[TriEmbed] Fritzing

[R Craig]

Another great use for Fritzing is when writing education classes.  It does a great job of illustrating for your written labs what the breadboard connections should look like.  For my beginning Arduino class I included schematics and Fritzing pics for each lab so students could get used to the schematics and would also have something to refer to if they pick up the labs again at home and need to breadboard them.

Ron C.





On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:25 AM, The MacDougals <paulmacd at acm.org> wrote:
 
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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