Seems kinda silly to name such a huge project after a meme that will be stale in a few years, but then, this was likely all generated by AI, so it doesn't matter.
EDIT: Expanding on this a bit, because I want this comment to be more productive and less old-man-yells-at-cloud.
When I saw the link I got curious. It reminds me of the old skdb[0] project and of Open Source Ecology[1]. The idea is cool: a DAG of civilization from David Gingery[2] basic tools to jet planes and turbofans and rocket engines! Imagine that!
If it was real, it would be world-changing. The creator would be a personal hero of mine. But it's not real. It's a vague suggestion of the real thing.
Who is the creator? No-one knows. These vibeslop websites never have an About page, or contact info. No-one is putting their reputation on the line, regarding the quality or accuracy of the content.
This is cool! Shameless plug, I started bomquote.com 15+ years ago with the thesis "everything is a BOM". We provide design firms & hardware teams design-to-MFG services including line item quotes for their entire BOM. Hard to believe I haven't come across this site by now.
These are specifically not Bills of Material, but general (LLM-generated, it seems) lists of the kinds of parts involved in things. No specific part numbers are indexed, and things like "Bare PCB" are not usefully-broken-down; FR4 is quite different than what you'd use for a high-frequency RF board, so saying bare PCBs are "$1 to $200" is not at all helpful.
I like the idea implied by the name, but this is more like a "Vaguely How Stuff Works dot com" than that.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 24.4 ms ] threadActually a lot of this is garbage AI hallucinated info, eg. https://bomwiki.com/item/drone-docking-station/ authoritatively combines USB devices with fanciful drone installations.
EDIT: Expanding on this a bit, because I want this comment to be more productive and less old-man-yells-at-cloud.
When I saw the link I got curious. It reminds me of the old skdb[0] project and of Open Source Ecology[1]. The idea is cool: a DAG of civilization from David Gingery[2] basic tools to jet planes and turbofans and rocket engines! Imagine that!
If it was real, it would be world-changing. The creator would be a personal hero of mine. But it's not real. It's a vague suggestion of the real thing.
Who is the creator? No-one knows. These vibeslop websites never have an About page, or contact info. No-one is putting their reputation on the line, regarding the quality or accuracy of the content.
[0]: https://diyhpl.us/skdb/
[1]: https://www.opensourceecology.org/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Gingery
At that level of abstraction, this is useless.
I like the idea implied by the name, but this is more like a "Vaguely How Stuff Works dot com" than that.