I work in Breadboard view the most because I’m not a wizened old electronics guru who can draw schematics in my sleep. The default is the Breadboard view ( below). Three Viewsįritzing can show your project in three views. Fritzing is cross-platform and also runs on Mac OS X and MS Windows. You can download and install it, or you might be using a good Linux distro like Mint or Ubuntu that already includes it and keeps up with current releases. You can browse the Projects page, and download project files without creating an account. This takes you to a login page on when you create an account you can upload and share your projects. Fritzing lets inexperienced electronics noobs make great-looking schematics and circuit diagrams, and even design and build their own printed circuit boards.įritzing is designed to encourage sharing, and has a “Share online” command in the File menu.
On the software side check out the new Fritzing project. Arduino, Beagleboard, and Raspberry Pi give us hundreds of inexpensive hardware components to play with.
This is the best time to get into electronics because we have an abundance of high-quality hardware for cheap and great software for free. It is a powerful tool for making schematics, prototyping circuits, and designing printed circuit boards.
Fritzing is the sophisticated new electronics application with the funny name.
