Are there any products you own - that you'd like to write a RoadTest Review for?

Most of my meters, tools, and electronic parts are on the verge of obsolescence. It doesn't take very long to get there.

Road tests help me to look forward. 

This is a fantastic idea although I cannot quite decide if my vote is option 1, 2 or even 3. I quite like option 3 as an incentive.

It was only yesterday that I was looking at this dev board: https://ie.farnell.com/microchip/ev33a17a/curiosity-ultra-dev-brd-arm-cortex/dp/4459393?MER=BR-MER-PDP-RECO-STM72194

I decided that it was a hefty price to pay (+$100) to satisfy my curiosity. E.g. the NXP dev board (FRDM-MCXE247) is much cheaper (circa. $30).

The reason for looking at this board is that the chipset is an Arm Cortex-M33 processor and includes 10/100 Ethernet. Perfect for Single Pair Ethernet etc.

What is also very attractive is that the chip itself is sub $5.

This is one of many such cases.

Speaking of SPE, I have 2 Arduino SPE shields sitting in a box that I have yet to try out. Maybe this is the prompt to do something.

I selected the second option. Usually, in a road test review of a product, you can also see reviews of the same product from others, allowing you to compare ratings from different people. If we include reviews of the product we own along with the road test, there is no guarantee that other people who have the same product will add their own reviews as well. As a result, people who want to know about the product may be influenced by only one review, which is not a good idea.

I want to roadtest alumina paper. Please check this link https://www.heatinsulations.com/ceramic-paper-9243612.html. I wan't to make Ic desoldering out of it. Please let me know if you can get such product in your roadtest profile.

I have a phenomenal tool I'd like to show off (carried by Newark/Farnell).

It needs a selection of connectors. Is there a proposal process to negotiate a road test where e14 supplies some connectors? 

that would be interesting - Arduino shields are T1S and we are mainly exploring T1L here...

That would be a great way of forcing oneself to thoroughly learn some prizes we may get - some may be underutilized by using only some standard subset of functions instead of exploring all the possibilities...

balajivan1995 said:

If we include reviews of the product we own along with the road test, there is no guarantee that other people who have the same product will add their own reviews as well. As a result, people who want to know about the product may be influenced by only one review, which is not a good idea

I'm not sure I follow the logic of what you're saying here, could you try explaining it differently?

manojroy123 said:

Please let me know if you can get such product in your roadtest profile

Well it needs to be a product on our online store, and this discussion was about products you already own, but we're always interested in hearing about products people want to write a review for.

dougw said:

Is there a proposal process to negotiate a road test where e14 supplies some connectors?

That's part of what we're thinking about with this thread.

Also, since you're a Top Member you can always ask in the forum there and we might arrange something.