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Cool Tools Bench Awards 2018

Hello Community Members and happy June.

 

It is officially summertime here at the element14 offices, which is enough of a reason to celebrate but as we batted around some ideas we thought - why don't we involve the Community in some fun?  We have already been asking you about your favorite tools for our RoadTest reviews and now we'd like to present to you the Cool Tools Bench Awards!

 

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Starting today and going through the entire month of June, we want you to submit photos and/or videos of your own bench or workspace for other Community members to see.  Then in the month of July we'll pick out some winners every week and send them some of our favorite Cool Tools chosen by us and other Community members like the ones below:

 

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Duratool PL 501 Cutter

Klein Tools 4-1 Screwdriver

Duratool PC Maintenance Tool KitDuratool Soldering Station
Milwaukee Bit SetDuratool Wire Stripper

 

We will have ten (10)  winners total for the following categories:

 

•      Where’s my Cat? (messiest bench)

•       Tony Stark’s Dream Bench (state of the art bench)

•      Fire Hazard Award (Worst cable management)

•       Pepped to the Post Award (Best coffee mug)

•      Totally Screwed Award (Worst organisation of screws, nuts and bolts)

•      Bat Cave Award (Award for wide range of tools)

•       Mom Would Be Proud (Neatest bench)

•       Man Cave Bench (Best use of personal space for a bench)

•      Jury Rigged Award (Most improvised or makeshift repair or bench)

•       Time Machine Award (Best piece of Retro Tech on display)

 

Along with the above, we'll also have a special “In Their Element" award (best representation and love of element14)

 

Let's have some fun with this and show us the benches and workspaces where all of your amazing projects come to life!

 

Comment with your photo/videos on this post through June 30th.

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  • Wow, some of the workspaces here put mine to shame. Well, first off, as a female maker I can assure your wives that we, like our male counterparts, are sometimes just as messy. It all depends on the stages of development in a project :D

     

    Thing is, despite having a multiple collection of toolkits, equipment and electronics laying about at home and work, I honestly don't have a decent workspace. It's because of space limits... plus the family doesn't really appreciate having my weird stuff just laying about. So I have to pack them in bags (organized chaos more like it). At work, my co workers share the space and I wouldn't say that the workbench over there speaks much to me.

     

    So I found myself another solution: invest in a makerspace and open it up to other makers. And that's exactly what I did! There is a makerspace called Lamba Labs Beirut Hackerspace that was in need of equipment and tools, so I adopted it as my own and invested in the space itself. I can now honestly say that this is the space that speaks to me best, and the fact that I share it with other like minded people to discover their inner maker makes it all sweeter. So without further ado, here's Lamba Labs in a nutshell:

     

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    Lamba Lab's light bulb shaped logo sits proudly at our bench:

     

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    The legendary mess of a state space switch which notifies our followers and members when the makerspace is open:

     

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    Sometimes the workspace is tidy....

     

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    Other times, not so much...

     

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    Either way, I wouldn't want to work anywhere else. Hopefully one day I can manage to get the space all the tools we need. Hope you like it!!

  • in reply to alaa_salam

    Alaa, the idea of shered place andbtoiks is really great. And I tried to do something similar in Denia, Spain, for some months but the concept was not got well. I hope I can try again now in Belgium.

     

    Enrico

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