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How the Breadboard and Circuit Works. This photo shows the circuit built in this tutorial with the connecting strips of the breadboard that are used by the circuit in blue. The red lead from the battery is joined to the LED via the top horizontal strip of the breadboard. The LED connects to the resistor using a top vertical strip. This interactive program allows you to build virtual circuits on a breadboard for an Arduino UNO. It will help instructors build circuits dynamically during class sessions. Students also can build a virtual circuit before implementing the actual circuit itself. Circuit diagram to stripboard software Reply to Thread. Discussion in 'Electronic Design' started by [email protected], Jul 4, 2006. Search Forums; Recent Posts; Jul 4, 2006 #1. Hi, is there any (preferably free) software to convert relatively simple.
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$begingroup$I'm not familiar with what software is available and cannot recognize the origin of this diagram. Does anyone know what software this is? I'm only guessing that it can perform simulation; it may just be for layout.
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$begingroup$It is most likely Fritzing.
It is an educational free software quite popular among newbies and teachers. It can draw wiring diagrams like the one you posted, or true schematics and even PCB layouts.
It can't simulate the circuit, though.
Breadboard Wiring Diagram
As Felthry and JRE said in comments, using Fritzing is frowned upon on this site and by professional engineers because of the habit of newbies to post wiring diagrams instead of schematics.
A wiring diagram is to a schematic what a sketch of the exterior of a building is to its blueprints. It only gives a very partial and incomplete view of the thing you are going to build. So it is usually quite useless for understanding the real working of a circuit.
Fritzing in itself it is NOT a bad tool for a newbie, if you understand its purpose. It can be used to draw not too terrible schematics and this won't anger people here.
Free Breadboard Software
Just avoid asking questions describing your problem using a wiring diagram instead of a true schematic. Death individual thought patterns remastered rarity. This will rightfully annoy many engineers and even make some of them mad.
It's like a little kid showing his parents a crayon drawing of his electronic toy asking 'how do it work this?'. The parents are probably going to laugh at his naivety with affection. Of course if a teenager or a grown-up shows a wiring diagram to an EE with the same naivety, maybe 'requiring' a coherent answer to his problem, the effect can be drastically different!
BTW, I've seen not many things that make most people here get annoyed so much as seeing a wiring diagram instead of a schematic (You are warned! :-)
Note: although seemingly the same thing, posting a photo of a real breadboard with a real circuit built on it (together with its schematic) will sometimes be useful to diagnose problems related to the actual wiring.
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