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The Pinouts Book by NODE

by jrmann100 on 12/25/21, 7:59 AM with 19 comments

  • by alexmcc81 on 12/25/21, 3:33 PM

    It looks like a good resource but why distribute it as a PDF and not a searchable webpage? And why put the diagrams and tables on different pages?

    For more obscure pinouts, I still check https://pinouts.ru/

  • by tpmx on 12/25/21, 3:33 PM

    When googling random pinout drawings from the web it's often very unclear whether the pinout drawing is showing e.g. the connector from the front or from the back (solder side).

    This problem is solved quite neatly here using multiple drawings of the connectors from different angles, arranged in a logical way around the main pinout drawing.

  • by anonymfus on 12/26/21, 2:13 AM

    3.5 mm TRRS connector is shown in CTIA (Left-Right-Ground-Mic) configuration, but OMTP (Left-Right-Mic-Ground) still occurs in the wild.

    With these drawings it's impossible to understand how high speed contacts in USB 3.0 Type A work, you need cutouts for this.

    For Ethernet ("RJ45") T568B wiring is just plain wrong about colours, looks like copy-paste mistake.

    Nowhere proper names for modular connectors are specified.

    MMC picture and pinout show only slowest 7 pin version.

    I don't understand how boards and chips were chosen for inclusion.

  • by thinkmassive on 12/25/21, 11:51 PM

    Very cool, this is by the same behind https://n-o-d-e.net/

    They have a print zine or two released previously

  • by AlbertoGP on 12/25/21, 5:11 PM

    Copying my own comment in lobste.rs a few minutes ago: https://lobste.rs/s/db5t25/pinouts_book#c_ntyhse

    This is brilliant, and I think it would get more attention if they mentioned up front that it is licensed under Creative Commons cc-by-sa.

    Some years ago I thought about downloading the whole of pinouts.ru (not this pinouts.org) to encode all the connectors as a database, then build an interface to it that would allow me to specify things like “cable, male DB9 rs-232-c, male RJ-45 Cisco” and get a diagram seen from the back of each connector, ready to solder the cables without the uncertainty of pinout sketches of different provenance and image quality. For instance, the side of the connector view is not always clear.

    One reason for not even starting is their restrictive license. My understanding is that the facts of which pin has which function are not protected by copyright (although collections of facts are in the EU), but it would be a lot of work anyway so the uncertainty added an excuse to be lazy.

    With this one there are no questions about the license, and I could even extract the drawings on the left side to SVG for instance, mark the coordinates of each pin (might be worth to semi-automate) and then have things like selecting some pins in the table at the right side, a color gets picked automatically, then a line with that color goes to the pin in the diagram. Then I could mark the pins I’m interested it at a given moment and see them at a glance.

    7 years ago I did an experiment in that direction, an HTML view of the Parallella single board computer derived from their PDF, for instance this search finds labels containing USB: https://demo.sentido-labs.com/parallella/schematic/#usb The buttons under the the input box at the top show the search results, clicking on each brings you to the corresponding page with a homing circle to show you where it is.

  • by squarefoot on 12/26/21, 6:08 PM

    Also worth mentioning the Hardware Book, which if memory serves dates back to before 2000. http://www.hardwarebook.info/
  • by jrmann100 on 12/25/21, 8:01 AM

    This was announced on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2P9celU1M
  • by worldmerge on 12/25/21, 11:25 PM

    Really cool!!