I put on my thinking cap (made of tin foil, of course) and noticed that the color for unconnected was red and I wondered if some graphic was covering the whole board. There was nothing on the web about this, except one obscure reference with no answer. I spend the next 20 hours trying to track down what had gone wrong with Eagle, Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator and Fritzing. I wanted to see if the part is the right size and how it looks in the Fritzing Breadboard view, so I connected two of the 48 connections and then added it into the Breadboard view. I exported the SVG graphics from Eagle using an ULP and ultimately brought the graphics into the Fritzing part editor. I was building a 48 connector Fritzing model for the upcoming SwitchDoc Labs product SunAir (a Solar Power controller / sun tracker and phone charger). I’m documenting them here to save others time that may be doing the same thing.
Here are the three problems that cost me a lot of time in the process. I found the editor and process clumsy, but ultimately successful. Here is a SparkFun Tutorial that does a pretty good job. The purpose of this note is to save others time with the Fritzing New Part Editing tool. I like schematics, but I understand the value of these breadboard diagrams and add them to all of our documentation to help beginners over the hump of the learning curve.įor example, here is a Fritzing diagram for the SwitchDoc Labs External WatchDog Timer: External WatchDog Timer Connection to Raspberry Pi B+ Fritzing diagrams do make it easier to build breadboards using extant products. If you use a simulator, you don't have to worry about things going haywire, such as having a dead Raspberry Pi on your hands or starting a small fire.Problems: New Part Generation with Fritzingįritzing ( ) is an open source design package that makes electronics more available and readable, especially for the beginner and maker. You can switch out a component or add a new one with a click of a button.
Modification is simple and painless with a simulator.Simulators also allow developers who don’t have access to hardware or resources needed for testing purposes but still have an idea they want to implement right away.Also, since it is entirely digital, you can share your designs with your friends/colleagues to take a look at the problem with a fresh pair of eyes. Should you get stumped during the process of iterating, a simulator will help you look at the problem in a completely different way.You can add expensive components and operate on a larger scale than you would normally be able to.
A Raspberry Pi simulator helps you work outside your budget.
A simulator has several advantages that can be useful in your electronics project.
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