{"id":18859,"date":"2017-01-25T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=18859"},"modified":"2022-02-24T12:07:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T20:07:15","slug":"digilent-fritzing-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/digilent-fritzing-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Digilent Fritzing Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite parts about creating a project is that I get to create tutorials. This is in part\u00a0because it allows me to remember what I did (so I can recall\u00a0what I&#8217;ve accomplished and have a reference in case I ever forget how I did it) and because then I get to see people adapting and improving on my projects.<\/p>\n<p>However, one of the huge struggles in documenting electronic projects is photographing your circuits and connections.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18924\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fritzing.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18924 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FYXA53MHVS17SJQ.LARGE_-600x303.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"303\" data-wp-pid=\"18924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FYXA53MHVS17SJQ.LARGE_-600x303.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FYXA53MHVS17SJQ.LARGE_.jpg 753w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of a circuit made in Fritzing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Luckily, at some point along the way I was shown Fritzing. Fritzing is a donation based software that allows you to easily document your circuit projects. I like Fritzing because it&#8217;s so easy to document in breadboard view. We&#8217;ve created a bunch of Fritzing parts for Digilent parts.<\/p>\n<p>We have created over 60 Fritzing parts for our Pmods, so that you can add a large variety of sensors, converters and IO to your projects.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18915\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-modules\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18915 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pmods-600x443.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"443\" data-wp-pid=\"18915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pmods-600x443.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pmods-768x567.png 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pmods-1024x756.png 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pmods-800x591.png 800w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pmods.png 1341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small selection of the Pmods available on Fritzing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">We also created a selection of Fritzing parts for our microcontroller boards.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18916\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/embedded-processors\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18916 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chipkit-582x600.png\" width=\"582\" height=\"600\" data-wp-pid=\"18916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chipkit-582x600.png 582w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chipkit-768x792.png 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chipkit-992x1024.png 992w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chipkit-800x825.png 800w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chipkit.png 1794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selection of the PIC 32 microcontrollers, available in Fritzing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">As well as some NI Adapter boards.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18918\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18918 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NI_adapters-387x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"600\" data-wp-pid=\"18918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NI_adapters-387x600.png 387w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NI_adapters-768x1191.png 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NI_adapters-660x1024.png 660w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NI_adapters-774x1200.png 774w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NI_adapters.png 1863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of the NI Adapter boards in Fritzing, the myProto and myDAQ.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">And last but certainly not least, the Analog Discovery 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18921\" style=\"width: 556px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/analog-discovery-2-100msps-usb-oscilloscope-logic-analyzer-and-variable-power-supply\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18921 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AnalogDiscovery-556x600.png\" width=\"556\" height=\"600\" data-wp-pid=\"18921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AnalogDiscovery-556x600.png 556w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AnalogDiscovery-768x828.png 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AnalogDiscovery-800x863.png 800w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AnalogDiscovery.png 882w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Analog Discovery 2 Fritzing Part. You&#8217;ll notice the flywires are missing. But don&#8217;t worry, we will add that later on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The best place to find the Fritzing parts we&#8217;ve created is on our Wiki, located\u00a0on each product&#8217;s documentation page. So if I want the Fritzing Part for the Analog Discovery 2, I go to the Wiki, click on Analog Discovery 2 and find the Fritzing part link.<\/p>\n<p>Specific to the Analog Discovery 2 I&#8217;ve added a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/How-to-Create-Graphical-Images-With-the-Analog-Dis\/\">Fritzing project<\/a> that contains the part and all the wires. That way whenever you want to use the part you don&#8217;t have to create and change the color of every single wire. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/How-to-Create-Graphical-Images-With-the-Analog-Dis\/\">Just open the project, and add your other components<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18919\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/How-to-Create-Graphical-Images-With-the-Analog-Dis\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18919 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AnalogDiscovery_withwires-600x570.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"570\" data-wp-pid=\"18919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AnalogDiscovery_withwires-600x570.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AnalogDiscovery_withwires-768x730.png 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AnalogDiscovery_withwires-1024x973.png 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AnalogDiscovery_withwires-800x760.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Analog Discovery 2 Fritzing part. Fritzing offers dashed wires so every channel can be represented.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t see a Fritzing part for a product you like, we&#8217;ve created<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Fritzing-Tutorials\/\"> several tutorials<\/a> on how to create you own parts. And of course we always want your feedback on what you like to use!<\/p>\n<p>Continue to follow the Digilent blog as new parts, and new tutorials will always be announced here.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-18859 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='18859' data-nonce='8896bc70a6' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-18859 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-18859 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='18859' data-nonce='8896bc70a6' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-18859 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-18859 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take your learning and documentation to the next level with custom Digilent Fritzing parts, ideal for visual representation of circuits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":18915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4312,1563],"tags":[1736],"ppma_author":[4466],"class_list":["post-18859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usb-scopes-analyzers-generators","category-guide","tag-analog-discovery-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Pmods.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4466,"user_id":18,"is_guest":0,"slug":"kaitlyn","display_name":"Kaitlyn Franz","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9276021eaa44781ce19f364cfca46ada25e1500769cf4803a095a5bae83c912a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28920,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859\/revisions\/28920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18859"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=18859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}