very nice.
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merlinuk55 over 12 years ago in reply to gpolder

i would like to roade test 13.56MHz RFID Starter Kit - RS232 Reader
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