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Ralim / IronOS

Open Source Soldering Iron firmware
https://ralim.github.io/IronOS/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Repository name #639

Closed Ralim closed 3 years ago

Ralim commented 4 years ago

Currently thinking that adding support to this code base for other soldering irons in the future feels highly likely to occur. (#634)

As well as ts100 being a bit odd since the TS80 is also supported now as well.

So, opening the floor for anyone's ideas of what to rename the repo to. OR Do i leave the name as is and just make things more clear in the readme?

Open to ideas 🤔

Note that if I do change the name GitHub will redirect all old links etc so they shouldn't break.

JohnEdwa commented 4 years ago

Hmm, you can make it be descriptive with a workable abbreviation/acronym, like uh... Custom Iron Firmware Ecosystem (CIFE). It's also usually just called the"TS100 Ralim Custom Firmware" or some mix of those words, so something as simple as RalimCFW could work too. Or you can name it with a completely irrelevant name, like Marlin, Klipper or Cura that you just happen to like, if the idea of branding an open-source project with your name feels too narcissistic.

Another that came to mind is GadgetBridge, which is a unified app to handle wearable devices. From that I got SolderBridge. Maybe SolderBridgeCFW to make it slightly clearer, I 'unno.

ghost commented 4 years ago

For the reasons you've explained I think that changing name to the repository would make sense. After some struggle thinking about meaningful acronyms I came up with UNIRE (UNiversal IRon Ecosystem) - "to join" in Latin referring whether at soldering or putting together a community. Whatever the result, I can also possibly think of a logo.

Regards

discip commented 4 years ago

@federck This is a very interesting approach in many ways! 😲🤯 I like it very much! 👍

AntonMadness commented 4 years ago

I just got my TS80p in and I was confused finding TS80 info in the TS100 repo. So as a newcommer I'd say it's deviniatly good to change the name to minimize confusion.

I like the UNIRE and SolderBridge idea. But is this repo support really going that wide as those names suggest? Ie. will it also support other solder irons like the Pine's one (https://www.pine64.org/2020/07/15/july-updatepmos-ce-pre-orders-and-new-pinephone-version/). If not, maybe a name as simple as TSxxx will suffice. just my $0.02.

Edit: D'OH! I just re-read the post on the pine, and ITS YOU WHO ALREADY WROTE SOFTWARE FOR THE PINE PENCIL!! HERO! Ok, yea then let this be the general soldering iron firmware to rull the world then!

Ralim commented 4 years ago

@AntonMadness Indeed it is this repo thats most likely the firmware for Pinecil at this point.

There will be more news on that front soonish

@federck I am leaning towards unire as it is both fairly unique and also not something boring :D

Sort of leaning away from using Ralim in the name as it does indeed feel a bit... bold :grin: Would rather a "irrelevant" name as you mentioned, and can make the tagline (description?) on github descriptive so it should still come up in google searches :)

ghost commented 4 years ago

Hello, @federck here, I had a problem with my previous account. Since my proposal has been moderately successful (glad to hear that 😃), I also thougth to a simple logo in order to make it work both as a logo for the description page and, possibly, as a bootscreen for irons. More complex logos wouldn't be suitable as bootscreens, in my opinion.

CCI19082020

What do you think about it?

sreichholf commented 4 years ago

How about

JohnEdwa commented 4 years ago

Stylizing it, such as using UnIrE or UNire or UnIRE etc would fix the misreading problem.

Though there's also the issue that googling UNIRE will result in finding "Unione Nazionale Incremento Razze Equine", the Italian National Horse Breeding Union :)

Ralim commented 4 years ago

Another late night thought I had was to use "Ferrocerium" inspired by @sreichholf :thinking:

JohnEdwa commented 4 years ago

There are also other tin+lead mixtures instead of solder, namely Pewter and Terne. Ferroterne. Ternecerium. Pewterne. Ferrone. Ferroter. Pewcerium. Ferter. Ternerium.

Portmanteaus are fun.

discip commented 4 years ago

If I had to choose, I would probably go with UnIrE, like @federck & @JohnEdwa suggested.

And the logo could look something like this: UnIrE

Maybe someone has a better taste for font (something more 'tech-ish') or another image for the iron.

By the way: It is shorter and thus easier to remember (Maybe due to the very fact @ItsMeAubey mentioned.) compared to "Ternecerium" and the like.

doegox commented 4 years ago

Thought about FreeSolder in echo to Free Software :)

Ralim commented 3 years ago

Alrighty, going to stir this up again 🤣

So the list looks like:

  1. Unire / UNIRE 👍
  2. IronOS 😄
  3. Ferrocerium 🎉
  4. Ternerium ❤️
  5. FreeSolder 🚀
  6. OpenSolder 👀

To get a feel for shortening this list, I've added an emoji next to these, please react we emoji's as appropriate to vote for the ones you like :)

Ralim commented 3 years ago

Welp looks like IronOS is a far bigger winner than all the rest :) It also has very little similar stuff in Google so that is also a :+1:

Any complaints against this being the new option perhaps?

B9KGF commented 3 years ago

H.E.A.T.S. Handheld Electronics Algorithm for the TS-100 (and clones) Soldering Iron

tigerclaw989 commented 3 years ago

IronOS sounds very good. I like opensolder but it sounds like it’s an open solder joint.

Urus74 commented 3 years ago

Hello Ralim, thanks for the useful tips! I have received today my ts100 and tried to upgrade the firmware to the latest one. First I did it by Chinease, but found none on there miniware.com.cn. The solution I thought I found among your releases to the issue. The file had only 61 KB — as if an incomplete data (since I saw a German tutorial on this issue and there were 91 KB on the TS100_DE hex). Anyhow when I dragged it to the disk (after connecting the ts100 to the laptop) I always got the err. and not the rdy suffix. Could you, please, tell me where can I find the latest firmware for the TS100 on your page? Best regards Urus

Ralim commented 3 years ago

Hello Ralim, thanks for the useful tips! I have received today my ts100 and tried to upgrade the firmware to the latest one. First I did it by Chinease, but found none on there miniware.com.cn. The solution I thought I found among your releases to the issue. The file had only 61 KB — as if an incomplete data (since I saw a German tutorial on this issue and there were 91 KB on the TS100_DE hex). Anyhow when I dragged it to the disk (after connecting the ts100 to the laptop) I always got the err. and not the rdy suffix. Could you, please, tell me where can I find the latest firmware for the TS100 on your page? Best regards Urus

Hi @Urus74 Its better to open a new issue than commenting in this one. As stated in the readme on the main page, they are all at Releases. The file not going RDY is a known issue that is not actually related to the firmware. There are lots of issues raised about it, if you have a look through the search you should find them :)

i2 commented 3 years ago

@Ralim Can you close this issue please, now that it's decided? Thanks!

Urus74 commented 3 years ago

Hi Ralim, thanks for the answer. The problem has been solved. I had to unpack the zip file and after that its insertion into ts100 worked. Best regards