Would You Like To Test Out a Magnetic, Rotatable, IP67-rated Connector?

It's an interesting product - and one that could fairly easily be tested without needing anything to go with it.

I can't immediately think of anything that might require it, but it seems like the sort of product that would suddenly find itself a perfect fit for something. I can imagine myself working on some random project in the future and realising that it would be useful. It's the sort of thing that might sit in your toolbox for ages until one day you go "Aha! I have just the thing for that! Where did I put it?"

I wonder if it would be worth having a pool of useful components like this that members could request when working on a Project14 entry? Rather than trying for find a way to use it, just wait until it jumps out at you.

It's an interesting product - and one that could fairly easily be tested without needing anything to go with it.

I can't immediately think of anything that might require it, but it seems like the sort of product that would suddenly find itself a perfect fit for something. I can imagine myself working on some random project in the future and realising that it would be useful. It's the sort of thing that might sit in your toolbox for ages until one day you go "Aha! I have just the thing for that! Where did I put it?"

I wonder if it would be worth having a pool of useful components like this that members could request when working on a Project14 entry? Rather than trying for find a way to use it, just wait until it jumps out at you.

Fred27  "Jumps out at you" is my entire project plan!  I'd like to say that I subscribe to the "See a need. Fill a need." philosophy (Bigweld from the movie Robots) but it's more like just chasing the newest bright shiny thing.   It's my version of ADD - Adult Distractability Disorder.

Fred27 said:

I can't immediately think of anything that might require it

I'd say: any low power situation where losing the connection without physical damage is a better outcome than dragging the cables out of a device, bending connectors, breaking wires, letting a cabinet fall over.

edit: and in situations where you connect moveable things, like in a car diagnostics/inspection booth. Where someone can drive away and take the whole set-up with them.

Finding a part to "fill a need" is a process that could probably be scientifically studied. The process I go through varies but it is  something like:

• what do I imagine is the ideal part to fill this need?
• what do I think I have that comes closest to this ideal part? (I often cannot remember everything I have - so)
• rummage around several possible storage locations to see if I actually have something that I remember or something else that might fit the bill
• give up and order something
• suddenly realize I was looking in the wrong place and find something suitable
• when the now un-needed part comes in, squirrel it away somewhere where I am never going to forget it
• and then promptly forget all about it

For me "finding a use for a part" is a mysterious process that involves things like:

Thinking about each of the part's features or characteristics and trying to remember something that makes use of a similar feature. Sometimes some application will vaguely take shape and then it gets massaged by my preferences to morph into some attractive application. Sometimes while looking at all the angles, a new application pops into my mind, through some subconscious associative process. This knack can make you look brilliant, but it isn't easy to force it to happen. Sometimes it actually happens when I am doing something else but had posed the problem to myself earlier. Sometimes it even happens while I am asleep. It is all very mysterious.