Electronic Parts
Electronic Parts at Noisebridge
We have a lot of donated parts, but they are currently badly to not organized. Until they are, this page describes the project to organize them.
Organization Project
The organization effort are divided into several phases. The goal is to have a system that allows us to have various people work independently whenever their schedule permits.
Phases Overview
- Numbering. We number all filled drawers as they are now in the cabinets. The number helps us associate these with the components they contain to enter in the database. Status: good chunk done (Douglas did the bulk of it).
- Entering in Database
- Take pictures of interesting components. Many pictures have already been taken and associated with the number on the drawer.
- Identify parts and enter them in the database (work in progress).
- Coalesce duplicate items in database (not started yet; requires Phase 2 to be complete)
- Big physical drawer re-org: Database suggests which drawers with duplicate items to put together in one bin (result of phase 3). Print labels with barcodes and put on drawers. Database suggests grouping of items but allows the manual work in meat space to do work independently for fast progress. No tedious entering of new physical locations in the system needed.
- We take picture of the final cabinets. Barcodes are identified in the image and system remembers position of each item. Good thing: this can be re-done whenever some other manual org has been done in meat space.
- A galvo-like system is built that points a laser to a component searched.
- Profit.
Phase 1 Numbering
TBD describe
Phase 2 ID parts
Enter parts in database
TBD describe. System to enter http://pegasus:3000/ It also has a Status Page that gives an idea of the progress.
Take pictures
TDB: describe
Phase 3 and following
Will be interesting after Phase 2 completes