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The Crew Displays do not use Knockout.js. As far as I am aware this is possibly used in some other asset management software developed in-house for manufacturing teams but definite…

Yup.

Good luck everyone. Will be interesting to see the community try and solve some real problems.

Totally fair point, the product itself is somewhat....over designed ;-)

Having played around with 3d printers for the last couple of years I have to say that they are an indispensable tool for makers/hackers/inventors/artist types. However for mass mar…

I don't know about that. I think I'd take the flight, then launch a kickstarter off the back of the publicity :-)

Who's going to be first to enter and what are you going to build?

We just released a new version with user upload support. Hope its useful for you.

Hey all, looking for some feedback on our new site. A lot more detail about what we're trying to do can be found on our blog at http://blog.datasheet.net Would love to hear what yo…

Yeah I think that's definitely been the problem thus far. There's a wind of change in the air though, I would definitely encourage you to try contacting the large manufacturers dir…

Well lets hope that the CircuitHub team can get the traction they need to get the attention of the big manufacturers then. There's certainly a chicken and the egg problem happening…

What would it take to make a footprint database you can trust? I would imagine that community ranking/flagging of content could surely clean up inconsistent or invalid designs maki…

Not so much sadly. Its rather limited in terms of design area, and the technology probably wouldn't scale to larger schematics anyway since its SVG based and currently SVG performa…

Do you have a reference for this? I'd love to see the stats.

As some may recall I recently launched CircuitBee, a service which allows you to web embed your electronics schematics. Upverter also recently launched their product which lets you…

Interesting. I have often wondered about the peak traffic and post churn times on HN. The 9am period you hit would logically be a fairly low traffic time given that the bulk of HN …

This is the approach we have been taking at CircuitBee ( http://www.circuitbee.com ). We have Eagle and KiCAD importing, with versioning on the way already. We're not aiming to rep…

Haha! Never saw that site before, but man are those some upset employees! It certainly is a hell of a place to work as a developer. I was almost grateful for it in a way, it was my…

Yes, the complete package is what they can offer big business. There are so many pieces to it now that they can turn it to a huge range of different uses. The problem they have (we…

Not sure how true that is. At their most basic they do text classification and extraction, as well as document comparison. So you can index a whole load of documents, then train th…

That is quite likely. They have a huge range of contacts amongst government, educational, financial and just about every other large organisation you can think of. If you wanted to…

I worked for them for a couple of years as a developer. They do have an underlying core technology developed in the very early days of the company which they have exploited to the …

Agreed. Very useful for PHP development.

I'm glad someone put this up here, after the press we've had the last couple of days I think I need advice from all you guys on how to manage this. Since Make posted about it on Sa…