Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia

Crowberry

Really cool! I wonder what their data source is

contingencies

Missing entry for 'asml machine' :) Actually a lot of this is garbage AI hallucinated info, eg. https://bomwiki.com/item/drone-docking-station/ authoritatively combines USB devices with fanciful drone installations.

zetalyrae

Seems kinda silly to name such a huge project after a meme that will be stale in a few years, but then, this was likely all generated by AI, so it doesn't matter. EDIT: Expanding on this a bit, because I want this comment to be more productive and less old-man-yells-at-cloud. When I saw the link I got curious. It reminds me of the old skdb[0] project and of Open Source Ecology[1]. The idea is cool: a DAG of civilization from David Gingery[2] basic tools to jet planes and turbofans and rocket engines! Imagine that! If it was real, it would be world-changing. The creator would be a personal hero of mine. But it's not real. It's a vague suggestion of the real thing. Who is the creator? No-one knows. These vibeslop websites never have an About page, or contact info. No-one is putting their reputation on the line, regarding the quality or accuracy of the content. [0]: https://diyhpl.us/skdb/ [1]: https://www.opensourceecology.org/ [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Gingery

bobjordan

This is cool! Shameless plug, I started bomquote.com 15+ years ago with the thesis "everything is a BOM". We provide design firms & hardware teams design-to-MFG services including line item quotes for their entire BOM. Hard to believe I haven't come across this site by now.

nativeit

Well that soured quickly. A wiki is only as good as the human experts who volunteer to contribute towards it. I’m not sure there are any in this one?

pockybum522

What is the point of this? Apparently a minivan can be built using 170 parts. At that level of abstraction, this is useless.

OneManHorde

These are specifically not Bills of Material, but general (LLM-generated, it seems) lists of the kinds of parts involved in things. No specific part numbers are indexed, and things like "Bare PCB" are not usefully-broken-down; FR4 is quite different than what you'd use for a high-frequency RF board, so saying bare PCBs are "$1 to $200" is not at all helpful. I like the idea implied by the name, but this is more like a "Vaguely How Stuff Works dot com" than that.