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Awesome on the guerrilla BOMs! I was wondering more about how many orders have gone through your system and how many people have ordered PCBs and parts through

Awesome on the guerrilla BOMs! I was wondering more about how many orders have gone through your system and how many people have ordered PCBs and parts through you site. Do you know what those numbers roughly are? I see you have some kind of examples for how to organize projects in your README. Do you have some more formalized guidelines for recommended 'best practices' for organizing open hardware projects? Would you consider making one if you don't have it already? Interesting, looking around there's some people playing around with visual diffs [1] [2]. Maybe a good first step is to just have a multi-layer view of the image with different colors. Are you going to attend OHS in Boston this year? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CZEszO9xpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CZEszO9xpA [2] http://www.viewplot.com/info_files/vpl_faq/compare.html http://www.viewplot.com/info_files/vpl_faq/compare.html

kasbah 9y ago
Ah nice, hadn't seen those two. The first one I came across was [1] and I have been fascinated with the idea ever since. I kind of agree with Dave Vandenbout [2] though in that it might not scale. I kind of shifted my fascination towards using code to do PCB designs and giving talks about that [3]. Best practices, it's a good idea, but it is hard enough to get people to do the minimal thing that I came up with for Kitspace and I think only certain kinds of people will read a best practices guide. At the Global Open Science Hardware Gathering [4] we are trying to come up with more general best practices for open source hardware though and doing a more focused one for electronics would be worthwhile anyway. About attending OHS, not unless I can get some travel funding :( [1]: https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/improving-open-source-hardware-visual-diffs/ https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/improving-open-source-... [2]: http://www.xess.com/blog/schematics-really/ http://www.xess.com/blog/schematics-really/ [3]: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cad_pcb_code/ https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cad_pcb_code/ [4]: http://openhardware.science/gosh-manifesto/ http://openhardware.science/gosh-manifesto/

kasbah 9y ago

Ah nice, hadn't seen those two. The first one I came across was [1] and I have been fascinated with the idea ever since. I kind of agree with Dave Vandenbout [2] though in that it might not scale. I kind of shifted my fascination towards using code to do PCB designs and giving talks about that [3]. Best practices, it's a good idea, but it is hard enough to get people to do the minimal thing that I came up with for Kitspace and I think only certain kinds of people will read a best practices guide. At the Global Open Science Hardware Gathering [4] we are trying to come up with more general best practices for open source hardware though and doing a more focused one for electronics would be worthwhile anyway. About attending OHS, not unless I can get some travel funding :( [1]: https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/improving-open-source-hardware-visual-diffs/ https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/improving-open-source-... [2]: http://www.xess.com/blog/schematics-really/ http://www.xess.com/blog/schematics-really/ [3]: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cad_pcb_code/ https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/cad_pcb_code/ [4]: http://openhardware.science/gosh-manifesto/ http://openhardware.science/gosh-manifesto/