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Re: AID: Contribution

From: tak   takmath.TU-Berlin.DE
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:41:56 -0800

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Hi everybody

I am yet another newcomer who wants to learn about the AID kit.
I have only very basic electronics knowledge.
I would like to work on the documentation from that perspective.
I.e. I would start to learn step by step and enhance the

(do-it-yourself) documentation in parallel. create helped me
already a bit, in particular he gave me the rights for administering
in drupal, so that I can create book pages. He also suggested
that I should send my questions to the list.

I am a bit confused which comments I should send to a forum and
which to the list. Is it possible to forward a forum comment also
to the list?

I would like to include a forum (or a "root forum topic" in
stfn's terminology) called: "Getting started" where people
can discuss their problems when getting started. The first topics
could be "tools" and "PCB printing", as this is what I will be
concerned with at the beginning.

Let me know if this is OK with you, if I include this forum.
I didn't dare to mess up with the forums as a newcomer :-)!

I think about to have a peronal blog about my progress, just as
Erins (what happened to it?!) but I think its not
enough if beginners have only their blogs - they
should also be able to discuss.

About the PCB printing:

I think I might go for it.
But before I buy all the chemicals and drill thousands
of wholes (by the way what size are the holes? Is there
a difference in size between holed with a square around
them to that with an annulus?) I want to make sure
that this has SOME sustainability. It is clear to me
that you all want to keep the system flexible, but you have
to have some kind of stability. I think it would be
very useful to have a running "stable AID kit" and
a "developpers AID kit" which is up to date but not
necessarily stable. yes - it is nerving to supply
support and bug fixes to an old kit! but I think at
some point this is inevitable if you want to include a
broader audience and if you want to have the kit
be manufactured.


About uploading files.

I converted the bitmap of the mainboard_pcb_copper schematic into pdf.
Its currently at node 181.
I can convert also the other files but I cannot check that into
CVS since I am not a developper.

Could someone please check wether it has the correct sizes for
a print. It looked good to me as the spacings
between the pins looked like 2.54 mm = 0.1 inches but still - please 
check.

by the way there is an old file called MAINBOARD_PCB.pdf in

http://aid.interaccess.org/drupal/cvscontent/Core/Schematics-and-PCB/mainboard/

it is different from the current bmp file, which you can easily
check by looking at the upper right corner.
what is the status of that?

tak



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