How much people collaborate on in this great project? i Are you all the from Germany?
Karl-Heinz (k-firmware) and me (m-firmware), plus a few helping with support (like tom666), donating hardware (PCBs or clones) and providing some code ideas. Karl-Heinz and I are Germans.
If having a bigger uC:
- Do transistors and certain components have known characteristics that could be identified to know the model despite the code might be erased?
- Could the data sheets be transcribed and redone in saved in a database and compare the results to show the possible model?
* Of course, by crowdsourcing this daunting job of collecting information and using a converter to the very low overhead file format.
I know it's a crazy and probably impossible idea, but I'm curious about how difficult would be to achieve that by community contributions.
Do you think the IC tester from Chinese would be easy to replicate? I suppose the software would be more difficult than the hardware.
It might be possible to determine a class like small signal or power transistor, but nothing specific. The tester can't distinguish a BJT built for RF applications from a general purpose small signal one, for example. Detecting or testing ICs is a completely different story. You would need several voltages for power supply and signals. Some universal programmers can do that. Additional I/O pins would be used more likely for a frequency counter prescaler and some other hardware options, but not for testing ICs. And it's essential to have a 5V MCU.
Thanks a lot for your charm and learning message! I don't deserve it...
Only two are the main brains of this project? I'm impressed!
Would you both consider in promoting it to attract newcomers? Are you using German in the project?
Would you consider to have a dedicated project site with collaborators summarizing three project in blog posts?
So making that would be a very complex and big beast, very probably lots of research, brainstorming, design, prototyping and an expensive BoM. Would you a good filtered SMPS simplify it or there are lots more to take into account?
Am I right in something? Feel free to comment it if you want, I want to learn
What can be the reason of not adding IC testing? Too much complexity? Too much pins? Do you consider it out of the scope of the project and would be better to be a separate project? More interest in checking analog components?
I sorry, my ignorance made me unable to understand it! And I just learned a tiny amount of it! I wasn't enough aware of the complexity of specialized electronics, I'm starting to understand this is a current universe!
Thanks for your reasonings: They are inspirational, motivational and didactic. I must study a lot harder!
This reminds me to Inductive Chain Learning, Constructivism and Active Learning