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ima stp editn this site but ima tel yuh like this . it sucks it telles me nothin about what i wanna hear about open circuits it just wasted my time. do yuh know what im sayn.help me get this horrible website off of the internet by leading a protest.see the information below for more details
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Time : December 19, 2009
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Location : Beatties Ford Library
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Street;Road : Beatties Ford
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More Info : The Library is chariting the protest.
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== [[Components]] ==
 
== [[Components]] ==

Revision as of 11:45, 9 December 2009

Open Circuits is a wiki for sharing open source electronics knowledge, schematics, board layouts, ports and parts libraries. This include open hardware Music Players, atomic microscopes, PC, PDA and mobile phones, and batteries. Please help us to build this resource by submitting your component descriptions, projects, techniques, and PCB footprints.


Projects and Ideas

Descriptions, instructions, board layouts, and other documentation for electronics

ima stp editn this site but ima tel yuh like this . it sucks it telles me nothin about what i wanna hear about open circuits it just wasted my time. do yuh know what im sayn.help me get this horrible website off of the internet by leading a protest.see the information below for more details

Time : December 19, 2009

Location : Beatties Ford Library

Street;Road : Beatties Ford

More Info : The Library is chariting the protest.

Quote : Be There OR Be Square

Components

Lists of components, where to purchase them, how to use them. For many components there are links to projects using that particular component, this is especially true for microcontrollers, for example follow the links down to PIC microcontrollers and you will find many project links as well as tutorials.

Basic Circuits and Circuit Building Blocks

Circuits you will use over and over.

== Techniques == How to do things.


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Tutorials

How to understand and plan what you are doing. These are for general theory, more specific information is linked to its topic.

PCB Footprints

Don't reinvent the wheel. Known working open PCB footprints for various components.

Got A Blog, Wiki or Website?

Link to it on the Got A Blog, Wiki or Website? or WikiNode page.

Got a Technical Question?

Perhaps it will be answered, perhaps not. Google for it first in the spirt of RTFM. Please do not ask us to do a school project for you.


Meta Open Source

Not projects or information on projects, but stuff about the open source movement ( mostly hardware ) itself.

Open Hardware Initiatives

The Open Source Movement, typically covers Open Hardware, Open Firmware, and Open Software.

Open Hardware is the hardware equivalent of the Open Source Software movement originally developed by GNU/Linux and the Free Software Foundation.

The Open Firmware movement provides firmware (i.e.: micro-code specifically related to the subcoding of hardware devices) which you may also know as soft-IP or FPGA coding see Open Cores for more details.

Excellent examples of Open Hardware projects range from projects at OpenCircuits to Tiny Embedded Ethernet Devices and Advanced & Intelligent Camera Designs which provide solid-state camera and FPGA assisted hardware designs. A solid overview of projects can also be found at Open Innovation Projects.

Licenses

The most common "open hardware" licenses are the Creative Commons Licenses and the GNU General Public License. The GNU people wrote the the GPL FAQ to deal with common questions and misunderstandings of the GPL. The GNU people go on to say

"We encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If this seems surprising to you, please read on." -- GNU: "Selling Free Software"

For example, Linksys makes money selling (among other things) their Linksys WRT54G series routers, which use Linux under the GPL license.

To understand what your entitlements and responsbilities are under the applicable licence(s); each hardware, firmware and/or software peice you have either copied, modified, developed using tools provided or if you intend distributing your development, you MUST read each and every licence, and be specifically aware that you may not mix such licence(s) together unless they can co-exist under one umbrella licence. For example you may modify, copy, enhance and distribute parts your project which are all under the same licence e.g.: GNU General Public or Open Circuits:Copyrights.

Help Us Make Open Circuits Better

What are we:

Looks like we are defining this by way of who contributes and what. I ( russ_hensel ) am a new member so may or may not have it right. This is what I think:

  • An introduction to Electronic theory, suitable for the hobbyist.
  • Guide to locating and using components and tools.
  • Details on how to build various projects.
  • Building some sense of community among builders.

There are two means of carrying this out:

  • Write material for the site or
  • Link to material you may have written or have located on the web. There is so much stuff on the web that lets not write it here unless it is at least somewhat unique.

What do you think, discuss it here if very general, else on the discussion page ( link at top of page ).

See also: