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Black Phoenix:

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--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on March 14, 2023, 11:01:19 pm ---I want MCU development boards.

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You and a ton of others... Get the normal Lanyard or Ballpoint and be happy...

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The lanyard or pen is going into a desk drawer in a few days, never to be seen again, but a dev board might result in a design win for the MCU vendor, and that could be worth a lot of money. Even if only one dev board that's given away in a thousand results in business for the company, it's probably worth it.

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You didn't understood what I written. Most companies will not give a Dev Board or anything close to that.

A Devboard and all their related components is way more expensive than a lanyard or a ballpoint pen, and the bean counters and marketing department know that, so what think you think they will choose when promotion swag is requested by upper management? Not only that but as a company how you know that the Devboard you are giving someone who visits your boot is guaranteed to turn into a future business exchange and not a free swag collecting guy (yes they exist, people who only go to fairs to collect swag)?

If you want a Devboard, most companies sell you one for a fee in their website, as ST or TI. Renesas is the only one I know who send free Devboards sometimes (I got one some years ago) but probably others exist.

I remember a video from Dave in a Electronics Fair where a vendor gave him a Wera Precision Screwdriver with their company branding. That's the 1% of most companies.

That's why I reply as if I was a bean counter because it is exactly the reply most will give.

For me a 15cm metal ruler or a PCB ruler with different size of common components and packages would be a great thing since it gets used for years. A free sample book also is a good swag.

But the most common is lanyards, pens or catalogues.
james_s:
Yeah I've never seen a dev board or anything like that given out as tradeshow swag. Typically stuff that is given out in volume needs to be under $1ea in cost, maybe a few dollars for something like a shirt that they give out a lot of but not as freely as something like a pen or ruler. More expensive items could be given out as prizes to a handful of people chosen in a drawing, or sold at a discounted price at the booth. It's unrealistic to expect expensive items to be given out in large numbers, thousands of people will line up to grab a free dev board and probably 90% of them will end up on a shelf somewhere or flogged on ebay.
coppercone2:
I find it amusing that they deal with the trade show, the lavish meals for the staff, the first class travel, pre meetings, meetings, post meetings, work hours lost, alcohol etc, then split hairs over a barrel of crap ;D

Its like you replaced the first satellite put in orbit with a 'we were here' paper billboard. Just unfurl some soviet pop art in space rather then sputnik
Gribo:
Keysight gave a ruler with RF PCB filters and other nice things (PCB antennas etc). I won't take any USB dongle, the chance of getting malware is too high.
james_s:

--- Quote from: Gribo on March 16, 2023, 03:26:17 pm ---Keysight gave a ruler with RF PCB filters and other nice things (PCB antennas etc). I won't take any USB dongle, the chance of getting malware is too high.

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I would think the chance of something from a major company containing malware is pretty slim. These days all of the computers I use regularly are on Linux which so far doesn't have much malware targeted at it either.
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