<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">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.<br><br>Ron C.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"
size="2"> On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:25 AM, The MacDougals <paulmacd@acm.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6090890274"><style>#yiv6090890274 #yiv6090890274 --
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#yiv6090890274 </style><div><div class="yiv6090890274WordSection1"><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">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.</span></div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">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).</span></div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">---> Paul</span></div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv6090890274yqt4278593125" id="yiv6090890274yqt34182"><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> TriEmbed [mailto:triembed-bounces@triembed.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Frederick Farzanegan<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 14, 2014 12:01 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Jon Wolfe<br clear="none"><b>Cc:</b> triembed@triembed.org<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [TriEmbed] Fritzing</span></div><div
class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"> </div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal">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.</div></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274yqt4278593125" id="yiv6090890274yqt61226"><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"> </div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal">On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Jon Wolfe <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jonjwolfe@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jonjwolfe@yahoo.com">jonjwolfe@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Thanks, Pete, for the fascinating talk! </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">
</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">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.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">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).</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">
</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">This page has a little on that, toward the bottom:</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kicad/FAQ">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kicad/FAQ</a></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Thanks again,</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Jon</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv6090890274MsoNormal"
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