Computing stuff tied to the physical world

Documentation conventions

In Hardware on Oct 19, 2009 at 00:01

With so many plugs and boards (f)lying around here these days, I’m trying to stick to a couple of tagging and documentation conventions.

First and most important one, is that each package has a unique ID which refers to a web page:

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Even each board has such an ID:

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(this plug is now called an “RTC Plug”, btw)

When you type in the URL, you’ll be redirected to its main documentation page – for example:

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Did I mention that everything on this site is open source, software and hardware? Well, as you can see above, all the design files are freely available. Enjoy… just don’t do anything with ’em your mother wouldn’t approve of.

The other way to get to these documentation pages is via the “DOCS” link at the top of all the weblog pages. It points to an index of all available documentation pages.

As you can see, all product IDs are two letters plus a version number from 1 to 9. URLs of the form http://JeeLabs.org/ + lowercase-letter + lowercase-letter + digit always redirect to the latest documentation page, regardless of the structure of this site.

I’ll let you know when I run out of all the 6084 codes :)