Just a little hint for the people with Dyschromatopsie (thanks to André) :)

We’re very excited to announce that the Edgy Motor Control is now in store and ready to ship. We’ve been working on this first Edgy for quite some time now (actually Stefan was), and we believe it will further simplify the prototyping phase of projects that require controlling DC motors or a stepper motor.

This breakout board was designed to perfectly fit on a breadboard and reduce cabling to a strict minimum. Adding motors to your project can be considered as an additional block module and no longer an engineering nightmare. We also took care of posting example projects and the necessary code to be used with Arduino to control a stepper motor or two DC motors on our projects page.

The Edgy Motor Control comes assembled and ready to be used out of the box, you can read more details about it on the product page on our shop and place your orders immediately.

We all love the Raspberry Pi but some things are missing. A real time clock for example. Fritzing user Karl Lattimer just started a Kickstarter to add some cool functionality – the HotPi.

Karl is using Fritzing to document his project and our Fritzing Fab service to prototype the PCB.

The small sized PCB (56x35.4mm) is designed to sit on top of the GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) port and provides:

– infrared receiving and transmitting – an RGB LED to lit up in every color – fan speed control to cool the Pi down – the real time clock

The Kit is suited with THT (through hole technology) parts, the PCB and will be shipped as a kit.

And of course it will come with an example program to demonstrate the use and functionality, too.

To support the project go to Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/582604098/hotpi :)

Wir lieben den Raspbery Pi, aber ein paar Dinge vermissen wir schmerzlich. Eine echte Uhr z.B., die auch weiter tickt, wenn der Strom weg ist. Fritzing Benutzer Karl Lattimer hat gerade einen Kickstarter gestartet um den Pi um ein paar coole Features zu erweitern: HotPi.

Karl benutzt Fritzing um sein Projekt zu dokumentieren und unseren Fritzing Fab Service um Prototypen seiner Leiterplatte herzustellen.

Die kleine Platine (56x35.4mm) passt auf den GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) Port und bietet:

– Infrarot Sende- und Empfangsmodul – eine RGB LED – Lüfteranschluss mit Geschwindigkeitskontrolle – eine Echtzeit-Uhr

Das Kit zum selber löten besteht aus einfach zu montierenden THT (through hole technology) Komponenten und der Platine.

Natürlich gibt es auch ein passendes Programm zum Testen der Funktionen.

Das Projekt kann man auf Kickstarter unterstützen: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/582604098/hotpi :)

En: We want to support you with the most beautiful products around Physical Computing but that is – of course – not enough – you eat with your eyes first! But we had the problem of how to get round circles out of our black component foam? Since our housekeeping robot stopped to drink he is very bad in cutting with scissors.  The weekend shopping tour solved the problem: a fine biscuit cutter looked perfectly suited for the job. Some grinding work later and our first DIY component foam cutter was invented and is now cutting the perfect bed for our soon released Mini-Kits and EDGYs. (But pssst. It is still secret!)

De: Da wollen wir Euch im den schönsten Produkten rund um das Physical Computing versorgen, doch das allein ist uns natürlich nicht genug – das Auge isst schließlich mit! Doch wir standen vor dem Problem, wie wir den eckigen schwarzen Steckschaum in unsere runden Behälter bekommen sollten. Seit dem unser Hausarbeits-Roboter nicht mehr trinke, zittern ihm leider die Hände zu stark, als dass er gut mit der Schere umgehen könnte. Der Wocheneinkauf brachte die Lösung: eine feine Küchen-Stapelform – den »Perfekte Dinner« Fans sicherlich gut bekannt – drängte sich förmlich auf. Etwas Schleifarbeit später und unsere erste DIY-Steckschaum-Ausstechform war geboren und bereitet das perfekte Lager für unsere demnächst erscheinenden Mini-Kits und EDGYs. (Das ist aber noch geheim!)

Hello Fritzing Fans,

We’re using images from a PCB design by Bob64 (who we thank for giving us permission) to illustrate the new DRC (Design Rules Check). On the left is the DRC from version 0.7.9 and earlier. In the middle is the same file using the DRC from version 0.7.10.  The image on the right is a close-up from the upper region of the middle image so you can see the new highlighting.

The new DRC has no trouble dealing with diagonal lines or rotated pinheaders. The tradeoff is that it is quite a bit slower than the old DRC (it puts up a progress bar while in process), but is much more accurate.

This means the results are much more specific, and we now display these in a modeless dialog. In other words, you can work with the PCB layout while the highlighting remains visible–you can see where you need to make changes, and make them on the spot. Here is what the dialog looks like after we run the DRC on the board illustrated above:

When you click on an entry in the list, the referenced parts are selected, thus making it easier to see where the problem is.

Hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed building it.

Cheers,

The Fritzing Team.