Documentation & knowledge
How to Organize Hardware Engineering Documentation
What counts as documentation, why the usual axis is wrong, four rules that survive any tool, and the things nobody writes down.
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Documentation & knowledge
Organising hardware documentation and the knowledge around it.
Documentation & knowledge
Hardware Project Folder Structure: A Practical Example — and Where Folders Break Down
A folder tree that works, the four decisions behind it, the three things folders genuinely cannot do, and when they are still the right answer.
Documentation & knowledge
Why Is That 0 Ω Resistor There? Documenting Design Rationale
Files record what, never why. Which decisions deserve a written reason, where it should live, a five-line format, and the four costs of not having any.
Documentation & knowledge
Single Source of Truth Does Not Mean One System
The unit is the fact, not the system. How to decide which record wins for each fact, the three honest relationships a copy can have, and how to find your conflicts.