Open Source Lack of Funding

part of LCSC, why wouldn't they work with all the LCSC inventory? Heck, ev en the LCSC site is not that great. They can't even tell you what they car ry and what they don't without going to the individual pages. They seem to list a bunch of Chinese FPGAs, but don't actually have any of them.

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Maybe you can tell us what info is in the file?

The column headings are:

LCSC Part MFR.Part First Category Second Category Package Solder Joint Manufacturer Library Type Description Datasheet Price Stock

The Price column has multiple price breaks. Stock is the available stock count, changing from day to day. Datasheet is a pointer to their own archive of data sheets.

Unfortunately many Chinese fabs do not provide English language data sheets for otherwise nice-looking parts.

Over 37k parts available, with 27K currently in-stock.

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Ok, so this info is virtually useless for selecting a part. Nothing techni cal in it. Just a rather general category and package. Everything else mu st come from a data sheet. I guess you can exclude some parts on price eve n before you know what they are exactly.

I don't get what you feel this will accomplish. This info is easily availa ble from their web site. In addition to package you can select manufacture rs in some categories. Otherwise it's a matter of digging into the data sh eet on every part in the list.

Exactly. Except the info for selecting the part often *does* exist in LCSC or DigiKey. Cross-referencing that data so the list can be used for part selection would be useful and potentially time-saving. I was suggesting automating that by web scraping, to reduce the mammoth effort it would take to do it manually.

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If you are talking about pulling data from Digikey and incorporating that i nto your data base along with the same search functionality that Digikey ha s, that could be useful. Anything else would just be a tremendous time sin k. Without the search capability there is no way to choose a part from the JLC data.

I normally think of "cross-referencing" as linking to other data such as pr oviding the JLC database with links to the Digikey information. But that i s not useful. What is useful is the search capability. Using the Digikey search without the JLC content information is pointless because you will ha ve far too many hits in the Digikey data that do not have an entry in the J LC data.

One database with a complete parametric search capability is the only way t his can be useful. Anything else is just kidding yourself.

So now tells the story of why you are so up and up over the COVID, its all about money for you, isn't it?

I have some nice words I could add to this message abuot what I think about those takng advantage of an event, true, exaggerated or just made up.

of the rev 1 boards built, but they are terribly full of bugs. Just stupid things that would have been caught in a design review, but until I came on board there was no one to do the design review with.

Mk 2). It has been a real cluster f**k because of the lack of a requiremen ts analysis and "stuff" just keeps changing and getting added.

free by JLCPCB, but now that we've sent a BoM to them they said they will o nly assemble parts from their parts list. I'm not certain this excludes us providing parts they don't carry, but still, just trying to go through the ir list to see what they have that might be compatible is a huge time sink.

al category, then a sub category. Then you can select a package. Then you have to wade through all the parts individually and view data sheets to ge t info. It reminds me of the 90's.

e links between their sites as well as to EasyPCB.

Off your meds again?

How exactly do you think I'm making money off this disease? No, don't answ er that, I don't want to feed your delusions.