I've embarked on a project to help document PCB's as much as I can.
This project will do several things:
1) Allow us to find the most common parts used across PCB's
2) Allow us to find the most uncommon parts used across PCB's
3) Help us find donor parts quickly or parts that can be used to test.
Here is what my plan is, and where I need your help!
I am going to start running OCR against the manuals for the games. I'll start with Williams games as those are my favorite and work from there.
If you have time to help, I need two things:
1) Additional people to start running OCR against the manuals for games and creating a spread sheet of the parts. I will write an import function for the web site so that the sheet's can be imported. You only need to OCR the specific pages of the manual that has the PCB parts listed on it. Some manuals this may not be possible with, so we should skip those for now and revisit how to handle them in the future.
In order to do this, we also need the PCB in the database. So you'll need to add the PCB with a picture to the database. The better the quality of the picture the better, but anything is better then nothing for now. We can always get better pictures later.
2) Need people to verify the information once it's put into the database. Need to verify part location, part type and other information related to that part.
I will attach a sample spreadsheet to this topic shortly.
For the Part Types, use the following numbers:
Unknown = 0
CPU = 1
RAM = 2
ROM = 3
EPROM = 4
IC = 5
CustomChip = 6
Component = 7
Other = 8
Hardware = 9
Socket = 10
Connector = 11
Even if you only do ONE PCB, that would be a great step! If you don't already have a contributor account on here, you can sign up
here.
Edited by user Saturday, December 13, 2014 12:10:58 AM(UTC)
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