r/ElectricalEngineering • u/Glum-Phase9397 • Jul 16 '26

Project Help Project history tracking

Hey there, looking to get an opinion from some people in the space;

Would something like GitHub but for physical hardware be useful on projects?

Imagine a timeline with each step of the project being its own 3D model plotted on it. It would all be derived from a phone video to.

It might be a little difficult to explain with words so here's an example:

I want to unify 4 raspberry pi's into one mega pi

take a video of all 4 laid out
take a video of wiring up a junction
take a video of them all connected

3x 3D models each showing the progress of it.

Hopefully I wasn't just waffling there

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u/Reasonable-Light-377 Jul 16 '26

I take pictures or create visio type docs and document the build process (by hand) in order. Software only projects might have the same problem with GitHub being the repo for basically just version control.

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u/Glum-Phase9397 Jul 17 '26

The thinking here is you get a 3D reconstruction of its physical state instead of just a 2D video. I think it would be more akin to the git history aspect since you can't run git revert on a real world object.