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In Honor of element14's 10th Birthday: What is Your Favorite RoadTest Bundle?

rscasny
rscasny over 6 years ago

The 10th birthday of element14 is just around the corner. It's quite an accomplishment. I'm sure most online communities come and go, and only a few survive that long. My colleagues have been talking about doing something for this special event. I thought I would throw my hat into the ring, so to speak, and offer up a question for everyone in the RoadTest group to answer. Here it is:image

 

If you had a chance to pick the products to bundle together for a single roadtest, what would they be? We have roadtested a lot of amazing products over the years. From Raspberry Pis to oscilloscopes to connector kits to cool hand tools, and more. What more is there???!!!

 

Be creative and have some fun with this. I don't want to limit you. Think of this in a small way as your "Dream RoadTest." To help you think about your Favorite RoadTest Bundle, I went back and looked at the types of products we have roadtested over the years. They seem to be in the following categories:

 

  • Test Equipment
  • Soldering and Product Equipment (remember the Fume Extractor)
  • Hand Tools
  • Single Board Computers
  • Development Boards (Wireless, IoT, Sensing, Analog, etc.)
  • Antennas
  • Enclosures
  • Connectors
  • Debuggers
  • 3D Printer (back in Christian DeFeo's days)
  • Robot kits

 

To participate, leave a comment below and list the parts of the bundle and a brief explanation of why you chose the parts you included.

 

Sincerely,

 

Randall Scasny

RoadTest Program Manager

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  • dougw
    dougw over 6 years ago +15
    Test equipment is very nice to have to track down issues or measure performance, but I am far more interested in inventing, designing, creating and building than test and measurement. My goal is to design…
  • gecoz
    gecoz over 6 years ago +12
    For a change, I would love to test a SMD soldering bundle including: iron/hot-air rework station microscope (mid-specs) reflow oven (mid specs) SMD tools and soldering practice kits fume extractor Fab…
  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 6 years ago +11
    Hi Randall, Firstly, I really love the diversity of products offered through your roadtest scheme, there is always something there to stretch the learning or build on personal electronics capability. From…
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  • ralphjy
    ralphjy over 6 years ago

    Since I've been retired for a while and lost access to the lab equipment where I used to work, I'd really like to roadtest and thereby acquire some high performance test and measurement equipment.  The Catch-22, of course, is that to test high performance equipment against their specs usually requires using other high performance equipment.  Since this is a "dream" bundle it would be nice to test a high performance oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, and arbitrary waveform generator.  Maybe limit the frequency to 2GHz to keep the costs reasonable.  The other bundle that I'd like to see would be a fabrication bundle - a laser cutter, NC mill, and large format 3D printer.

     

    Development boards and software are great, but it's nice to roadtest stuff that will get a lot of reuse to justify the time and effort invested.  The downside of doing high cost roadtests, of course, is that it would limit the number of units available so there is less opportunity to participate.

     

    Just some thoughts....

     

    Ralph

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    14rhb over 6 years ago in reply to ralphjy

    Good points Ralph,

     

    There is a a very-well priced Spectrum Analyser on Farnell https://uk.farnell.com/gw-instek/gsp-730/analyzer-spectrum-150khz-to-3ghz/dp/2460236  which goes out to 3GHz....would be nice to check out designs in the ZigBee bands image as well.

     

    Rod

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    14rhb over 6 years ago in reply to ralphjy

    Good points Ralph,

     

    There is a a very-well priced Spectrum Analyser on Farnell https://uk.farnell.com/gw-instek/gsp-730/analyzer-spectrum-150khz-to-3ghz/dp/2460236  which goes out to 3GHz....would be nice to check out designs in the ZigBee bands image as well.

     

    Rod

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