"The gaming community is known for being innovative and collaborative, " said Kevin Yapp, chief marketing officer, Premier Farnell.

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"The element14 community has more than 100, 000 members who collaborate on innovative design concepts, inspiring many creative and useful projects, " said Kevin Yapp, chief of strategy and marketing, Premier Farnell.

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The community recently unveiled its element14 knode, a unique automated platform that enables engineers to quickly research, design, develop and prototype in a single, intelligent environment. element14 is an innovative offering from Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), FTSE 250, a leader in multi-channel electronics distribution trading throughout Europe (Farnell), the Americas (Newark) and Asia Pacific (element14).

ENGADGET: Ben Heck splits and condenses a pair of Xbox 360 controllers for the disabled