The Pinouts Book helps you understand components and boards
The Pinouts Book is a free PDF download contains over 300 pages of high-contrast hardware diagrams and their respective pinouts.
The Pinouts Book is a free digital book created for designers and engineers as a quick reference for remembering the different pinout functions in your electronics projects.
The book covers 130 commonly used components (view list), such as connectors, single board computers, dev boards, memory cards, microcontroller chips, and more (includes 11 Adafruit boards, but we’re not involved in this).
If you need more technical information, each page has a link at the top (e.g. pinouts.org/XXX), and these redirect to official datasheets / specifications.
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I think it would be a good idea to have a version that does not use black backgrounds for the line drawings, if you try to print it on an inkjet, which is the most common printers that people have, you will burn through a lot of ink and end up with a pike of very soggy pages.
Just provide an inkjet version that has the drawings all reversed, black for white.
I think it would be a good idea to have a version that does not use black backgrounds for the line drawings, if you try to print it on an inkjet, which is the most common printers that people have, you will burn through a lot of ink and end up with a pike of very soggy pages.
Just provide an inkjet version that has the drawings all reversed, black for white.