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Hi Paul,

I've been exploring solderpad and really like it. I teach a lot and am 
considering using solderpad for class projects.

One suggestion that occurred to me is to review the projects every so 
often and purge the ones that are empty. Some (including myself) have 
made test projects to see how it works and then abandoned them.

Thanks for doing this!

Michael

On 11/25/2011 12:55 AM, Paul Downey wrote:
> Hello, I'm psd, and am working with Andrew Back (9600) on SolderPad.
>
>> true. how does that compare to solderpad? i spent some time searching and
>> found no circuits using op-amps. the lack of a search box on solderpad
>> really sucks, but they identify this as a missing feature.
>> i think the bigger difference is that upverter seems to require you to
>> create or  import  your circuit in their capture tool, while solderpad lets
>> you use whatever schematic capture tool you want and then to upload the
>> files. actually the only examples i looked at all seem to be made in eagle,
>> but i could find nothing that said you have to use eagle.
>> am i correct in my assessment?
>
> Search is currently a missing feature, but I'd suggest digging into
> some of the "featured" projects randomly put on the home page, and
> digging into the tags for tools, etc, e.g.:
>
>      http://solderpad.com/tags/orcad
>      http://solderpad.com/tags/altium
>      http://solderpad.com/tags/eagle
>      http://solderpad.com/tags/geda
>      http://solderpad.com/tags/fritzing
>
> Possibly of interest to London hackspacers are Ken Boak's Nanode projects:
>
>      http://solderpad.com/monsonite/
>
> Al Wood and the Thames Valley RepRap groups' boards:
>
>      http://solderpad.com/folknology/
>
> The Open Energy Monitor projects:
>
>      http://solderpad.com/openenergymon/
>
> And a variety of hack boards such as Tautic:
>
>      http://solderpad.com/tautic/
>
> JeeLabs:
>
>      http://solderpad.com/jcw/
>
> The tiny XuLA FPGA board:
>
>      http://solderpad.com/xesscorp/xula/
>
> and we're particular fans of running Occam on the Arduio:
>
>       http://blog.solderpad.com/post/12123858445/the-concurrency-cc-board
>
> I'm weary of comparing the two sites since they're both under active
> development, but thus far I think it's far to say Upverter's focus has
> been on building an in-browser schematic editor whereas SolderPad's is
> to present schematics, boards and bills of materials from files
> generated by existing EDA tools, stored in git.
>
> The tour page and video endeavours to explain SolderPad's approach:
>
>      http://solderpad.com/tour
>
> And here's a short video introducing Upverter:
>
>      http://www.demo.com/alumni/demo2011fall/250545.html
>
> Andrew and I have been to the London Hackspace a few times and under
> the banner of http://oshug.org but I'll make a point of showing my
> face more often, and of course we're both happy to talk about ideas /
> issues / whatever: he...@solderpad.com
>
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