Fritzing For Inventors Take Your Electronics Project From Prototype To Product Simon Monk by Simon Monk 9780071844635, 0071844635 instant download after payment.

For many makers and electronics hobbyists, the idea of using computer-aided design (CAD) software conjures up images of obscure and difficult-to-use programs that might need a week’s training course before you can do anything useful with them. Fritzing is not like that. Fritzing has been designed and has developed for makers, hobbyists, and inventors, not for professional electronic engineers.

This high-speed tour of Fritzing will give you an idea of the breadth of this tool. It is useful just to know what features are available, even if you are not going to use them right away. Many of the things mentioned in the following short summary will be dealt with in considerably greater detail later in the book, so please don’t feel cheated.

Fritzing

Fritzing is so easy to use that many people use it to sketch out breadboard layouts or draw schematic diagrams, as this can be accomplished almost as easily as with pen and paper. This ease of use does not mean that Fritzing is only of use for simple example projects. It is perfectly possible to design quite complex projects with Fritzing, without having to compromise on the design. The key advantages of Fritzing over other CAD tools are as follows:

•   It is free to use (although a donation is appreciated).

•   It is simple and intuitive.

•   Fritzing includes many libraries of components from popular suppliers such as Adafruit, Sparkfun, and Snootlabs.

•   It is suitable for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, and Spark Core projects.

•   Fritzing is an integrated printed circuit board (PCB) production service. Or export the files and use another service.