I've just thought of a possible way to avoid the rats nest accumulating in the schematic. Design your circuit on Tinkercad's breadboard and then use the Tinkercad schematic to build your circuit in Fritzings schematic. You can then create your PCB from that. I'm going to try it and post a comment on my findings.
Fritzing will drive you bonkers! Your LED problem when trying to wire them together. If you have them joined by a rat's nest wire then you cannot grab and extend the pins, so use the schematic to join them up. On the other hand, if you don't have them joined with a rat's nest line, you can't wire them together -- except from the breadboard as you did -- as all you can do is grab the pin and extend or move it about. So, if you need to extend/move the pins, delete any rat's nest line. If you wan't to wire them together, ensure there is a rat's nest line. HTH Cheers, Norm.
Thanks for the explanation. Normally I would put all the components on the breadboard even if they have an extension wire. It was trying to get the string of LEDS wired off the breadboard that through me. I can see that makes sense now. You are right about Fritzing driving you bonkers. It's breadboard view is a great idea, but it can be frustrating.
@@PenguinTutor Indeed. The breadboard view is the most useful view. About 90% of the time. By the way, net labels have a bug. Create on, call it net_1. Duplicate it and the two are connected, as you would expect. Duplicate again, rename to net_2. They stay connected to net_1. :-( Cheers.
great tutorial. adafruit have alot of things normal parents couldn't afford if their child was into microcontrollers. they're more expensive than lego. I had to get a bno055 imu sensor and I tried my damnedest not to pay them 120cad for something that weighs less than a gram. I tried to get them from China first but imu and other such things are eing bought up by large corporations because there's an imu shortage. same with the node that makes most atmel based arduino chips. Nanos cost more than esp32 modules now.
The chip shortage is having a huge impact everywhere. It's sad when children wanting to learn cannot afford many of the useful tools and components that should be reasonably priced. I hope the situation improves soon.
@@PenguinTutor I agree with you 100 percent. Please don't think I'm tooting my own horn here because I'm not. I spent the last year or so buying over 5000cad worth of microcontrollers, sensors, displays, breadboards, every kind of motor and wire plus dmms and a soldering station plus so much more I can't even think. Like 6 or 7000 different types of leds (I collect them anyway hehe) and (anonymously) donated it all to our local makerspace which is non profit but there is a fee for all programs, even ones for youth. They have to stay in business. I was poor growing up and being a retired and somewhat young (with an engineering degree I never used) I've gotten back into it hard the past few years because I have so much time on my hands so I decided to make it so some kid didn't have to feel left out making excuses for being poor when it comes to fun educational activities being offered. I am not rich either. Now adafruit on the other hand would still be 50 to 80 percent more expensive for a module, sensor, 10 dollar usd single 2 pin dip leds. I respect Ada for all the software she's written but not even she's charging 15 dollars for the same ultrasonic sensor you can get for 2 beans a piece in a pack of 5. She's rich enough. There comes a point when someone who is suppose to be all open source and for the maker community and stem education to say I've made enough millions and will make more millions even if I drop prices. Having alot of money is great and I don't begrudge anyone who knows how to make a buck and get ahead but how many zeros extra do you need on your bank statement brother. I ve been know to ask her and that smug looking middle aged hipster why they have never had at least a cheaper line of products like the way all hardware gets cheaper over time. It's depriving kids from falling in love with engineering and this world needs more engineers than anything else and it's not taking food of her table. I was very polite and I think she said something like yeah....nope and he said next new item. Aging hipsters who think they're still cool hahaha.
Your tutorial is great, but I wouldn't recomend Fritzing. Very unintuitive, I had a session to make a simple circuit and I gave up. Keeps placing wires everywhere, at random you cannot extend legs in resistors, delete something from schematic, add it again and watch the magic happen, all of a sudden it is shorting components. Not recomended.
Fritzing certainly has it's limitations, but it can be a good start for someone creating their first PCBs. I would advise those wanting to beyond the basics to look at a more professional tool such as KiCAD, but the learning curve does tend to be steeper for new users. I have created a separate video series which covers the use of KiCAD czcams.com/play/PLlM9OOPrciP6lTv9LpCeBT1ZvlgHbtoNA.html&si=BAendJH6ksCE1Jol
Perfect tutorial. Thank you for making this video
I've just thought of a possible way to avoid the rats nest accumulating in the schematic. Design your circuit on Tinkercad's breadboard and then use the Tinkercad schematic to build your circuit in Fritzings schematic. You can then create your PCB from that. I'm going to try it and post a comment on my findings.
