A new fritzing discussion forum
The good old forum that has lasted us since 2009 has finally been replaced by a shiny new one. Please head over to https://forum.fritzing.org and help make it such a friendly and lively place as with the old one.
We have selected the fantastic Discourse as the new forum's engine, that we found to do a great job at nurturing a community in places like OpenFrameworks or Particle. It's interesting to see how something as simple as a discussion board has evolved since back in 2009. Tools like phpBB provided a ton of features, but it totally overloaded the user interface. Discourse also provides a lot of functionality, but it's all focused on keeping your participation in discussions simple and easy. Plus it helps with community building by letting you build up your reputation.
You can use your existing fritzing.org login, but your profile will start blank–we didn't find a good way to migrate the old forum content, because the systems are too different. You can find the old forum's archive here, and it will remain a valuable resource.
New Fritzing version 0.9.2b released
Hi everyone, here's a nice little Fritzing update!
New Parts
This one brings you a bunch of the latest new popular parts, several of them created in collaboration with their (hardware) makers:- RaspberryPi 2, the new version of the Model B
- WeIO, the web of things platform (thanks to WeIO)
- RaspIO Duino microcontroller (thanks to RaspIO)
- DQuid IO microcontroller (thanks to DQuid)
- STM32 Nucleo microcontroller (thanks to Colin Grant)
- SODAQ Mbili microcontroller (thanks to SODAQ)
- Netduino Plus2 microcontroller (thanks to Colin Grant)
- SIM928A GSM module (thanks to Pierrot)
- Large 8x8 LED matrix (the one used in the Fritzing Creator Kits)
- WS2812, the popular RGB SMD LED
- Plus various part bug fixes to pin headers, FET, Arduino FIO & Yun
New Translations
- Romanian, thanks to titus08
"Eyes of the IoT" workshop at Mobile World Congress
Our colleagues at design studio IXDS will hold a workshop during Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona. Together with tech company Rambus and facilitator MLOVE, the workshop will investigate the opportunities of Rambus' new image sensors. They are so tiny, inexpensive yet powerful, that they can be integrated into almost any IoT device.
The workshop will take place on coming Monday, March 2nd. If you're lucky enough to have a ticket for MWC, the workshop itself is free. Just RSVP to the mail address in the invitation.
Build a Tinkercup, an IoT starter project for your office desk
Tinkercup is a coffee cup connected to the internet that shows the user the temperature of his cup and how many cups he is drinking per day. The project was created by our colleagues at IXDS for the fresh German edition of WIRED.
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You can build your own Tinkercup with the kit that’s available now from Tinkersoup Berlin for 39,90 € -- including the Spark Core.
The latest issue of WIRED also features an interview about IoT and the Tinkercup with the founder of IXDS, Reto Wettach and managing partner Nancy Birkhölzer.
Get yours, connect it, drink coffee and share your temperature with other - and most importantly, start tinkering!
It's Fritzmas! New Fritzing "Code View" release, and a little present
Dear Friends of Fritzing!
It's the time of the year again and we are happy to announce a new release featuring a brand new "Code View" that allows you to program and upload to your microcontroller straight from Fritzing. To celebrate this, we give you a nice discount on the perfect christmas gift, the Fritzing Creator Kit. Use the discount code FRITZMAS14 to get the kit for 89€ (instead of 95€) and make someone (or yourself) really happy this year. :) Read more on the release below. This is the new "Code View"! It lets you write your code directly inside Fritzing, and even upload it from there to your microcontroller. It even has a serial monitor. :) We love this, because it makes it even easier for beginners to get started with interactive electronics. And for more advanced people it's great because you can now keep your code together with the matching circuit--no more confusion! You can also link to files somewhere else on your hard drive, for example in your local Arduino folder. When the link gets broken, or you just send someone your Fritzing file, don't worry, because there's always a backup stored in the Fritzing fzz file. Right now the upload functionality supports Arduino and PICAXE, but more can be added as long as the platform's IDE has a command line upload option. The new release also brings with it many new parts, many kindly sponsored by their respective makers. Now you can easily document your circuits and fabricate shields/caps/hats etc. for:- Seeeduino, Grove, and more, thanks to SeeedStudio
- Intel Galileo Gen 2, Edison, and more, supported by Intel Software
- Raspberry Pi B+ and RPi Hat template
- Pinocc.io Scout, Backpack supported by Pinocc.io
- LightBlue Bean, supported by Punchthrough
- UDOO Duo/Quad, supported by Udoo
- Touch Board, supported by Bare Conductive
- blueIOT, thanks to Guido Burger
- More SparkFun parts, thanks to SparkFun