The digrams - Fritzing

I use a program called Fritzing to make all my diagrams that you can find in my postings.

Its open source and 100% free, I find that Fritzing is probably the easiest way to draw up circuit diagrams, real world breadboard views and even circuit designs which you can use to make your project enter the real physical world!

You can find the download link to your operating systems here LINK, they do ask for a donation just like the Arduino IDE, it all goes in to helping the program develop further so please do donate if you can!



Another very interesting part of Fritzing is the ability to have the boards that you design made for you for a cost, the boards are professional and look awesome (sadly I don't have one yet but I have seen them first hand)

*Lets have a look*

So all I have done is open up an inbuilt example that comes with the install just to show you the concepts of the software.

Breadboard view:

First up lets have a look at the breadboard views. I use these in my postings as they show all the components and connection wires in a more "human" viewable way, plus for those who are not clued up with schematic it shows a "how it should look" view.

 

 Schematic view:

Next up is the schematic view, as you can see in the picture below it is exactly the same as the breadboard just now its the "paper version". Schematics show the connections and components using there diagrams.

 

PCB:

And finally the PCB view. With this you can print out the films which you can use to develop your own PCB at home.  If you don't fancy using the etching chemicals in your own home why not send them of to be made else at Fritzing!