Month: June 2018

Since it seems a common problem to get DokuWiki to work on Synology NAS, here are some tips:

1. Before installing go to: “Web Station” and “PHP Settings” then select your PHP version profile.  Under extensions, add “mcrypt” and “openSSL”.
2. Install DocuWiki.
3. Run DocuWiki installation setup, make sure to set your needed parameters here.

If you have installed DocuWiki, but not gotten it to work, make sure you remove it in “Packet Center” before adding the extensions.

Happy Wiki’ing.

Some time back, I was contacted by someone from cadlab.io, asking if I would like to try it out.

Cadlab.io is a way of providing git with a extension to show Cadsoft Eagle files.

As the gif shows, there are ways of comparing the different commits, and showing both PCB layout and schematics.

There is both a free version, and a paid one with private repositories.  It’s a great tool for developing hardware, I just wish that github and the like would adopt it and incorporate it into their platform.

From what I have been able to get out of cadlab, KICAD files should be supported by the end of the year, and Altium may come after that.  For the record, I’m not receiving anything for writing this,  but its appearing as a new, useful tool for making hardware.