Avnet's online engineering community has over one million users

Today's electronic engineers are facing unprecedented challenges: new technologies emerge in an endless stream, while the channels for disseminating information about these new technologies are becoming increasingly diverse, and the obstacles to quickly acquiring this new knowledge have not been eliminated.

However, the good news is that with the development of online social channels, it has become possible to share technical resources and development experience through online communities. Online technical communities have become an important communication and collaboration platform for electronic engineers to obtain the latest technical information and solve design and development problems.

Not long ago, Avnet announced that the number of registered users of its global online technology community has exceeded 1 million!

Let's take a look at Avnet's report card:

Yes, it was these two communities that surprised us:

• element14.com: An online technical discussion community. As long as you ask a question, technical experts from all over the world will answer it to help you deal with every challenge you encounter in your work.

• Hackster.io: An online project development community where developers can quickly master the knowledge and skills required for hardware design and software programming through real design projects.

It is particularly worth mentioning that, unlike some localized online communities, the 1 million users of Avnet Online Technology Community come from more than 200 countries and regions around the world, helping you keep pace with the pulse of global technology development at all times and not fall behind.

Why are element14.com and Hackster.io the favorites of electronic engineers around the world? First of all, the richness of their resources makes people fall in love at first sight. Take element14.com as an example. At present, the content shared by users in the community has reached nearly 5 million pages, with more than 50,000 technical resources, and the amount of technical information contained is equivalent to more than 1,300 times the amount of the complete set of "Harry Potter"! No wonder the following netizen "fell in love with it at first sight!",

In addition to the abundance of resources, the fact that the information is “new” enough is also an important reason why people linger. From the picture below, we can see which technology hotspots engineers in the Avnet online technology community are most concerned about. Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, robots, blockchain...are there any topics that can be “hot searched”?

In addition, let’s take a look at the most popular development projects in Hackster.io. These projects are almost all “testing grounds” for new technologies, where engineers can try various possibilities and push new technologies to new heights!

The last important reason that can make engineers "turn to fans" is the support of Avnet's entire ecological resources for online technology communities. In fact, since Avnet acquired element14.com and Hackster.io in 2016, the development of the two online technology communities has entered the fast lane, and the annual growth rate of registered users in the community has exceeded 48%.

Dianne Kibbey, global head of community and social media at element14, said that with the support of the Avnet ecosystem, they can easily access more technical resources, and element14's current user activity is more active than ever before.

Adam Benzion, co-founder and CEO of Hackster.io, also believes that with the support of the Avnet ecosystem, Hackster.io can reach more engineers in more places and provide them with better learning tools for hardware design. "We are excited to see that our users are pursuing emerging technology fields such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, FPGA, etc., and their design and development skills are constantly improving."

How powerful is Avnet's ecosystem, and why are engineers flocking to it? Let's take a look at the picture below - there are currently more than 120 active technology partners in the Avnet community. Needless to say, these names themselves are very convincing.

Commenting on the success of element14.com and Hackster.io, Bill Amelio, CEO of Avnet, said: “The most exciting thing is that our online community is working on real designs with the latest products. As users learn the knowledge and skills they need from real project examples, industry experts and collaboration, they can ensure that their design ideas find the right path from prototype to mass production.”

Turning today's ideas into tomorrow's technology - in this "Reach Further" process, Avnet's online technical community is continuing to accelerate its pace! Are you willing to join the 1 million+ electronic engineers around the world? Avnet has already extended an invitation to you - come together and become one of the next "one million"!

To get more detailed information about Avnet Online Technical Community, you can:

1. Follow the "Avnet" WeChat public account;

2. Send the message "1 million" to the official account;

3. The official account will automatically push detailed introductions about Avnet Online Technology Community to you.