Hi everyone,
It’s that time of the year again, and we would like to take the opportunity to re-cap what the last year has brought. So here’s the Fritzmas challenge 2011: You show us what you did, and we give you what we did.
How you can win
Take a look at what you’ve built with Fritzing this year, and snap a couple of photos/screenshots. If you think it’s an interesting concept, a technical masterpiece, or just fun, we want to see it all.
Then either upload it to our projects gallery or mail them to info (ät) fritzing.org. (Also, you must agree that we may publish what you send us (if you prefer, anonymized).
Deadline is Sunday, December 18th.
The prizes
From all submissions, we will pick three winners. These will be awarded with the latest Fritzing developments:
The 1st prize is one of the all-new Fritzing Super-Upgrade Kits, to be launched later this year.
The 2nd prize is a free Fritzing Fab PCB production for your project (one copy of your board), through our Fritzing Fab service that we launched in July.
The 3rd prize is the all-new Fritzing Edgy Motor, the first in a series of Fritzing breakout boards with a new, breadboard-friendly approach.
We’re very much looking forward to your submissions!
Your Fritzing team
Last weekend we had the pleasure to be invited to the Create. Art and Technology festival in Berlin.
André held a talk about »Frizting – creative electronics for the rest of us« and we gave two intense Fritzing workshops in which people could learn the use of Arduino and Fritzing.
The conference was initiated and organised by our ever-enthusiastic friends Anton Mezhiborskiy from TINKER SOUP and Stefan Canditt from FORMULOR. Great job, guys! Talks on prototyping, wearables, materials, playing, and sensing gave the right inputs and visitors could join workshops such as lasercutting with vvvv, soft circuits, playing with CUBELETS or – of course – Fritzing.
It was great to meet so many interesting and interested people and we enjoyed this time a lot. Our special treat was to meet several people from the Fritzing forums - it’s so much nicer to meet in person! Some of them even showed off their beautiful Fritzing Fab creations.
We are all looking forward to Create. Art and Technology 2012 (hint, hint)!
We arrived on a sunny morning at the train station in Elmshorn (a beautiful village in the north of Hamburg). Martin Hieronymus, who teaches there and invited us, picked us up and took us to the Nordakademie. Sixteen business computer science students already waited to get in touch with electronics and Fritzing. André started by introducing Fritzing and what it is all about. He explained the concept of physical computing and tangible user interfaces, and moved on to the basics of electronics.
Many students had already worked with electronics theoretically and practically before, but most frustrated by the complexity of a basic setup. So as usual it was great to see the excitement of the students when they got their first little led to blink in no time.
Fritzing in the teaching context was doing a wonderful job, and this way everybody learns Fritzing by learning Arduino and electronics.
On the second day, the students developed their own project ideas, for example media-controllers, musical instruments, a binary clock and even an LED Pong.
They successfully transferred their projects to the Fritzing breadboard view and also made the schematics. The last step for this day was to make a PCB layout out of it and get to know the production export and Fritzing Fab process. The feedback of the students concerning the software was amazing. They liked Fritzing a lot and had some very useful ideas to improve the workflow.
Concluding, I have to say it was a trip I don’t want to miss. Martin treated us very hospitably and we are looking forward to return to the Nordakademie.
You can find some more impressions on our Flickr-Stream.
Dear Mac Fritzing Users,
With the advent of OS X10.7 and the soon-to-be-released Qt 4.8 (Qt is the underlying GUI framework for Fritzing), building for OS X10.4 and/or PPC will become an extra chore. How many of you out there still need Fritzing to support these platforms?
Thanks,
Comments from the old blog
- natm # 29. Okt. 2011, 21:52
Lots of schools still have labs full of PPC kit, I wonder how many of them are using Fritzing?
- tuxilein # 5. Nov. 2011, 12:04
I am still working on an old G4 MDD which is my primary workstation. Unlike maybe other users i am prepared to compile the software myself. I'll be glad to help with building and compiling for Debian/Linux-PPC and Mac OS X/PPC if needed.
The Fritzing Starter Kit has been our first attempt in late 2009 to try to generate funding for Fritzing by ourselves. We weren’t sure at all whether it would work out – luckily it turned out to be a big motivation for us and to continue along this way. The kit is very popular and has just crossed 1500 sales!
It’s great to see that our customers are coming from all over the world, from individuals, companies, universities, and secondary schools. Sometimes we get mails from our customers telling us how they are using the kits for classes, which is a great way for us to learn how to improve the kit as well as the Fritzing software.
If you haven’t noticed, the kit is also now available through our resellers tinkersoup and watterott, so that you can get some other gadgets with your order.
To commemorate this nice event, Stefan Hermann has built us a little sales clock that alerts everyone in the IXDS office about a new sale with a nice ka-chinggg (we’ll upload this project soon). Stefan has also been working on a kit update so that it now contains a piezo speaker, a temperature sensor, big resistors and a zener diode for a lot of new project ideas. The next thing will be an “extension kit”, stay tuned!
