e-Network Community launches festive season celebrations to share gift ideas

Community members can participate in the element14 festival celebrations to win prizes and get maker and engineer gift ideas

Shanghai, China, December 17, 2021 – Farnell element14, a global distributor of electronic components and solutions under Avnet, has launched the annual Maker and Electronic Engineer Wishlist event through its interactive community to offer engineers good wishes for the holidays. In addition to creative holiday gifts, Farnell element14 will also launch a number of celebration activities, including the Mysterious Christmas Gift Event, the Project14 Holiday Theme Design Challenge, and Farnell element14 Presents Holiday Video Special. Whether it is purchased according to the wish list, won through the gift event, or designed by yourself, Farnell element14 hopes that every maker and engineer can receive the holiday gift as they wish.

The 2021 Holiday Gift Guide includes all the best things that electronics engineers love, including the Maker Gift List and the Electronics Engineer Gift List. The element14 annual gift guide is specially prepared for the element14 community members and lists all kinds of good things that community members love, including: 

Makers’ selected gifts:

Handheld multimeter: A multimeter is an essential tool for all makers, and a handheld digital multimeter can bring great convenience to their electronic project design.

Voltage Tester: This small probe can easily detect the voltage across various components, making it a great gift for makers who love to tinker with things. Buy now for a holiday surprise price.

Diagonal cutting pliers: For makers who often cut wires, diagonal cutting pliers are the perfect gift. Currently, element14 offers a variety of high-quality diagonal cutting pliers in the Holly Jolly workbench promotion, and you can enjoy a discount when you buy them now.

Electronic Engineers' Picks:

Resistance Decade Box: Engineers can use a resistance decade box to simulate different resistive loads to test circuits.

Anti-static Tool Box: Since electrical engineers’ tools can cause electrostatic discharge, this tool box helps reduce that risk.  

Clamp Meter: Engineers measure current by clamping the hinged jaws of a clamp multimeter onto a wire.

In addition to carefully recommending dozens of holiday gifts, element11 also held two gift giving events, where participants have the opportunity to win exquisite prizes. The gift giving events include:

Mystery Christmas Gift Campaign – The campaign solicits blog posts from element14 community members, asking them to describe in detail the perfect gift for a maker or engineer, and the recommended gift must be a product sold by element14 for less than $50. element14 will select the 20 best blog posts, and the winner will receive a tool product recommended by other blog posts. The deadline for submission of blog posts is January 1, 2022.

Project14 Gift DIY Challenge – This edition of the Project14 Design Challenge encourages element14 community members to make their own gifts. For a chance to win a free Arduino or Raspberry Pi for their project, element14 community members who submit their holiday project design ideas by January 14, 2022 will have the chance to win a free Arduino or Raspberry Pi for their project design. The most popular design will be the Grand Prize winner, who will receive a tool kit valued at approximately $500, including a handheld oscilloscope, USB soldering iron, bench power supply, wire strippers, and a shopping voucher valued at $400, as well as a $100 shopping voucher to give to a fellow community member to support their project development. Three first prizes will also be selected, with prizes of a tool kit valued at approximately $300 and a shopping voucher valued at $200, as well as a $100 shopping voucher to give to a fellow community member to support their project development.

In addition, the element14 Presents series also launched a festive video special - Demonstration of magnetic fields using Helmholtz coils on a crystal ball. Click here to watch. 

The element11 community is the world's first professional community created specifically for engineers, with more than 800,000 engineers, makers and designers as members. To view the recommended holiday gifts for makers and engineers and participate in the gift-giving event, please visit element11.