[Systems Engineering Teachers' Mailing List] Free PCB Design Software

[Neville YOUNG]

Hi Everyone,

I have been investigating a free PCB design package called Fritzing. The following is a description from their website.



Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics. We are creating a software tool, a community website and services in the spirit of Processing<http://processing.org/> and Arduino<http://arduino.cc/>, fostering an ecosystem that allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom, and layout and manufacture professional pcbs.



You can design the PCB by either drawing the schematic or by building a Breadboard design on the screen. It may be just what some students will find as suitable for their projects. They also have completed projects available for free to download, although not all of them are described in English.



Their web address is:-



http://fritzing.org/



Well worth having a look at.



Cheers

Neville Young