BlackBoard is an open source app that helps you design perf-board circuits. It has a schematic editor to layout your design, and an perf-board editor to check if the connections match the schematic.
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BlackBoard is an open source app that helps you design perf-board circuits. It has a schematic editor to layout your design, and an perf-board editor to check if the connections match the schematic.
The download link is: http://blackboard.serverpool.org/Download.html (it just needs a Java runtime)
Great, no english download avaliable.
Can I have some of what you’re smoking? It _is_ in English :-)
An alternative: http://fritzing.org/
Supports breadboards and PCBs.
and more,
http://veecad.com/free.html
http://www.heyrick.co.uk/software/verodes/
abandoned but seem not so bad for some light circuits,
http://www.marlwifi.org.nz/other/stripboard-magic
commercial version,
http://www.abacom-online.de/uk/html/lochmaster.html
Hmmm, at the homepage:
http://blackboard.serverpool.org/Home.html
Google translate says this:
* Breadboard and schematic editor
* Integrated component and icon editor for creating icons and components on the fly
* Component and symbol library with more than 300 different components and symbols
* Editing the layout of the front or rear (mirrored with pads)
* Any number of layers with adjustable transparency
* Generator for schedules
* User-definable platinum background
The video only shows manual board layout for an LED and one resistor. Does this application actually capture a schematic then allow you to route the schematic to a perf-board, then do a rules check? I don’t have time to install and play right now – maybe someone else knows the answers.
Also this looks like although it is Java, it needs a full install in Windows. Any find a way to run this in Windows as a portable application?
There are the *.bin-downloads, which are just zip files. They should run anywhere.
Why is this not around 5 years ago when im dying to debug a reversely connected amp on a perf board??!?!?!?!?
Hi everybody,
I just stumpled upon this site.
I am the author of the program above and should mention a few things:
Although the Blackboard site is in german, the program is translated 100% in english. So if your locale is set to EN, BlackBoard starts in english. If that doesn’t work, simply look inside the BlackBoard.jar (which is actually a zip file) and set the “language” property inside the file “application.properties” to “en” instead of “default”. Hope that helps.
I plan to translate the site too in a few weeks. The latest versions from 1.0 beta to 1.0.rc2 contain a complete Win32 java runtime, so they should run almost on every Windows machine.
For linux you must have a JRE installed. To start the program, run the Linux_start.sh shell script.
Thanks for the update Mattthias, I look forward to v2!
Ah and I forgot:
Blackboard currently does not support any routing from schematic to board, you have to do it by yourself. This feature is scheduled for version 2.0. ;)
woyaodongdongban
Download link is broken
See also http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-gb/app/drawingboard-pro/43d143ca-29e0-4c53-8009-a3d27765c695 – a free windows 8.1 app for designing perfboard/breadboard/veroboard circuits
The author’s site is now at
pueski.de
There’s a new version for Windows there that does seem to run on JRE 1.8.
The splash screem gets stuck on LoadingModule SimulatorProvider. I don’t have any simulators so that would make sense. But otherwise everything does seem to work. I’m happy!
Blackboard source has moved to
https://github.com/mpue/blackboard
abandoned by the author (last update 21 Aug 2015) according to a post at pueski.de