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This is very very nice. If it doesn't hit the front page, you should consider resubmitting as a "Show HN", which typically gets more votes. This is great work, and kudos to you...both for making a polished, professional website and for doing so in the service of education.

Really well done! I actually worked in a shop similar to this (we were more focused on CNC machines but we had all the fab equipment too) during my freshmen year in college. Not only do I think the site is nice in general but it would have actually been useful to have a place people could quickly look on their phones to see which buttons to press and which levers to pull to operate the machines.

I still think that the teacher should have paid for the site. Or at the very least started using it (which, as far as I'm aware, he still doesn't even tell students it exists).

Unfortunatly most people don't understand the level of effort it takes to make this look so nice and have great functionality.

Well done janka, it's really a great site

How long ago did you make this? The design style is fairly current (in my opinion), you may have designing on the cutting edge.

Great work, you should develop this into a Clever app.

I agree with danso, this is really good work, and it's really cool too.

I made a (free) site pretty similar to what you describe:

https://www.takeitapart.com

TakeItApart lets anyone can see or share annotated photo-based disassembly guides, to find part numbers, names, and required tools. We're tying to make the website the community-contributed disassembly encyclopedia of the web--so anyone can take things apart, virtually, without picking up a screwdriver. It's also super easy to add a new guide--just bulk upload a set of photos and click "next" a few times.

It's a way to share engineering and industrial design know-how. For example, I've learned to consider in-board strain relief[1] for cables and spray-on ground shielding[2] from taking things apart.

1. https://www.takeitapart.com/guide/51#step-4

2. https://www.takeitapart.com/guide/25#step-11

That sounds like a cool idea where people could collaboratively add and edit pictures of things and add the names of parts

That's a great book, thankyou for telling me about it - these links, to interesting knowledge that I wouldn't discover on my own, are the best part of hn.

kek

Thanks! For some reason I never thought of putting it on a resume, but I will now.

I haven't before, but I just might now. It was a real pain for me to add those machines that are there now, I did it all manually by checking how far parts were from the top left of the image. I probably could have came up with a way to add parts to an image by clicking on it... oh well.

Yeah, go for it