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Rick Christian  wrote:
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>After a few hundred reviews of pages on scroogle, one I found:
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>http://fritzing.org/download/
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>This is some interesdting software, LINUX COMPATIBLE
>
>https://howto-ubuntunew.blogspot.com/2016/08/install-fritzing-093b-electronic.
>html
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>Online PPA and official repos are OUTDATED from 0.6 to 0.85 versions, and
>latest is 0.93

FWIW: I use Fritzing.

Yes, I have read the online document "friends don't let friends use
Fritzing", as well as several others. You should to.

I got into it some 6 years ago when I decided to see what had changed in
PCB design since I last made one, some 25 years prior to that. Fritzing
worked on my desktop while KiCAD didn't (at that time), so I stuck
with it, and now, while I might be inclined to look at KiCAD, I simply
don't have the time or energy - Fritzing does what I need it to do and
I'm happy with that and I've used it to produce a few dozen different
PCBs for various Pi and Arduino projects as well as some custom ATmega
based systems.

It's schematic catpure does leave a lot to be desired - to the extent I
don't use it. If you can put your design on breadboard (or 6) then you might
have
a better chance.

It runs on the Pi too, however I compile it on my Debian x86 desktop to make
sure I have the latest.

>Unforuntately their fab service is in NL, which may work for those outside the
>US...

Fritzing exports Gerbers - which you can use with any fab service that
accepts them. I've used Seeed recently - boards were just fine. Actually,
a month or so ago, I tested their (new) fab (Aisler) against Seeed from
the UK - sent the designs off the same day, picked the cheapest postage -
got 3 boards back from Aisler on the SAME DAY (about 10 days later)
that I got 10 boards back from Seeed - who were a few £ cheaper too.

Gordon

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