The Pinouts Book: Pinout functions for 130 commonly used components

• Pinout.xyz

  48 671 6.1 HTML

  Source files for the Raspberry Pi Pinout documentation website.

  

Obligatory shameless plug of https://pinout.xyz where I’ve been maintaining an interactive Raspberry Pi SBC pinout for some years, and the newer https://pico.pinout.xyz where I’ve tried to do the same for the Raspberry Pi Pico board. The latter also became a command-line pinout via the Python package “picopins”

I feel- and of course I’m biased- that if anything is worth bringing to the table for device pinouts it’s interactivity and accessibility. The latter, in particular, is lost in static images. I really leaned into this with the Pico Pinout, including everything from visual accessibility accommodations (avoiding low contrast text background colours), to markup for screen readers to the ability to turn off labels and reduce noise. I’m still unsure if I actually achieved my goal, but it’s been fun.

• pinouts.org-pdf-bookmarks

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Recommendations to the author:

1) As others have said, a version with black on white illustrations would be massively useful for printouts.

2) Bookmarks/Table of Contents. While I was happy to see the headings in the ToC in the book itself were clickable, there's only one bookmark in the PDF and that's randomly for page 298.

3) Why distribute it as a zip file, 3.8 MB vs 3.5 MB doesn't seem worth the hassle.

4) A miniature lineart on the pinout chart pages would be nice too.

5) USB Type Micro B is listed 3.0 then 2.0, but the other USB ports are listed 2.0 then 3.0, likewise the Micro B appears before all the other types, but Mini B is after the USB B connectors

6) You have firewire 6 pin, but not 8 pin or 4 pin

7) The board on page 264 looks like it should be a Rock Pro 64, but it's labeled Rock 64 like the previous board

Because I don't like to just complain, I've created a bookmarks text file that can be applied to the PDF using JPdfBookmarks and includes some of the corrections I've noted above. There doesn't appear to be a feedback/suggestions link on the site, so here's a link to a repo instead

https://gitlab.com/tpmoney/pinouts.org-pdf-bookmarks

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