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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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    luigimorelli over 6 years ago

    I always tried to explain how things work, in Math, Science and Computer science. Young people is ofteb thirsty of information, for lack of skills in hte teachers or lack of interest inn the mentors.

    I would like to see a bundle of objects for them: many small components pieced together to create a nice (school) lab.

     

    • A stabilized, variable power supply
    • A good tester (testing instrument) for voltage, current, power, resistors, capacitors
    • A transistor tester, able to show the type, the polarity, the beta curves and eventually the equivalents
    • A small-range, dual-track oscilloscope
    • A frequence meter
    • A curve generator (or super-oscillator)

     

    The two pros of such configuration:

     

    1. They are cheap
    2. They can be acquired in kit
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  • luigimorelli
    luigimorelli over 6 years ago

    I always tried to explain how things work, in Math, Science and Computer science. Young people is ofteb thirsty of information, for lack of skills in hte teachers or lack of interest inn the mentors.

    I would like to see a bundle of objects for them: many small components pieced together to create a nice (school) lab.

     

    • A stabilized, variable power supply
    • A good tester (testing instrument) for voltage, current, power, resistors, capacitors
    • A transistor tester, able to show the type, the polarity, the beta curves and eventually the equivalents
    • A small-range, dual-track oscilloscope
    • A frequence meter
    • A curve generator (or super-oscillator)

     

    The two pros of such configuration:

     

    1. They are cheap
    2. They can be acquired in kit
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  • n5kzw
    n5kzw over 6 years ago in reply to luigimorelli

    It might be helpful if the PS had 3 outputs even if two were fixed at +/- 12, 15, or 18v for op-amp testing.

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