[Open Manufacturing] oDesign Alfa amd liquidware's packaging format
Bryan Bishop
From the likes of Demetrio Siragusa (odesigncommunity.com) and Massimo
Menichinelli (openp2pdesign.org) is a open source hardware repository
site, odesigncommunity.com. Just wanted to let everyone know about it-
I found out about oDesign after Demetrio started following me on
twitter. I started to investigate some of the packages in the
repository, but as I looked closer and closer at the details, all of
the zip files are sporadically and randomly assembled. That is, you're
not really sure whether or not the same files are going to be in each
package, and if two people were to package the same thing, you'd get
wildly different information. So while it's nice to see the site, it
doesn't seem to implement anything akin to SKDB/unptnt.
Will products ever roam the web like MP3s?
http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/a8c95a266eb9b69a
todo list for skdb-related work
http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/e185e43b59db6b7d
If anything, this shows the urgency in discussing and coming up with
hardware packaging standards. There also seens to be an "open source
hardware app store" here:
http://www.liquidware.com/ (for electronics)
Interestingly enough, all liquidware.com zip files have the following
files: Components.txt, Illuminato.txt, Info.txt, License.txt,
Readme.txt, Url.txt. So that's at least a start. A rather poor one ..
why not include a typical BOM? Why not include the schematics, or
other metadata?
Okay, back to work.
MrEHQE
On 16 Feb, 17:16, Bryan Bishop <kanz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> From the likes of Demetrio Siragusa (odesigncommunity.com) and Massimo
> Menichinelli (openp2pdesign.org) is a open source hardware repository
> site, odesigncommunity.com. Just wanted to let everyone know about it-
> I found out about oDesign after Demetrio started following me on
> twitter. I started to investigate some of the packages in the
> repository, but as I looked closer and closer at the details, all of
> the zip files are sporadically and randomly assembled. That is, you're
> not really sure whether or not the same files are going to be in each
> package, and if two people were to package the same thing, you'd get
still in alfa, but the repository is alfabetical ordered.