@PedalPCB if we could talk about your process for putting together build docs, I could write a program that generates the parts list page with a section of grouped parts. I assume the program you're using to design PCBs is spitting out the current parts list?
I could then write something everyone here could use that, given a list of build doc urls, retrieve and parse the PDFs and create a "master list" for a bunch of projects. I
could build that parser right now,
but, if we agreed on a format for a grouped section in the build docs, that'd make it a lot easier bc some of the build docs are inconsistent right now (list vs. table format like
page 2 here)
In either case we'd need to backfill all the old build docs with the new format.
Does this make sense? Do we want this?
re: generating mouser cart, I started work on this using the mouser api bc I hate waiting for the full page to refresh when going back and forth between selecting resistor values for example. The thing here is this program would need configuration so that people could set what brands and values
they want for components like: 100ppm koa vs. 50ppm whatever resistors or cap voltage or 5% vs. 10% caps etc. there would also need to be fall backs when mouser might not have enough stock for some parts. Personally, I use the aionfx recommendations for components but not everyone here does so idk how many people would actually want this if it wasn't configurable.