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

rscasny
rscasny over 7 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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  • gsgill112
    gsgill112 over 7 years ago

    WoW can't believe its 10 Years.... ..

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  • dougw
    dougw over 7 years ago in reply to gsgill112

    I'm wondering how many members there were in that first year and how many are still active....

    If you were a member in 2009, congratulations .... and speak up …. image

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    dougw over 7 years ago in reply to gsgill112

    I'm wondering how many members there were in that first year and how many are still active....

    If you were a member in 2009, congratulations .... and speak up …. image

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  • najath
    najath over 7 years ago in reply to dougw

    invite I got from Premier Farnell to join element14 "web portal", way back in June 2009 image.

     

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    I wasn't sure whether to join or not. It took couple of reminders from them to finally convince me to join on Nov 11, 2009.

     

    Notice the name then: element-14 (with a hyphen). Removal of the hyphen few years later caused me problems, as the page wouldn't load from my saved bookmarks. I thought the site was down and not-maintained anymore. Google came to my rescue, as a quick search identified the name change.

     

    PS: If I remember correct, element14 website was preceded by two editions of Electronic Design for the Global Environment Challenge in 2007 and 2008, organized by Premier Farnell. Most of the people who initially got invited to element14 were participants of those competitions. A quick online search gave me the following two links

    https://www.premierfarnell.com/media-centre/premier-farnell-announces-live-edge-winner

    https://www.premierfarnell.com/media-centre/premier-farnell-announces-live-edge-2008-its-international-100000-usd-challe…

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  • stevesmythe
    stevesmythe over 7 years ago in reply to dougw

    5th July 2018. I just wish I had discovered this place earlier. I have really enjoyed participating and discussing things with fellow element14-ers!

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  • dixonselvan
    dixonselvan over 7 years ago in reply to dougw

    OMG! 2009 I didn't even had a clue that my future would be into Electronics! I was doing my schooling back then in 2009. It was around 2014/15 I became familiar with Element14 store when I was doing my under graduates and then the Element14 Community around 2016.

     

    So for only 2-3 years I have enjoyed the goodness of Element14 community and hope it continues forever. Glad to know that some familiar members have been around here for a very long time.

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 7 years ago in reply to dougw

    Join date.. March 3rd 2011.

    I wish I could find the earliest electronic bits I purchased from Farnell, but my e-mail provider ditches emails after a while. The earliest I could still retrieve was in 2007.

    Looks like I was ATMEGA'ing at 03.06 in the morning.

    It's interesting looking at prices. I assumed parts would cost more nowadays, but from this small sample generally the prices have gone down.

    The ATMEGA's are slightly cheaper nowadays. The second item and third item (MOSFET and diode) are half the price now.

    But the ceramic caps -  MLCC prices have trebled  : )

     

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  • Gough Lui
    Gough Lui over 7 years ago in reply to dougw

    June 2011 ... so not me image.

     

    - Gough

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  • gpolder
    gpolder over 7 years ago in reply to dougw

    about one year later, September 16, 2010

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  • dougw
    dougw over 7 years ago in reply to dougw

    I'm around Sept 2013 but waiting for guys like vsluiter , shabaz , DAB , mcb1, Robert Peter Oakes , johnbeetem , fustini to chime in.

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  • bwelsby
    bwelsby over 7 years ago in reply to dougw

    October 2010 for me

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 7 years ago in reply to ntewinkel

    October '13

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  • ntewinkel
    ntewinkel over 7 years ago in reply to dougw

    Looks like July 2011 for me.

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