Fritzing for Inventors: Take Your Electronics Project from Prototype to Product

CHAPTER 5

Schematic Design

When designing simple projects, or projects that simply add inputs and outputs to a mirocontroller, you can often work directly from the breadboard design. If you work like this, you probably want to stay away from the Schematic tab, because if you look at it, it will probably be a mess with components all over the place.

As soon as projects become just a little bit complex, or you want to share your design with someone, then an easy-to-read schematic is necessary. Once you are familiar with schematic diagrams, you may find it easier to start with a schematic and then move on to the Breadboard view.

Reading Schematic Diagrams

Before we can reasonably expect to draw schematic diagrams, we need to be able to read them ...