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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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  • gecoz
    gecoz over 6 years ago

    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

     

     

    Fabio

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  • gecoz
    gecoz over 6 years ago

    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

     

     

    Fabio

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  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 6 years ago in reply to gecoz

    This would be so cool (and popular), especially the microscope. I like SMT as there is less drilling required of the PCB during manufacture and it is more of a challenge.

     

    ps: Actually just roadtesting a decent head magnifier would give some useful advice for us to help make a purchase - bundled with some tricky 0402 components and thin gauge solder.

     

    Rod

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  • Andrew J
    Andrew J over 6 years ago in reply to 14rhb

    That would be some test! In fact, it would be an amazing head magnifier that would let you solder 0402 without burning your nose image. Count me in.

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