I have been talking to Jason about using some of the features of the wiki to enable all users to create schematics on this site using a simple coding system of sorts. I think PassFan was actually the first to suggest this idea. It might work someting like the following.
You would type:
[[R W R ]]
What would be shown on screen when everyone else views your post would be an actual schematic of a resistor connected to a wire, which is connected to another resistor. A simple example, obviously there will be more features that will allow a full schematic to be drawn but you get the idea.
I think this system has a lot of advantages. First it could potentially save some space on the website server. It would allow everyone to create schematics in the same format without any special software at all, not even a graphics program. And most importantly, using the concept of the wiki it would be editable by everyone. For example I could post a circuit and ask for help. Then others could come and make small changes by just changing a symbol in the code instead of editing the drawing by hand.
Hope everyone gets the idea this post is getting pretty long. What I want to know is, would people be interested in this idea. If it sounds good then I will start doing the graphics. If not then I won't waste the time.
You would type:
[[R W R ]]
What would be shown on screen when everyone else views your post would be an actual schematic of a resistor connected to a wire, which is connected to another resistor. A simple example, obviously there will be more features that will allow a full schematic to be drawn but you get the idea.
I think this system has a lot of advantages. First it could potentially save some space on the website server. It would allow everyone to create schematics in the same format without any special software at all, not even a graphics program. And most importantly, using the concept of the wiki it would be editable by everyone. For example I could post a circuit and ask for help. Then others could come and make small changes by just changing a symbol in the code instead of editing the drawing by hand.
Hope everyone gets the idea this post is getting pretty long. What I want to know is, would people be interested in this idea. If it sounds good then I will start doing the graphics. If not then I won't waste the time.