A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs 107
Nicola Asuni writes to let us know about a new resource for hardware hackers: a wiki about pinouts — hardware interfaces of modern and obsolete hardware. "Created with the same MediaWiki software that was developed for the Wikipedia project, AllPinouts.org is a wiki that allows users to get and share information about hardware interfaces, including pinouts of ports, expansion slots, and other connectors of computers and different electronic devices (i.e. cellular phones, GPS, PDA, game consoles, etc.). All text is available under the GNU Free Documentation License and may be distributed or linked accordingly. The 'pinout' (or 'pin-out') of a connector identifies each individual pin, which is critical when creating, repairing or hacking cable assemblies and adapters."
Looks promising (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Looks promising (Score:5, Informative)
www.hardwarebook.info has been around... (Score:3, Informative)
...for about 10 years. (Yes, it moved to .info just recently.)
Because Wikipedia is not ... (Score:4, Informative)
* an Instruction manual [wikipedia.org]
and everything must be backed up with reliable sources [wikipedia.org].
There is also no way to format the information in a Wikipedia-esque fashion that makes it as easy to find like on this site (when it comes up back up).
incorrect link (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Looks promising (Score:5, Informative)
Mod Parent Up
Debian users can also apt-get install hwb
Third time lucky (Score:3, Informative)
And I'm just off to find some caffeine now. That is all, thank you.
Re:/.ed (Score:3, Informative)
Either the firewall I'm behind doesn't like HWB, or the storm has moved there too.
Wikia is better (Score:2, Informative)
If you are going to make a mediawiki site use Wikia.com, all of the extra stuff that "doesn't belong" on wikipedia ends up there.
these are available:
pinout.wikia.com
pinouts.wikia.com
allpinouts.wikia.com
and any pagesyou have already made can be easily imported.
Already been done . . . (Score:5, Informative)
> to collect all of this information in one place
I've been using the pinouts from these 2 websites for too many years
http://www.hardwarebook.info/Category:Connector [hardwarebook.info]
http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/Main_Page [allpinouts.org]
old concept (Score:2, Informative)