New Circuit Sharing Website

[johnnyfp]

Hi,

I've put together a new website which allows you to submit and showcase your circuits and PCB designs.

The website is called www.knickknack.co.nz.

This site is to complement forums like this on and to allow users to easily share their  projects and have improvements made to them among other things.

Check it out and Tell me what you think of it.

Cheers

Steve

[snipersquad100]

Not much in there is it.

[smashedProton]

Needs more membership to really take off

[johnnyfp]

Well I've got to start somewhere. And what better place than to announce it here?

[free_electron]

yay another site full of spaghettiwired schematics... can we PLEASE try to draw schematics that are readable , logically partitioned and are understandable ? is it really that hard to make a custom symbol ?

[Rerouter]

another suggestion... probably state somewhere which software package created the schematic for the download....

[johnnyfp]

I cant be held responsible to what the schematic uploaded by users will look like. Ok in this instance they where my designs, and yes they are a little messy. And the more I put up the more Ill get into the habbit of making readable designs.
I will wait for others to hopefully upload their better designs and take note of them and us that new found knowledge to better my designs.

Great idea about the software version Rerouter ill add it to the suggestion for improvement list on the site and look at implementing it.

[johnnyfp]

Ok Rerouter. I've added CAD Software version to the edit and add circuit pages for a user to select or enter a CAD.

I'm just a bit concerned that no one has submitted a Circuit to show off to the world. Have I created something that is of no use to anyone? Does it need improvement? If so what?

Thanks again

Steve

[Rerouter]

my own circuits are mainly pcb express as until recently i was just printing and etching so likely would not suit the site, however another improvement i notice, your schematic images are very blurry,

if i ever get my ad9850 function gen made up i'll upload the kicad files,

[johnnyfp]

It's all about ease of sharing, and improving your design with other people.

That way they can help with your design and add too it if needed. As for PCB Express, I used them once, but the cost and length of time to ship to NZ just put me off. How's it to Aus? Also have they improved their inbuilt tool to be less buggy? (I was playing with it a very long time ago so things may have changed).

As for the Blurry images, I'll see what I can do, I know for the PCB I've reached the limit of what Gerbv can generate, but the PDF is being converted by Imagik so may have some leeway.
 I was just adding a convenience to create a top page only image of the PDF, should I try and embed a PDF viewer into the popup window? Or just make it so that if you click on the PDF image, the actual PDF opens? I don't want to be the cause of unnecessary bandwidth usage (Some PDF's can be quite big).

Cheers

Steve

[johnnyfp]

This is great stuff.

I've updated it so that the PDF are now generated at 300dpi but again only the first page and made it so that the full image is uploaded to the popup box for you to expand to a supper high resolution.

Hope it looks less blurry.

So now that you can see all my Circuits, Any advice on their layouts or format? How can I improve my formatting designs? Put more on one page vs putting loads of pages.

free_electron didn't like my spaghetti wiring, to me it seemed OK, any better examples?

Steve

[Rerouter]

i'll chip in,

on the can remote controller, your schematic is filled with plenty of junctions that serve no purpose (circle on a wire)

as the chips pinout is already not numerically incrementing, why not flip pins so each segment of pins becomes clear what function it serves and connects to (the dip switch array for instance and especially the connector)

with the bridge rectifier, by shifting up the input connector up and the bridge rectifier down it can keep the rectifier pins grouped to that purpose,

with the dip switch liftup resistors that is pretty messy, and would be something easy to tidy up, by evenly spacing the resistors out and connecting in straight lines,

and another suggestion now that you have fixed up the schematics, every time you click on an image it reloads the page under a different link, as i was hunting around i had to go back 5-6 times more than i should have to...

[johnnyfp]

Thanks for the schematic design change tips.

Yeah I really need to revisit these, well all of them. Originally these where never going to be published, because there wasn't anywhere useful to publish too, but then I came out with this website idea and could now publish, to my shame, really messy Spaghetti style Schematics. They where only ever intended to get me from A - (PC)B 

 As for the clicking on image, yeah your absolutely right!, how annoying, I would have never picked it up myself. To caught up in the moment to notice these niggles.

Cheers

Steve