codebeaker

I'm a electronics hobbyist who's just about wrapping up a Pi compute module carrier board for a project. My first non-trivial PCB in fact, and it seems like it's going to work.

The Pi computer module has been the most accessible way I can find to get my hands on a Broadcom processor, but still, this unit adds $35 to my BOM, from which I estimate 15-20$ to be unnecessary parts (for my application).

I cannot find the BCM2711B0, or the BCM2837B0 anywhere for sale on DigiKey, Mouser or Octopart.

Similarly the Allwinner v3, the Novatek 966660, anything by Realtek, etc.

Possibly I'm going about this the wrong way, I've never designed a product for manufacture before, probably I find a partner in Shenzhen to source them for me, but what about small run build-at-home-prototypes, should I salvage the Broadcoms from older generation raspberry pis?

How do actually trained, well-connected electrical engineers who aren't solely derping around in their basement approach these kinds of issues?

Dear HN,

I'd like to ask if anyone has recommendations for a document management system for private usage.

My use-case is as such:

- we have a capable multi function print/scanner scanning to a Synology NAS

- we have a plethora of docs which don't categorize neatly

- we would like to be able to "tag" documents as "insurance", "health", "husband", "wife", "kid1", "germany", "private" rather than be forced to pick one category for them.

I don't really mind what the solution looks like, but something like macOS file tags are too "fragile" and likely to be overwritten by a careless copy from my terminal, or not survive over a SMB network mount, or similar.

My first instinct was to write something, moreso when looking around and seeing that all document management systems I found seemed to be geared towards big businesses, and were horribly complicated, expensive and cumbersome with nasty UIs.

For our volume (a few thousand docs each year, tops) a FUSE filesystem which supported extended attributes and maintained a CAS database of file hash to "tag" and exposed the tags as directories would work beautifully I expect, but I don't want to reinvent a wheel if I can avoid it.

Any recommendations HN?