A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs 107
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from the admit-it-you-read-pin-ups dept.
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."
Yay! (Score:3, Insightful)
About time. I've been hoping someone with some bandwidth to spare would be kind enough to collect all of this information in one place for us hackers. We appreciate it! Thanks!
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Re:A couple of points (pins!?) (Score:3, Insightful)
They might be other sites around, but I've had difficulty in the past finding pinouts, let alone ones that were correct. Most I found tended to be fairly inconsistent in the way things were laid out. If it proves to be as good a resource as wikipedia it's a step in the right direction IMO.
Re:A couple of points (pins!?) (Score:5, Insightful)
The real strength of something like this (versus various otherwise-great resources such as pinouts.ru [pinouts.ru] is that once you've accomplished the difficult task of locating, implementing, and verifying a pinout, you can just go ahead and post your results so that the rest of the world doesn't have to duplicate your effort.
Please don't treat wikis as just a resource to be consumed. Don't assume that someone, somewhere, is tending the light at the end of the tunnel. Contribute what you learn.
Re:Why not put this Wikipedia? (Score:2, Insightful)
I agree, but ... the deletionists would go ballistic and start screaming "its unencyclopedic".
Apart from that, wikipedia probably would not accept a reverse engineered pinout, on the basis of lack of sources.
Re:Yay! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Yay! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:/.ed (Score:2, Insightful)
No, but as John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory shows, and is embodied by places such as 4chan: Anonymous + Audience = Fuckwad. Anonymous edits of a Wiki are a terrible idea, because you will get vandalism. If you can't be bothered to jump the (very low) bar, then it's likely your contribution wouldn't be that great in any case.
They can register an account with untraceable details quite easily.