You can click and drag these components into order though it might be easier to just start over beginning with the schematic view. A schematic is a symbolic representation of the electrical circuit. You should see a jumble of components that you added to the breadboard view. On the tool tab select the schematic view.

You can rotate components through right clicking on them and also change their values. Click on the wire (or right click) and change the wire color. Click on the ends of components or on holes on the breadboard and drag wires to connection points. Just make a fantasy circuit to get some experience (it does not have to actually work or be electrically sound). This is the size of the breadboard in our project kit.Ĭlick and drag some components from the Core Parts on the right hand side and attach them to your breadboard. Go to the ‘Inspector’ box on the bottom right and change the size of the breadboard to half+. Go to the Raspberry icon to open your main menu and open the Fritzing application.Ĭlick on the Breadboard tab to open the breadboard workspace. It is used to illustrate and document projects as well as a tool to have actual PCBs manufactured at low cost. This activity will will focus on one of the apps I have found to be most useful (besides the Arduino IDE already covered).įritzing is an application that lets you design circuits, printed circuit boards (PCB) and popular hardware. Many more apps can be downloaded and installed from the Web just look for Linux and particularly Debian compatibility.

The Raspbian Stretch distribution comes with dozens of apps installed like the Libreoffice Suite for documents, spreadsheets, drawings and presentations. Now I’ll load your breadboard svg and compare something (one of the rectangles probably) between the Illustrator and Inkscape versions and see if I can figure out a scale factor to convert one to the other (I know how to do that in Inkscape if not Illustrator!) so I can scale the connectors that I copied across properly.The Raspberry Pi as a personal computer can run literally thousands of applications (apps). I think we are talking different DPIs, the svg standard used to be drawing units are 90DPI (Inkscape 0.9.1 and less) it then changed to 96DPI (this being svg drawing units, not display DPI which I think is what the 300 number probably is.) The original Illustrator (which many of the core parts are in) was 72DPI (to match pt) and I don’t know what the latest Illustrator does, (maybe 90DPI against Inkscapes 96?) I have corrected the two connectors (and will check pcb because it is probably wrong too!), you are correct, I must have misread the mechanical drawing because both were wrong. I check with lower DPI, but problem still the same…

All I can say, that’s not DPI problem, I edit in 300dpi.

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