Fritzing: Building a sustainable eco-system
Sketching 2011 André Knörig
Fritzing: Building a sustainable eco-system ...around a free tool that no one would pay for
Sketching 2011André Knörig
The original Fritzing vision “From prototype to product”
Started as funded research project at FHP in 2007Awesome team! (excerpt shown here)
Vision fulfilled in 2009 and funding, too :(
Thank you all!This community rocks.
We didn’t want to stop.But how continue?
The FritzingEcosystem
The FritzingEcosystem
Fritzing
The FritzingEcosystem
Fritzing
The FritzingEcosystem
Your Projects
The FritzingEcosystem
Your Projects
Learn
Produce
CreateShare
The FritzingEcosystem
Examples
Breadboard
Code
Schematics
PCB
Exports
Tool
Your Projects
Learn
Produce
CreateShare
What’s newsince Sketching 2009
What’s new
The FritzingEcosystem
Examples
Breadboard
Code
Schematics
PCB
Exports
Tool
Your Projects
Learn
Produce
CreateShare
The FritzingEcosystem
Work-shops
PartCreation
Project Gallery
Friends of Fritzing e.V.
Publications& Talks
Starter KitServices
Project Shop
Fab
Examples
Breadboard
Code
Schematics
PCB
Exports
Tool
Your Projects
Learn
Produce
CreateShare
http://fab.fritzing.org
The FritzingEcosystem
Work-shops
PartCreation
Project Gallery
Friends of Fritzing e.V.
Publications& Talks
Starter KitServices
Project Shop
Fab
Examples
Breadboard
Code
Schematics
PCB
Exports
Tool
Your Projects
Learn
Produce
CreateShare
The FritzingEcosystem
Books
Web Communities
Hardware Producers
External
Manufacturers
Universities& Schools
Work-shops
PartCreation
Project Gallery
Friends of Fritzing e.V.
Publications& Talks
Starter KitServices
Project Shop
Fab
Examples
Breadboard
Code
Schematics
PCB
Exports
Tool
Your Projects
Learn
Produce
CreateShare
The FritzingEcosystem
Books
Web Communities
Hardware Producers
External
Manufacturers
Universities& Schools
Work-shops
PartCreation
Project Gallery
Friends of Fritzing e.V.
Publications& Talks
Starter KitServices
Project Shop
Fab
Examples
Breadboard
Code
Schematics
PCB
Exports
Tool
Your Projects
Learn
Produce
CreateShare
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Some statsas of today
lines of code
downloads every day (~50,000 for v0.5.2)
visitors every day (peaking at 7,000)
countries
workshops & conferences
starter kits sold
68,000
400
2,000
184
45
1,500
What’s next?Some musts and coulds
Clean up
More parts
More learning material
Better website, especially projects & parts
More features:
- ERC to help beginners
- Export to more professional tools
- Support for modular hardware kits (trend?)
Thanks.