Fritzing
andyg (geekscape)
Jonathan Oxer wrote:
> I downloaded it last week and had a brief play around with it - long
> enough to see that it's a very interesting project, but not long enough
> to actually gain much of a clue about how to do useful things.
The Fritzing application (http://fritzing.org) focuses on people
entering their "project" as it would appear on a real bread-board.
It then provides two subsequent views, 1) schematic and 2) circuit
board, which allow you to alter the placements and wire / track
routing.
The idea is that you can then generate a PDF of the result and use it
to
create your own PCB, i.e. it helps you get from bread-boarding to a
real
PCB as easily as possible. Especially, for those people who would
feel
overwhelmed (at first) by Eagle.
> I've thought briefly about using Fritzing for documentation for
> Practical Arduino since a big issue is going to be representing circuit
> diagrams and layouts (PCB, protoshield, and breadboard) and Apress have
> so far provided nil guidance on how they want that done.
Fritzing looks like it has a lot of potential, but it is still early
days in terms of reliability and functionality, e.g. library of
components.
> Fritzing might be a good thing to have a mini-session on at the
> Hackerspace, even if it's just a bunch of us collectively exploring it.
> Having a tool that allows us to easily document and share hardware we're
> working on would be *really* handy.
During this Saturday's meeting, there will be a time set aside for
hackers getting up-to-speed with their Arduinos and related tools /
utilities.
Bryn Davies
> The Fritzing application (http://fritzing.org) focuses on people
> entering their "project" as it would appear on a real bread-board.
Hello everyone (de-lurking here),
This looks really interesting - I am definitely one of those who
would be overwhelmed by EAGLE, and this would work really nicely with
a toner-transfer etching method, as it produces PDFs. Is anyone
thinking of fusing it together with a simulator such as kTechlab?
I should introduce myself while I'm here. I'm a law student with an
undergrad in Comp Sci. I used to do a fair bit of electronics,
although I'm not so good at it, and I've had to kind of give it away
due to my study load. I'm still interested in helping out around the
'space. My main interest at the moment is in computer controlled
fabrication, particularly laser cutting, because I stencil t-shirts
and canvasses as a hobby. If any of you seen Bilal Ghalib's under
US$50 laser cutter, I helped him a little with the server software,
but never got around to building one of my own.
Anyway, Hi!
Bryn.
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andyg (geekscape)
On May 20, 10:22 am, Bryn Davies <curious...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone (de-lurking here),
With a big HackerSpaces meeting on this weekend, I'd like to encourage
all of the lurkers to come out-of-the-closet !
> I used to do a fair bit of electronics, although I'm not so good at it
abilities to be involved.
Note: The Arduino is a starting point to establish common ground
between the members. It isn't the only hardware we'd like to play
with.
> I'm still interested in helping out around the 'space.
Getting the HackerSpace more formally established is a key task.
Don't be shy ... no-one bites (except Aiko).
> My main interest at the moment is in computer controlled
> fabrication, particularly laser cutting, because I stencil t-shirts
> and canvasses as a hobby. If any of you seen Bilal Ghalib's under
> US$50 laser cutter, I helped him a little with the server software,
skills (the more diverse, the better).
http://groups.google.com/group/connected-community-hackerspace/browse_thread/thread/6e67da72354f2266
> but never got around to building one of my own.
I'm sure that we could encourage a few members who are looking for a
project to build this.