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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. Yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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!

    Captcha: mischief

    1. Re:Yay! by Spad · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...someone with some bandwidth to spare...

      Not any more, it would appear...

    2. Re:Yay! by morghanphoenix · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Nope, just the front page. How many people click through past that anyway? Probably less than usually RTFA, so there should be no problem, yes?

    3. Re:Yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yeah, sure, then they can spend the rest of their time fighting asshats and idiots who keep trying to make incorrect changes, ask for citations on stuff that doesn't fucking need one and attempts to get the articles deleted as "Not notable". I'm sure that'd be fun.

  2. 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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  3. Re:/.ed by Greger47 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    You can find plenty of pinouts on http://www.hardwarebook.info/ while you wait for the storm to settle.

    /greger

  4. Re:A couple of points (pins!?) by adolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  5. Unreachable.... by tokyoahead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ethernet plug not properly wired?

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

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

  7. 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).

  8. Re:Why not put this Wikipedia? by Another,+completely · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  9. 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.

  10. Serial cable pinouts by worip · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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  11. 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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