For a certain type of educational endeavor, I'm considering using Fritzing to make some illustrations. Please kill me.

sigh... and they let you teach!

lol

@W5VO There is no LOL

Are they still delaying healthcare?

@W5VO This is for a course I'm developing, and the powers that be want it to be accessible with NO PREREQS, even to non-engineers!! Not quite what I envisioned when I signed on to develop it, but I see their point. Well, I see their point, and the money they're providing to develop it.

@ScottSeidman Fortunately electronics doesn't normally require a few years of learning to get started ;)

@ScottSeidman That doesn't mean you have to stick to the messy look of Fritzing

@W5VO It does not.

I started with 2 hours of training

And then got a blinking LED working with 2 days of wtf

@Asmyldof I think it might be useful as a way to move inexperienced people from drawings to schematics. I see it as a stepping stone, not an end. This will be an online lab course, by the way. Not too many of them out there, and this would be the Sch. of Engineering's first online course! Lot's of eyes are watching.

Perpetuation of horrible ideas for the purpose of easiest one can find is, to me, not an excuse.

I do have to admit I find myself "fck it, I'll do it myself" a lot when I'm teaching

Which I quit

But not for that reason

@Asmyldof I know it does not. This was a major frustration in my undergrad experience.

@W5VO Arguments can be made that more and more these days it doesn't require a lot of learning to get done anymore either

@Asmyldof I had a unique experience with a group of people that ran (what might be now called) a hackerspace for youth.

For some reason they didn't feel it necessary to teach me about Laplace transforms and 3-phase power distribution before handing me a soldering iron.

@W5VO useless