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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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  • Okay - this series of workspace images should be good for a chuckle...

    First up is my computing office - note all the project boxes on either side of the desk - these are some of my current projects in progress. There is another table to the right with another computer and some tablets - and it is even messier. The table at the lower left has a 3D printer on it. The laser printer at the upper right has a robot on it. (a project in its early stages)

    The robot is looking at my IoT on Wheels project. My Hack like Heck project is languishing in the box under the lamp. The coffee mug full of tools has a picture of a Tardis on it that becomes invisible when a hot drink is in the mug.

    You cannot see it but there is a Tektronix oscilloscope hiding behind the right monitor - pulled out when needed.

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    Next up are some random quasi inactive project boxes. I had to start adding labels so I could at least have a clue what is in each box.

    image

    Then we come to my main electronics build area. It is most definitely messy especially in this picture, but it is organized to keep everything within easy reach. There is just enough room to squeeze into the workspace.

    There is an awful lot of stuff in this picture, some of it might even be recognizable. The box on the left of the bench is full of SMT resistors on tape. It may not be obvious but each resistor value has a specific x-y coordinate slot. For example one column would have 1,10,100,1K, 10K, 100K,1M, 10M and one row would have 10, 12, 15, 18, 22, 27, 33, 47, 56, 68, 82, etc.

    Can you spot the Heathkit vacuum tube voltmeter? Or the CRT monitor? There are more parts cabinets and project boxes and another computer under the camera and to the right that are not in the picture.

    It would appear some usurper has commandeered my task chair.

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    Finally here is my studio bench with flood lights on. Note the double stack of active project boxes on the left.

    I put on the black Ben Heck T-shirt (currently on the task chair) when I need to prevent my reflection from showing up on one of the screens I am video recording.

    That is my original element14 project (the Henrietta Project) still running in the upper right hand corner.

    image

    Not shown is my mechanical work area - there is no unobstructed vantage point to take a decent picture at the moment.

    There were no minions used in the making of this blog, however Sparky made an appearance, as did the Purple Panic Button and my Safe & Sound project and somehow even 7 of 9 ended up on set. She wasn't supposed to be in  the shot but when I realized the camera has captured her in the periphery, I decided not to crop her out.

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  • Okay - this series of workspace images should be good for a chuckle...

    First up is my computing office - note all the project boxes on either side of the desk - these are some of my current projects in progress. There is another table to the right with another computer and some tablets - and it is even messier. The table at the lower left has a 3D printer on it. The laser printer at the upper right has a robot on it. (a project in its early stages)

    The robot is looking at my IoT on Wheels project. My Hack like Heck project is languishing in the box under the lamp. The coffee mug full of tools has a picture of a Tardis on it that becomes invisible when a hot drink is in the mug.

    You cannot see it but there is a Tektronix oscilloscope hiding behind the right monitor - pulled out when needed.

    image

    Next up are some random quasi inactive project boxes. I had to start adding labels so I could at least have a clue what is in each box.

    image

    Then we come to my main electronics build area. It is most definitely messy especially in this picture, but it is organized to keep everything within easy reach. There is just enough room to squeeze into the workspace.

    There is an awful lot of stuff in this picture, some of it might even be recognizable. The box on the left of the bench is full of SMT resistors on tape. It may not be obvious but each resistor value has a specific x-y coordinate slot. For example one column would have 1,10,100,1K, 10K, 100K,1M, 10M and one row would have 10, 12, 15, 18, 22, 27, 33, 47, 56, 68, 82, etc.

    Can you spot the Heathkit vacuum tube voltmeter? Or the CRT monitor? There are more parts cabinets and project boxes and another computer under the camera and to the right that are not in the picture.

    It would appear some usurper has commandeered my task chair.

    image

    Finally here is my studio bench with flood lights on. Note the double stack of active project boxes on the left.

    I put on the black Ben Heck T-shirt (currently on the task chair) when I need to prevent my reflection from showing up on one of the screens I am video recording.

    That is my original element14 project (the Henrietta Project) still running in the upper right hand corner.

    image

    Not shown is my mechanical work area - there is no unobstructed vantage point to take a decent picture at the moment.

    There were no minions used in the making of this blog, however Sparky made an appearance, as did the Purple Panic Button and my Safe & Sound project and somehow even 7 of 9 ended up on set. She wasn't supposed to be in  the shot but when I realized the camera has captured her in the periphery, I decided not to crop her out.

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