Re:Scribd for Electronics Schematics
by benjamind on Thursday July 28, 2011 @06:07PM
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I'm glad someone put this up here, after the press we've had the last couple of days I think I need advice from all you guys on how to manage this.
Since Make posted about it on Saturday we've had over 45k unique views, and over a thousand people have signed up. I'm the only developer on this and am struggling to keep up with everything that's going on. In a few days when all the noise dies down I'm going to have to do a post-mortem, and I think then I'll really be looking for advise from people here on how to proceed on such a large project alone without funding.
@eugenejen - I'd love to do circuit simulation with it, but that is all a bit beyond me mathematically though I'm sure there are good resources out there to work from. We're definitely aiming to do meta tags, and hopefully since we parse the schematics into XML documents we can search within schematics as well for components.
Re:Scribd for Electronics Schematics
by eugenejen on Thursday July 28, 2011 @07:35PM
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Hi, thanks for your comment.
To be able to simulate circuits, I guess we need to add those Verilog/VHDL descriptions for digital circuits and I guess to implement that feature alone is a very overwhelming task.
I think implementing a tagging system is a very good start. And probably build a community of users that can give feedback on circuits will be very cool features for users.
I am glad to see you guys working on this. Wish you guys the best.
Re:Scribd for Electronics Schematics
by eugenejen on Thursday July 28, 2011 @05:55PM
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This is cool. I put a similar idea into my idea book for a while after I found current electronic circuits sites still work like 10 years ago. I like the idea to use HTML 5 Canvas to render schematics.
I guess other cool features in the long run can be
1. Integrate simulators so circuits can be tested.
2. Meta tags for search circuits based on purposes, types, components.
Since Make posted about it on Saturday we've had over 45k unique views, and over a thousand people have signed up. I'm the only developer on this and am struggling to keep up with everything that's going on. In a few days when all the noise dies down I'm going to have to do a post-mortem, and I think then I'll really be looking for advise from people here on how to proceed on such a large project alone without funding.
@eugenejen - I'd love to do circuit simulation with it, but that is all a bit beyond me mathematically though I'm sure there are good resources out there to work from. We're definitely aiming to do meta tags, and hopefully since we parse the schematics into XML documents we can search within schematics as well for components.
To be able to simulate circuits, I guess we need to add those Verilog/VHDL descriptions for digital circuits and I guess to implement that feature alone is a very overwhelming task.
I think implementing a tagging system is a very good start. And probably build a community of users that can give feedback on circuits will be very cool features for users.
I am glad to see you guys working on this. Wish you guys the best.
I guess other cool features in the long run can be 1. Integrate simulators so circuits can be tested. 2. Meta tags for search circuits based on purposes, types, components.