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Jami! Why the sign off? Fred wasn't saying it didn't belong. I don't want to duplicated efforts. If you want to stick to coding and give me something useful to do, we can. But what we need - ASAP - is a single reasonably golden BOM - at least for a basic build. Oh, I was just waiting for feedback f...

I sign off for now.

Well, opto is expensive, big in size (at least the ones I saw) and there aren't many multi-channel ICs out there. There is a 6 channel RF isolator, though, that could be interesting. It was in the dirst drafts of the puma design and got removed. How about 4N35 series optocouplers? They seem to be g...

One temporary work-around would be defining one or several "null" parts, which would satisfy dependencies. It would have each supplier listed with price: 0 or something and defined as a fall-back for components that don't have alternatives within a single vendor's scope. So, before I do an...

tried to add a supplier, but it expects that every component will have the part number for both suppliers, so I'll just replace the part or add a replacement. That sounds like a bug or flaw to me. That will regularly not be the case. Jammi, comments? Marcos' assumption is correct, the solution to i...

Jammi wrote:It's an isolated database for a good reason: flexibility.

Other good reasons are tracking of changes (via repository) as well as reliability (relying on external parties directly makes the system only as reliable as the sum of the external dependencies).

Now I see the flaw. It took me a while to realize it doesn't communicate with any internet service, I got kind of upset when I wasn't able to find the segment of code that does something like an http request. It's an isolated database for a good reason: flexibility. Electronic components are just o...

an ability to tune for pure gas ( which contains at least 10% ethanol and suppose to go up in a couple years ) It only has ethanol in it in some places. In NZ for example one company sells fuel with ethanol in it, the rest do not. Around different parts of the USA the deal is the same, between zero...

This is something I plan to do too. In fact, in my current carburettor car it's roughly usable by keeping the (manual) choke open at all times. Even if there was no easy way to auto-detect the fuel, even a rough estimate by user input, like a potentiometer to set "ethanol content %" utiliz...

Oh, and regarding setup of the web ui of FreeBOMBS: 1) Install Ruby (and RubyGems), Ruby 1.9.2 is a lot quicker than 1.8.7. Use RVM if the version of your distribution is outdated. 2) Once you have a gem command available, do this: sudo gem install bluecloth sudo gem install sqlite3 (You also need t...