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Is this based on Fritzing (fritzing.org)?
Nope, just a non-free clone with a marketing budget. I must say I'm not sure how to feel watching the maker and hacker culture I love so much having its open heart slowly ripped out.
Also, just because someone starts on this app, doesn't mean they won't move on to something else later.
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Nope, just a non-free clone with a marketing budget. I must say I'm not sure how to feel watching the maker and hacker culture I love so much having its open heart slowly ripped out.
You can look at it as a kind of validation of the community - there's commercial interest in it. Also, just because someone starts on this app, doesn't mean they won't move on to something else later.
No, it doesn't necessarily mean they won't move on to something else later, but they're now living in a universe where it will always be Autodesk's job to make that harder or less obvious to them. By any means available.
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So if it's so random that you can't reliably measure it because it changes every time you plug and unplug the same pin (let alone different pin diameters), how can software hope to model it?
Each time you virtually plug something in the program's breadboard, generate a random number. If the number is lower than a threshold, prevent the connection from working. Change the threshold at every program loading and randomly during use.
Is this based on Fritzing (fritzing.org)?
Nope, just a non-free clone with a marketing budget. I must say I'm not sure how to feel watching the maker and hacker culture I love so much having its open heart slowly ripped out.
With autodesk prices, i can probably buy enough caps and pay someone to solder for me.
What is so bad about "blowing up a capacitor" or "burning yourself with a soldering iron"? Capacitors are a few cents, each. Buy them in bulk and never worry about needing one again. Soldering iron burns are easy to avoid if you have spent any time in a kitchen.
I feel like this is missing a big point. Arduino is the safe, easy entry point to learn electronics. The danger is miniscule, and whatever danger that is there, is part of the learning process. You need this as much as you need a rice-cooker simulator.
For someone who's been looking for an easy point of entry into learning this stuff (me), this looks awesome.
Okay now we need a code debugger with breakpoints. Then, real hardware in the loop!