Fritzing: Building a sustainable eco-system

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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

$

$

($)

$

$

$

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.

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