[hackerspaces] Announcement: PartKeepr - Electronic Component Database

[Koen Martens]

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On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:03:34PM +0200, Timo A. Hummel wrote:
> 
> >I noticed the reference of 'self-healing' part stock levels in the FAQ;
> >however I'm wondering whether you're planning on implementing to read
> >specific part names from QR or barcodes? Like, if you're taking some
> >part, simply scanning a label on that drawer to update its stock level
> >would sound more easy to me than necessarily having to browse for it?
> We thought about barcode/QR printing for storage locations, but have
> not yet decided if it would be useful. As we usually have more than
> one part in the same storage location, that would be pretty hard to
> achieve if we simply would add a QR code to the box itself. But if
> you have only one kind of parts in each storage location, well, that
> would work of course. Since we start out to add inlays to each
> storage location, we could of course add QR codes to them. I'm not
> sure if "inlay" is the correct term; I can link a picture of what I
> mean with that.

Why not use regular barcodes?? Take up way less space, although you'd need
to enable a mapping between arbitrary numbers and your stock inventory.

Also, Zarya of bitlair (on of the most recent Dutch hackerspaces) has
also built a system like it:

https://github.com/bitlair/pmdb

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