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Fritzing with the Propeller Platform

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
edited 2011-06-16 10:28 in Propeller 1
So someone turned me onto "Fritzing" a couple weeks ago...

The interface is easy to use, and is designed to take you from breadboard to PCB level.
Fritzing has a Propeller Chip in it's core library, but I thought that it would be nice to have a Gadget Gangster Propeller Platform as well so I've created one and attached it to this post.

PropellerPlatform.zip

It isn't perfect, but very functional. Feel free to clean it up if you are a fritzing expert. :)

OBC

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Comments

  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2011-02-27 20:11
    I just downloaded this. It is brilliant. Very simple and easy to use. I love the way you can design a board in either the breadboard, schematic or PCB part and the other parts get updated automatically.
  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2011-02-28 01:46
    I like the way that an Arduino inspired idea has a 666KB download !

    ADDIT

    At least the final zip size was 667KB
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2011-02-28 07:20
    Thanks guys! I'll admit that compared to the size of the A
    os in the package, I kept the size of the PPGL pretty big. I wanted something I could see easily. :)

    OBC
  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2011-02-28 13:39
    Don't get me wrong, I have Xilinx stuff on the PC that chews up GBs.

    It was the chain of three numbers (between 5 and 7) that amused me.
  • SSteveSSteve Posts: 808
    edited 2011-03-24 12:37
    Ok, I'm lame. I can't figure out how to install this with Fritzing 0.5.2. I tried Parts -> Import but it won't let me select the .fzp file. I tried copying the files into their respective folders under my user folder, but it doesn't show up in the "Mine" bin. Any tips?
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2011-03-24 13:47
    I just installed the Application on my office machine, copied the file to the same folder as I extracted Fritzing, then used "Part" and "Import". Worked fine.

    What OS version of Fritzing are you using? I'm using PC's here.

    OBC
  • wjsteelewjsteele Posts: 697
    edited 2011-03-24 15:02
    Nice find! I'll have to play around with that a bit more.

    Bill
  • davidsaundersdavidsaunders Posts: 1,559
    edited 2011-03-24 19:57
    Wow. I do not due toner transfers very often because of the difficulty of using other tools. This is great, I will be back to making PCBs.
  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2011-03-25 01:54
    I have used toner transfer for all of my PCBs. I had little success at first but got better and better. After a year or so I started to get slightly worse again, I do not know if it is me trying too hard / not hard enough or if I am just doing more and more trickier things.

    I will have to try photo etching at some time.
  • StefanL38StefanL38 Posts: 2,292
    edited 2011-03-25 10:43
    very cool !! wow! Dr_Acula is right: brilliant !
    very good combination of manual and automatic drawing schematics, bredmatics (I mean bread-board schematics and PCB-layouting.
    It might not compete with a professional PCB-layout autorouter but perfect for beginners. Very intuitive. (and who knows - can't compete with professional software - yet)

    It is really fun to use it!
    Give it too years more development and it might be the new hobby-standard.

    best regards

    Stefan
  • SSteveSSteve Posts: 808
    edited 2011-03-25 11:23
    Oldbitcollector (Jeff) wrote: »
    I just installed the Application on my office machine, copied the file to the same folder as I extracted Fritzing, then used "Part" and "Import". Worked fine.

    It turns out Part -> Import in Fritzing 0.5.2 is looking for a file with the extension fzpz. An fzpz file is just a zip file with the fzp and svg files. Changing the extension of the zip file in the first post to fzpz was enough to make it work.

    I got confused because when I tried making and exporting a part, I accidentally selected Export under the bin menu (the folder icon in the parts bin) instead of under the part menu (the LED icon in the parts bin) and got an fzbz file which is a file containing everything in the bin.
  • EGMonoEGMono Posts: 31
    edited 2011-06-15 19:13
    Oldbitcollector (Jeff) wrote: »
    So someone turned me onto "Fritzing" a couple weeks ago...


    It isn't perfect, but very functional. Feel free to clean it up if you are a fritzing expert. :)

    OBC

    Not an expert, but I did manage to copy the pin descriptions from the D40 Propeller chip and add them to your board, with a few odds and ends labels as well. Take a look and if it looks good I'd like to upload your board to Fritzing (maybe get it included in the next core revision?)

    Propeller Platform USB.zip
    zip
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    Propeller Platform USB.zip
    667K
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2011-06-15 19:29
    Nice update!!

    OBC
  • EGMonoEGMono Posts: 31
    edited 2011-06-16 09:34
    Thanks. I'll post it to Fritzing.org tonight... then start collecting the necessary graphics for the Fritzing model of the Spinneret. :)
  • yetiyeti Posts: 819
    edited 2011-06-16 09:45
    Is there a fritzed Demo-Board somewhere in the wild wild net?
  • EGMonoEGMono Posts: 31
    edited 2011-06-16 10:28
    Not one I've been able to locate, but would be interested in if it were discovered.
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