Brad: a suggestion (perhaps way too late ) on a layout improvement. While testing the part (which looks to now at least be entirely working) I ran across an issue where it is hard to get the wires placed in breadboard (and to some extent in real life as well) on the rgb led connectors. I think the layout change below would improve usability a lot! May or may not be practical to do at this point though. The middle row (the green leds) gets covered by connections to the red and blue making it difficult to change (not impossible, just more difficult than it needs to be).
I was actually going to have that sort of layout originally but then decided against it. But now having played with my prototype and having heard your feedback, I think it would most probably be best to change it to your suggested layout. I could certainly imagine it would be very annoying trying to connect wires using fritzing when the connections are bunched so close together.
Despite the long silence there is in fact progress this project below is the current Fritzing part of this project. It turns out it can’t be a single part (at least not if we want schematic to work at all well) as the subparts code gets very slow with 12 large subparts and won’t coexist with busses (which this needs). Luckily @steelgoose suggested making the breadboard the base part with static images, then locking it and overlaying and locking the other 12 subsystems as individual parts (making them movable in schematic without being subparts) which seems to work. Please have a poke at this and point out any errors or problems you see (I’m sure there are some still ). PCB view is mostly non existent (and not needed) but breadboard and schematic should both work ok.
@vanepp, we’ve finally finished moving house and have now had a good chance to sit down and play with your design.
Everything seems to work really well except I can’t get the breadboard to work at all. That is, it does not detect that any connections have been made - i’ve tried this on both Mac os and Windows 7. Is this working for you?
Good to hear, because I was having some problems with it loading once, and then not being able to find the base on the next load, but I think that was because I was loading alpha5 along with it to copy the schematic, once I saved the old schematic as a pdf and only loaded the new version things seemed to work for me but its good that its working for you too!
) on a layout improvement. While testing the part (which looks to now at least be entirely working) I ran across an issue where it is hard to get the wires placed in breadboard (and to some extent in real life as well) on the rgb led connectors. I think the layout change below would improve usability a lot! May or may not be practical to do at this point though. The middle row (the green leds) gets covered by connections to the red and blue making it difficult to change (not impossible, just more difficult than it needs to be).
