[TriEmbed] Fritzing

[The MacDougals]

I have also used Fritzing.  When I was designing my first Arduino shield
(single layer PC board that I etched myself), I started by downloading
Eagle.  Of course, I did not read the manual or watch any tutorials.  I was
incredibly frustrated at the steep learning curve.  I would draw connections
between parts in the schematic capture mode only to find that Eagle did not
actually make a connection between the wire I was drawing and the pin on the
part.  So, I downloaded Fritzing and within a couple of hours, I had my
board designed.  I went back to Eagle when I started using OSH Park to avoid
having to mess with Gerber files.

At that point, I watched some tutorials on the web about Eagle and figured
out what I was doing wrong with my connections (don't use the "wire" tool,
use the "net" tool).

 

---> Paul

 

 

From: TriEmbed [mailto:triembed-bounces at triembed.org] On Behalf Of Frederick
Farzanegan
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 12:01 AM
To: Jon Wolfe
Cc: triembed at triembed.org
Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Fritzing

 

I love Fritzing- I keep my arduino projects in it- exactly for
breadboarding, as I keep tearing apart and building new projects with the
same set of hardware.  I suppose I could buy a bunch more hardware... hmmm.

 

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Jon Wolfe <jonjwolfe at yahoo.com> wrote:

Thanks, Pete, for the fascinating talk! 

 

Fritzing was brought up this evening. I'll agree, I wouldn't want to use it
for PCB layout. I do have a use for it, however: to pre-plan complex
breadboard or protoboard/perfboard layouts. I learned the hard way that
while  Fritzing might be rather limited for some things, but it is a lot
more efficient than repeatedly ripping apart a breadboard circuit because
you didn't plan the layout well enough.

 

Also, on a separate note, you can use Eagle parts libraries in KiCad, but
the process is a little painful (basically you have to run an
exporter/converter script in Eagle).

 

This page has a little on that, toward the bottom:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kicad/FAQ

 

Thanks again,

 

Jon

 


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