AI notice: generated illustrations, hand-drawn diagrams, checked text

The large pictures at the top of each page, and the occasional illustration beside a section, are generated with an AI image model. Each one starts as a written description prepared by the editorial team: a workbench with a small circuit board and a coil of cable, a chest of small parts drawers, a letterbox. The model turns that description into an image. Each description names the subject, the setting and the palette, and states that the picture must not contain letters, numbers or logos.

All of the illustrations share one visual style: soft isometric scenes with muted colors, simple shapes and gentle lighting. The style was chosen on purpose. It reads clearly as an illustration, so nobody mistakes a picture for a photograph of a real product, and it keeps the pages visually consistent from the kit catalogue to the guides.

The illustrations are decorative. They set the topic of a page, but no fact on the site depends on them, and none of them should be used to identify a board, a connector or a component. Each one is marked where it appears: an "AI-generated image" label sits in its corner, the same words end its alternative text, and every image file carries the IPTC digital source type for AI-generated media, so the origin travels with the file.

Clear, freely usable photographs of the Midon Design kits are rare. The boards were made in small numbers, many are long out of service, and the rights to the few pictures that exist are often unclear. Rather than reuse images without permission, or fill pages with generic stock photos of unrelated electronics, the site uses illustrations that make no claim to show the hardware at all.

The trade-off is honesty about what an image is. A photograph implies that the object existed and looked that way; a soft isometric illustration does not. That is why the style is kept consistent and why this notice exists.

The images are not photographs of Midon Design kits, and they are not accurate drawings of any real circuit. An illustration on the TEMP08 page may show a small board with a jack and some chips, but it does not show the real TEMP08 layout, the real connectors or the real part placement. Image models do not know what a specific discontinued board looked like, and they tend to invent plausible details.

The illustrations also contain no text. Image models often produce garbled lettering, fake part numbers or nonsense labels, and on a technical site such text could be read as real information. Descriptions are written to exclude lettering, and images that come out with visible text are not used.

If you need to identify a real board, rely on the written descriptions, connector lists and tables on the kit pages, starting from the kit catalogue.

Anything that carries technical information is made by hand, without an image model. That includes:

• tables, such as sensor support lists, connector definitions and kit comparisons;
• diagrams of wiring, pinouts and network layouts;
• command references and example output from the kits' firmware.

These elements are built directly from the source facts and checked the same way as the text. When a diagram shows an RJ-12 pinout, for example, it follows the wiring described in the kit documentation and the 1-Wire wiring standard, not an approximation. Tables in particular are real HTML text, so they can be read by screen readers, searched and copied, which a picture of a table would not allow.

The writing on every page is produced and fact-checked by the site's editorial team. Facts about the kits come from Midon Design's own published descriptions, manuals and specifications, rewritten in plain language rather than copied. General statements about 1-Wire devices stick to standard datasheet facts, and the official manufacturer pages are linked where they help. When a detail cannot be confirmed from a reliable source, it is left out.

Errors still happen. If you find one, the contact page explains how to report it. Confirmed corrections are made on the page itself. More about the site and its structure is on the about page.