Creation IDs are used to digitally identify unique creations of many forms. The term creation is intentionally vague to encompass anything digitally identifiable. Creation IDs can be used in any system that needs a standard creation identifier such as BLE device discovery, WiFi device identification or FPGA peripheral identification.
Creation IDs are administered by a person or organization who has been assigned a creator ID. They may or may not actually be the creator of the creation. Creator IDs are 32-bit numbers administered in this repository and are paired with 32-bit creation ids that are administered by the creator. These are similar to USB vendor ID (VID) and product ID (PID) but open source and freely available.
Creator IDs are 32-bit numbers that designate who created something. In practice, this may also designate a third-party who is maintaining IDs on the behalf of the creator. For example, creator IDs automatically encompass all 16-bit USB vendor IDs by prepending the 16-bit 0x0000
prefix. Creator and creation IDs use _
to separate the 16-bit halves to make these prefixes more obvious. We also have the 0x000C
prefix for community administered creation IDs for creators with an existing USB VID.
Make a change to this README and make a PR to get a new creator ID for your own creations. If you have your own USB VID already, add an entry with the 0x0000
prefix and link to the location of your creation IDs. If not, choose a unique 32-bit number that doesn’t start with 0x00
because that is reserved for other ID subsets.
Make a change to this README and make a PR to document it. If the creator has a USB VID assigned to them, then add an entry with the 0x000C
prefix to denote that it is community administered. If not, choose a unique 32-bit number that doesn’t start with 0x00
because that is reserved for other ID subsets. The complete list of USB Vendor IDs is available from the USB Developers page under “Valid USB Vendor ID Numbers”. We’re ok using obsolete VIDs as well because they are still unique.
It is often the case that community creation ids will also be administered in this repo as well. If that’s what you want to do, then also add a creations/<creator>.md
file in your PR. You can also create a separate place to administer creation ids so that you control who can assign them. We don’t care as long as the creation id is unique and makes that clear.
Creation ID allocation is left up to the creator. However, here are some guidelines for consistency.
0x0000
prefix plus the USB PID for the creation id.0x0000
(to reserve it for USB PIDs.)0x00C3
.0x0000_xxxx
- Reserved for USB VID IDs and official allocations0x000C_xxxx
- Reserved for USB VID IDs administered by the community0x000C_2886
Seeed Studio0x000C_303A
Espressif0x000C_303B
AI Thinker0x00xx_xxxx
- Reserved for future ID subsets0x01xx_xxxx
0x0101_1ACE
01 Space0x0Dxx_xxxx
0x0D10_C000
VIDI0x0D10_D000
Hardkernel0x0DB6_ED6E
Debug Edge0x1xxx_xxxx
0x1010_1010
DFRobot0x1011_1011
WeAct0x1015_1015
M5Stack0x1337_1337
Mark Olsson (k0d)0x148E_173C
Heltec0x1876_0000
Spotpear0x1923_1923
Deneyap0x1988_1988
Wemos0x1996_0000
Silabs0x1998_1000
Maker Go0x1999_1000
Sunton0x1A00_0000
Makerfabs0x1BBB_0000
Waveshare0x1C33_0000
Freenove0x1C34_0000
April_Brother0x4xxx_xxxx
0x4496_E3F4
SQFMI0x4D69_0000
Oak Dev Tech0x4F58_3097
Oxocard0x6xxx_xxxx
0x6d44_6576
MicroDev0x7xxx_xxxx
0x7001_0001
Bruce Segal (skieast)0xBxxx_xxxx
0xB0B0_0000
Unexpected Maker0xBA00_0000
Espruino / Bangle.js0xCxxx_xxxx
0xC3C3_0000
LILYGO0xDxxx_xxxx