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A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs

Posted by kdawson on from the admit-it-you-read-pin-ups dept.

Nicola Asuni writes to let us know about a new resource for hardware hackers: a wiki about pinouts — hardware interfaces of modern and obsolete hardware. "Created with the same MediaWiki software that was developed for the Wikipedia project, AllPinouts.org is a wiki that allows users to get and share information about hardware interfaces, including pinouts of ports, expansion slots, and other connectors of computers and different electronic devices (i.e. cellular phones, GPS, PDA, game consoles, etc.). All text is available under the GNU Free Documentation License and may be distributed or linked accordingly. The 'pinout' (or 'pin-out') of a connector identifies each individual pin, which is critical when creating, repairing or hacking cable assemblies and adapters."

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  1. Looks promising by atilla+filiz · · Score: 5, Informative

    pinouts.ru was the first place i look for pinouts. this wiki looks promising, as it has long lists of commercial gadgets.

    1. Re:Looks promising by tttonyyy · · Score: 5, Informative

      http://www.hardwarebook.info/ has been around for a very long time and has huge numbers of pinouts and cable diagrams.

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    2. Re:Looks promising by psergiu · · Score: 4, Informative

      Mod Parent Up

      Debian users can also apt-get install hwb

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  2. www.hardwarebook.info has been around... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...for about 10 years. (Yes, it moved to .info just recently.)

  3. Because Wikipedia is not ... by Norsefire · · Score: 3, Informative

    * an indiscriminate collection of information
    * an Instruction manual
    and everything must be backed up with reliable sources.
    There is also no way to format the information in a Wikipedia-esque fashion that makes it as easy to find like on this site (when it comes up back up).

  4. incorrect link by imrehg · · Score: 5, Informative

    It would well worth fixing the link... The article (and google) says www.allpinouts.org, while the link points to www.allpinouts.com... Anyway, it probably it got slashdotted without this already.

  5. Third time lucky by jdfox · · Score: 2, Informative

    (Facepalm) Yes, it is Coral Cached, and latest cached content is about a month old.

    And I'm just off to find some caffeine now. That is all, thank you.

  6. Re:/.ed by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 2, Informative

    Either the firewall I'm behind doesn't like HWB, or the storm has moved there too.

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  7. Wikia is better by Sxerks · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you are going to make a mediawiki site use Wikia.com, all of the extra stuff that "doesn't belong" on wikipedia ends up there.

    these are available:
    pinout.wikia.com
    pinouts.wikia.com
    allpinouts.wikia.com

    and any pagesyou have already made can be easily imported.

  8. Already been done . . . by wooferhound · · Score: 4, Informative

    > been hoping someone with some bandwidth to spare would be kind enough
    > to collect all of this information in one place

    I've been using the pinouts from these 2 websites for too many years
    http://www.hardwarebook.info/Category:Connector
    http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/Main_Page

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  9. old concept by teknosapien · · Score: 2, Informative

    already been done http://pinouts.ru/

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