
Fritzing is an open-source initiative to develop amateur or hobby CAD software for the design of electronics hardware, intended to allow designers and artists to build more permanent circuits from prototypes. It was developed at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Fritzing is free software under the GPL 3.0 or later license, with the source code available on GitHub and the binaries at a monetary cost, which is allowed by the GPL.
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Fritzing is an open-source initiative to develop amateur or hobby CAD software for the design of electronics hardware, intended to allow designers and artists to build more permanent circuits from prototypes. It was developed at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Fritzing is free software under the GPL 3.0 or later license, with the source code available on GitHub and the binaries at a monetary cost, which is allowed by the GPL.
== Goals == thumb|left|Fritzing's schematic view

Welcome to Fritzing
Fritzing is an electronics design and prototyping platform for makers, hobbyists, and educators. Easily create and document your electronic projects.
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The Fritzing application is an Electronic Design Automation software with a low entry barrier, suited for the needs of makers and hobbyists. It offers a unique real-life "breadboard" view, and a parts library with many commonly used high-level components. Fritzing makes it very easy to communicate about circuits, as well as to turn them into PCB layouts ready for production. It is particularly popular among Arduino and Raspberry Pi users, and is widely used in education and creative tinkering. For more information on Fritzing and its related activities, visit There you can also download the latest releases for all platforms and get help on getting started. To report a problem or suggest improvements, use the issue tracker or the user forum. Please provide steps, what operating system you are on, including the version. Add screenshots or copies of error messages, describe what behavior you saw and what you expected. If you would like to help with the development, please take a look at those labels: [![label: easy start][~easy start]]( [![label: challenging start][~challenging start]]( Some of those don't need C++ skills, like reproducing an issue on a certain platform, or verifying translations of languages we don't speak. If there is something for you, you might want to check the developer instructions next. This includes information about how to compile and run the Fritzing app. parts - All the part definitions, including meta data (.fzp) and graphics (.svg), as well as some utility tools. They are kept in a separate repository at and only linked from here. resources - Binaries and definitions that are supposed not to be touched by users, such as fonts, images, special parts, etc. The founding team consists of Prof. Reto Wettach, André Knörig, Jonathan Cohen, and Stefan Hermann. Many fantastic people have contributed to it over the years. Since 2019, the project is maintained by Kjell Morgenstern, with great support from Peter Van Epp, André Knörig, and AISLER. The source code of Fritzing is under GNU GPL v3, the documentation and part designs under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareALike 3.0 Unported. The full texts of these licenses are shipped with this download. This means that you can create your own variation of Fritzing, as long as you credit us and also publish it under GPL. Similarly, you may re-publish our documentation, as long as you credit us, and publish it under the same license. You may publish circuits and diagrams that you create with Fritzing and that use our graphics, again as long as you credit us, and publish your works under the same license. A credit can be as simple as "this image was created with Fritzing."
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