CircuitLab - online schematic editor & circuit simulator

https://www.circuitlab.com/

by microtherion • 14 years ago

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jopython2• 14 years ago

Wish I had access to this 22 years ago for my electronics degree :(

phodo• 14 years ago

+1, like so many other things these days... access is so critical: a) in a developing country, access = access to education tools (like stanford's online courses, udemy, etc.) b) in developed countries, access = access to tools that can serve as "force multipliers" in terms of enabling creativity, understanding, low cost entrepreneurship

tl;dr: we are living in the Age of Access.

nitrogen• 14 years ago

The next steps are access to capital and access to connections, or innovations that make social connections and large investments obsolete. Places like YC and TechStars help with these for a small subset of the population, so we're off to a decent start.

viraptor2• 14 years ago

Very similar to what MITx 6.002 offers in the lab. Even the interface / interaction is quite similar. Is there any connection between those projects?

compumike4• 14 years ago

(Note: I'm one of the developers of CircuitLab.) We've been in touch with the group at MIT that designed the browser-based circuit simulator for their online 6.002x course, but there is no official relationship between the two projects at this time.

evoxed• 14 years ago

But don't worry, CircuitLab has been very popular with all the 6.002 people in IRC! The MITx interface is not without its share of bugs.

MichailP• 14 years ago

This is an interesting project, however having your simulations and schematics in a cloud does seem a little bit careless for any serious work. It doesn't seem like a real alternative for various version of PSPice and other software. Am I missing something?

davorak• 14 years ago

It is a good educational resource. I know I just taught a one day course in basic circuits and I would have used this instead of SolveElec.

compumike4• 14 years ago

(Note: I'm one of the developers of CircuitLab.) I believe a parallel question would be: are the "serious work" users avoiding cloud-based software such as Google Docs, Dropbox, Github, Basecamp, and even Gmail?

viraptor2• 14 years ago

Where my money depends on it - yes, actually I do avoid them. (apart from github - since they're easy to replace when needed/down) If I can't have a local copy, it's too dangerous.

Still - great for testing stuff out quickly.

josephhardin• 14 years ago

Honestly, somewhat. Dropbox and Gmail are seen as fine with less sharing with the internet and more about just having your personal service online, whereas things like Google Docs and Github less so. Even then, you try to avoid using Gmail to send sensitive material(Not to mention actually sensitive in a legal sense).

kaib• 14 years ago

At Tinkercad, a cloud based solid CAD system, we see "serious work" happening in a cloud environment.

Panoramix• 14 years ago

Absolutely, every place I have ever worked for avoids this kind of things.

bencevans2• 14 years ago

Looks good I've tried a few local application based software applications but this has the feature that they're lacking/not as full as I wish and that's the custom parts.

I havn't been doing anything major, just wanted a PIC board as I have to include on in an AS Level Project.

Brilliant timing cause it's due in in two days and was going to start final diagrams tomorrow. Cheers!

compumike4• 14 years ago

(Note: I'm one of the developers of CircuitLab.) That's the second time we've heard a story like that! The first was from someone on Reddit making a "rage comic" titled "Lab report saved": http://imgur.com/4E8qP from http://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/comments/s3yik/l... Good luck with your project.

bencevans2• 14 years ago

Haha, Brilliant!

dhughes• 14 years ago

Oh the irony, I have to beef up my electronics for work so I blocked Reddit to keep me off it then I see this on HN.

droithomme• 14 years ago

Really nice implementation, excellent work guys.

will_lam• 14 years ago

Interesting. Very similar to another YC company, http://upverter.com though

catch23• 14 years ago

probably less so... upverter won't simulate it. circuit lab does look like a useful tool though -- great way for kids to learn who probably don't have access to pspice or oscilloscopes.

simonbarker87• 14 years ago

I found CircuitLab a few weeks ago and was impressed with it. I have little need to simulate simple circuits with discrete components - what would be amazing is if this could be the start of a system that could include micro controllers - in my dream world these micro controllers would be programmable with the code you would write if you had the physical micro controller and the simulation would allow you to fully prototype an embedded system without having to fight with physical circuit issues (like: oh crap i've put this transistor in the wrong way round - that's why it's not worked for the last hour).

Sadly I don't think this dream solution will ever exist - maybe just for a PIC16F690 or and mbed?

CircuitLab - online schematic editor & circuit simulator

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