We have some exciting news for our beloved fab service users!
Finally you get a black silkscreen on both sides of your boards for no extra cost! PCBs with submitted top and bottom silkscreen layers will be fabbed with both layers, as simple as that! By the way since release 0.8.0 you can flip your board in PCB view and work on the bottom layer copper and silkscreen as if you had the board in your hand.
We dropped the tracked post shipping in Europe and rest of the world because it was too slow and the tracking was inefficient. Instead, you will be able to choose between UPS Standard, which is much faster, insured and trackable in real time, and UPS Express for your shipments in Europe. Customers outside of Europe will be able to choose the very affordable but untracked and slow traditional postal shipping or the 48h Express shipping service. Check out our pricing page for the new fees.
We added a "Billing Address" field to your order page for the people who need to have their orders shipped to a different address than the billing address.
Calandria is the winner of the Fritzing Goodie Contest!
Finally, the last parts arrived today in the morning. I soldered all goodie contest finalists and tried them out.
Calandria is actually a synthesizer. Two potentiometers are influencing via a LED and light depending resistor a the outputted bird like sound. In the end the PCB size, number of components and cuteness of the product were the winning properties.
Congratulations to the other two finalists, too. Both projects are quiet amazing:
Touch my piano is sounding pretty cool, like if you would play on an old saw. It is fun and I caught myself not being able to stop. The imperial march was sounding fantastic, even if Jonathan couldn’t hear, what I was playing ;)
The Fritzing Amplifier is like a module, extending the abilities of (e.g.) the Arduino Board. It amplifies the output to drive a real 8Ohm speaker and the outputted sound has a much higher quality. If you ask me, each Arduino-Kit should contain it.
Thank you all participants for your great ideas and keep on making!
Many many of you loving Fritzing fans asked us to extend the deadline because holidays didn’t leave a lot of time to work on your submission, so the new deadline is July 29th at noon, Central European time.
We are very eagerly looking forward to discover your submissions.
(Deutsch - English version below)
Entwickle ein Giveaway-Projekt für unsere Fritzing-Kits und gewinne 500 Euro!
Es soll ein:
interessantes
nützliches
unkompliziert
überlichtschnelles Dreh-Blink-Sound-Krach-Dings-Bums entstehen, dass wir dann in unseren Kits verschicken.
Benutzt werden können:
Basiskomponenten wie LEDs, Button, Batterieclips, Piezos, ICs, die nicht programmiert werden müssen (z.B. NE-555)
Platine mit bis zu 8cm2 Größe
Um am Contest teil zu nehmen lade Deine Projektidee als Fritzing-Datei bis zum 11. July 29. July(12 Uhr CET) in die Fritzing Projektgalerie. Es muss unter Creative Commons Lizenz – Share Alike veröffentlicht werden und in den Tags muss das Schlüsselwort »PCBgoodie« eingetragen werden.
Wichtig ist die Vollständigkeit der Fritzing-Ansichten (Breadboard-, Schematische und Platinen-Ansicht) Das gesamte Fritzing-Team wird als Jury den Gewinner von 500 Euro küren.
Kriterien sind:
Originality
Simplicity
Fun factor
Usefulness
English version:
Create a give away PCB for our Fritzing-Kits and win 500 Euros cash !
It should be:
interesting
useful
uncomplicated
hyper-lightspeed Turn-Blink-Sound-Noise-Thing’a’Bob which we can ship with our kits.
To participate upload your project as Fritzing file into the Fritzing project gallery till the 11 29 of July (12 o’clock CET). It must be published under Creative Commons License – Share Alike and the tags should contaion the tag »PCBgoodie«.
The completeness of the Fritzing-Views (breadboard, schematic and PCB view) is importand. The whole Fritzing team will elect the winner of 500 Euros!
DE: Der DR-1 ist ein mobiler Wifi-Roboter, der via iOS oder Android gesteuert werden kann. Er verbindet sich mit dem lokalen Netzwerk und hört aufs Wort.
Kickstarte mit.
EN: DR-1 is a wifi enabled mobile robot that you control using your iOS or Android tablet or phone and makes your Arduino projects mobile. Time to kickstart.
DE: Diesen Winter hatte ich die Chance an der FH Potsdam einen Kurs in Physical Computing zu unterrichten. Thema waren Musical Interfaces und ich habe das erste Mal das großartige Teensy-Board in einem Kurs benutzt. Es hat sehr großen Spaß gemacht und die Dokumentationen treffen langsam ein. In den nächsten Wochen werde ich also die Ergebnisse hier vorstellen.
Erstes Ergebnis ist das Little Black Midi von Naomi Knopf. Hier ist die Dokumentation zu finden.
EN: This winter I had the chance to teach Physical Computing at the University of Applied Science in Potsdam. The topic was Musical Interfaces and it was a lot of fun. I used the awesome Teensy board the first time in a course. By now the documentations are done and in the next weeks I will show you the results of the students.
First project is calles «little black midi» from Naomi Knopf. Here you can find the documentation (de).
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