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You will find some of our project development under the ProjectPage and other information on DocsPage. This will lead you to endless information of datasheets of microcontroller units, sensors, assembly, and some non-specific frequently asked questions (FAQ).
The Wiki and Collaborating
This website uses a Wiki engine to allow you the developer, programmer, user, etc to interact completely with the developmental process of open source engine performance or the evolution of a particular engine-project.
Wiki is the only efficient way (chronological forums and email lists are proven to be highly inferior, that just waste too much of people's time due to the 95..98% ratio of outdated information and non-thematical organization) to support projects while building a knowledge-base at the same time. Wiki saves a huge amount of time. Think of it as a way to combine mailing lists, websites, and forums into one medium. Wiki is exactly as clear and efficent as we - including you - make it. When you have some contribution, or a question, just do some research browsing around relevant pages (SiteIndex helps searching), find the relevant page and ask / answer there. This process saves you and us from doing double work.
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Latest News
- 2004.11.01. We started a run of CNC frontplate (the newest design, similar to CaseFrontplate but still simpler without the pegs and easy to assemble) and endplate (testrun first) in a local shop, dropping the unreliable shop. I hope this ends the terrible situation that such simple parts delay shipment of items by weeks.
- 2004.10.04. I got the picknplace manufactured V3.2 boards.
- the PCB quality is awesome (including the edges)
- the solder-protect quality is extreme (unlike v3.0 and v3.1 that pealed off relatively easy if soldered too long: this is very hard to remove)
- it is dark-green (I said we'd prefer blue, but ... sigh)
- the parts-placement and reflow quality is awesome. I think we finally arrived to our future manufacturing facility. They make industrial controllers and very dense computers on the same machine. Very impressive, really. Over any expectations. We'll also make our next boards 0603.
- I played a bit tonight to get the first v3.2 up and tested (soldered the throughole parts: pinheaders, transient protection diode; tested ISP, RS232, LCD, ign259, mcp3208).
- 2004.09.08. Site has been given a face lift, and development for the GenBoard V.3 ECU Manual has taken on a new pace. Please read read GenBoard/Manual for the latest!
- 2004.07.15. As v3.1 stock (from the automated assembly run) is getting low, we will soon start preparing the v3.2 run. However there are some decisions yet to be made. There will be no topology differences, but maybe we can gain some (slight)advantage by designing a fully custom case (GenBoard/VerThree/CustomCNCCase ) and making the right side (power transistors) to match, but the overall work seems a bit too much.
- 2004.05.14. I got v3.1 boards from the first automated assembled batch up and running and tested. Very nice board to work with, great design electronically and mechanically too, good job, guys.
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