Fritzing will drive you bonkers!
Your LED problem when trying to wire them together. If you have them joined by a rat's nest wire then you cannot grab and extend the pins, so use the schematic to join them up.
On the other hand, if you don't have them joined with a rat's nest line, you can't wire them together -- except from the breadboard as you did -- as all you can do is grab the pin and extend or move it about.
So, if you need to extend/move the pins, delete any rat's nest line. If you wan't to wire them together, ensure there is a rat's nest line.
HTH
Cheers,
Norm.
Thanks for the explanation. Normally I would put all the components on the breadboard even if they have an extension wire. It was trying to get the string of LEDS wired off the breadboard that through me. I can see that makes sense now.
You are right about Fritzing driving you bonkers. It's breadboard view is a great idea, but it can be frustrating.
@@PenguinTutor Indeed. The breadboard view is the most useful view. About 90% of the time. By the way, net labels have a bug.
Create on, call it net_1. Duplicate it and the two are connected, as you would expect.
Duplicate again, rename to net_2. They stay connected to net_1. :-(
Cheers.
great tutorial. adafruit have alot of things normal parents couldn't afford if their child was into microcontrollers. they're more expensive than lego. I had to get a bno055 imu sensor and I tried my damnedest not to pay them 120cad for something that weighs less than a gram. I tried to get them from China first but imu and other such things are eing bought up by large corporations because there's an imu shortage. same with the node that makes most atmel based arduino chips. Nanos cost more than esp32 modules now.
The chip shortage is having a huge impact everywhere.
It's sad when children wanting to learn cannot afford many of the useful tools and components that should be reasonably priced.
I hope the situation improves soon.
@@PenguinTutor I agree with you 100 percent. Please don't think I'm tooting my own horn here because I'm not. I spent the last year or so buying over 5000cad worth of microcontrollers, sensors, displays, breadboards, every kind of motor and wire plus dmms and a soldering station plus so much more I can't even think. Like 6 or 7000 different types of leds (I collect them anyway hehe) and (anonymously) donated it all to our local makerspace which is non profit but there is a fee for all programs, even ones for youth. They have to stay in business. I was poor growing up and being a retired and somewhat young (with an engineering degree I never used) I've gotten back into it hard the past few years because I have so much time on my hands so I decided to make it so some kid didn't have to feel left out making excuses for being poor when it comes to fun educational activities being offered. I am not rich either.
Now adafruit on the other hand would still be 50 to 80 percent more expensive for a module, sensor, 10 dollar usd single 2 pin dip leds. I respect Ada for all the software she's written but not even she's charging 15 dollars for the same ultrasonic sensor you can get for 2 beans a piece in a pack of 5. She's rich enough. There comes a point when someone who is suppose to be all open source and for the maker community and stem education to say I've made enough millions and will make more millions even if I drop prices. Having alot of money is great and I don't begrudge anyone who knows how to make a buck and get ahead but how many zeros extra do you need on your bank statement brother. I ve been know to ask her and that smug looking middle aged hipster why they have never had at least a cheaper line of products like the way all hardware gets cheaper over time. It's depriving kids from falling in love with engineering and this world needs more engineers than anything else and it's not taking food of her table. I was very polite and I think she said something like yeah....nope and he said next new item. Aging hipsters who think they're still cool hahaha.
Your tutorial is great, but I wouldn't recomend Fritzing. Very unintuitive, I had a session to make a simple circuit and I gave up. Keeps placing wires everywhere, at random you cannot extend legs in resistors, delete something from schematic, add it again and watch the magic happen, all of a sudden it is shorting components. Not recomended.
Fritzing certainly has it's limitations, but it can be a good start for someone creating their first PCBs.
I would advise those wanting to beyond the basics to look at a more professional tool such as KiCAD, but the learning curve does tend to be steeper for new users.
I have created a separate video series which covers the use of KiCAD
czcams.com/play/PLlM9OOPrciP6lTv9LpCeBT1ZvlgHbtoNA.html&si=BAendJH6ksCE1Jol