Reflective physical prototyping through integrated design, test, and analysis
UIST '06 Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists
ScratchR: sharing user-generated programmable media
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Interaction design and children
Hacking, Mashing, Gluing: Understanding Opportunistic Design
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Advanced prototyping with fritzing
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
Second international workshop on organic user interfaces
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
From digital to physical: learning physical computing on interactive surfaces
ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
SketchSpace: designing interactive behaviors with passive materials
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Flow of electrons: an augmented workspace for learning physical computing experientially
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
In at the Deep End: An Activity-Led Introduction to First Year Creative Computing
Computer Graphics Forum
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Today a growing community of DIY-practitioners, artists and designers are using microcontroller-based toolkits to express their concepts for digital artifacts by building them. However, as these prototypes are generally constructed using solder-free technologies, they are often fragile and unreliable. This means a huge burden of care and upkeep for these inventions when they are either exhibited or sold. We present a software application called Fritzing which allows artists, designers and DIY-tinkerers to prepare their hardware inventions for production. Through an interface metaphor based on the typical workflow of the target group, Fritzing has proven its ability to provide useful support in the steps following the invention of an interactive artifact. Fritzing serves also as a tool for documenting these interactive artifacts. As sharing of knowledge has been a driving force within this new DIY-movement, there is a need for a consistent and readable form of documentation which Fritzing can provide. Fritzing has also proven to be a useful tool in teaching electronics to people without an engineering background.