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A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs
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."
About time. I've been hoping someone with some bandwidth to spare would be kind enough to collect all of this information in one place for us hackers. We appreciate it! Thanks!
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pinouts.ru was the first place i look for pinouts. this wiki looks promising, as it has long lists of commercial gadgets.
They might be other sites around, but I've had difficulty in the past finding pinouts, let alone ones that were correct. Most I found tended to be fairly inconsistent in the way things were laid out. If it proves to be as good a resource as wikipedia it's a step in the right direction IMO.
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Damn, my RAM is full of cats. MEOW!!
/greger
The real strength of something like this (versus various otherwise-great resources such as pinouts.ru is that once you've accomplished the difficult task of locating, implementing, and verifying a pinout, you can just go ahead and post your results so that the rest of the world doesn't have to duplicate your effort.
Please don't treat wikis as just a resource to be consumed. Don't assume that someone, somewhere, is tending the light at the end of the tunnel. Contribute what you learn.
Kid-proof tablet..
Ethernet plug not properly wired?
no sig
...for about 10 years. (Yes, it moved to .info just recently.)
I agree, but ... the deletionists would go ballistic and start screaming "its unencyclopedic".
Apart from that, wikipedia probably would not accept a reverse engineered pinout, on the basis of lack of sources.
* 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).
That's one reason writing content for the internet is more fun than writing it for a company: you don't have to argue about whether it's a good idea. You put it out there, you tell a few people about it, and it either works or it doesn't. If the Wikipedia content works out to be more complete and/or reliable, then I guess allpinouts.com won't last long; if people find it easier to locate the pinout for their vintage graphics tablet, or contributors find less hassle in uploading information, then it will probably become a trusted resource.
They do need to address scalability though. Still /.ed.
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.
I agree, but ... the deletionists would go ballistic and start screaming "its unencyclopedic".
There are far worse unencyclopedic things in Wikipedia, e.g. this.
No matter how many wiki's, handbooks, websites, etc. there are, chances are that I will get the DTE/DCE thing wrong! Probably the most confusing pinout scheme ever invented... Getting your serial cable right first time, requires triple high bio-rhythms and planetary alignmnent!
A picture is worth exactly 1024 words.
No, but as John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory shows, and is embodied by places such as 4chan: Anonymous + Audience = Fuckwad. Anonymous edits of a Wiki are a terrible idea, because you will get vandalism. If you can't be bothered to jump the (very low) bar, then it's likely your contribution wouldn't be that great in any case.
They can register an account with untraceable details quite easily.
(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.
Either the firewall I'm behind doesn't like HWB, or the storm has moved there too.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
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.
> 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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"Wikia.com" for all the stuff you can't put on Wikipedia. - not an advert for them it's just true.
already been done http://pinouts.ru/
no matter how good it is, it is human nature always wants to make things better