A Tool to Help me Inventory my Components
Background So, this summer I attended a local Retro-Computer festival, Boat-Fest ,where i picked up a selection of ICs from the free table. When I got home, I realized I had no easy way of figuring out what I had. This is the impetus for the ChipInventory project. The Project I wanted to do a small project with node.js and this seemed like a good time to start it. I looked around to see what was already out there in the way of chip identification databases and I found the ChipDB project and its related GitHub Repository and thought that this was a good start. The YAML file allows for a description of the component, a list of aliases, pin definitions, notes and specifications. It also has a link to the datasheet for the component. Unfortunately the datasheet sources used for the original data seems to have moved. I am slowly updating the links to newer locations. I started by creating a MySQL database that could hold the definition data that w...