Seeking simple design program

[Ted Kinsman]

I am looking for a new electronics design program with a graphical
interface that would be suitable for high school students.
The program needs to be quite simple as these students have never seen
circuits before. Power supplies, resistors, caps, inductors, meters
are the idea.
In past years we have used electronics workbench, but this program has
been updated to a program too complicated for my students, and the old
version will not run on our new servers.

Any ideas for programs would be welcome.

Please respond to my email, since I do not get a chance to read this
group very offen

Thank you for your time.

Ted

 

[maxfoo]

On 12 May 2004 07:31:59 -0700, ekinsman@rochester.rr.com (Ted Kinsman) wrote:

I am looking for a new electronics design program with a graphical
interface that would be suitable for high school students.
The program needs to be quite simple as these students have never seen
circuits before. Power supplies, resistors, caps, inductors, meters
are the idea.
In past years we have used electronics workbench, but this program has
been updated to a program too complicated for my students, and the old
version will not run on our new servers.

Any ideas for programs would be welcome.

Please respond to my email, since I do not get a chance to read this
group very offen

Thank you for your time.

Ted

maybe LTspice?
http://www.linear.com/software/







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[Kevin Aylward]

Ted Kinsman wrote:

I am looking for a new electronics design program with a graphical
interface that would be suitable for high school students.
The program needs to be quite simple as these students have never seen
circuits before. Power supplies, resistors, caps, inductors, meters
are the idea.
In past years we have used electronics workbench, but this program has
been updated to a program too complicated for my students, and the old
version will not run on our new servers.

Any ideas for programs would be welcome.

Well..I consider my SuperSpice to the easiest spice program in the
universe to use.

I will note that "meters" in spice programs are a cumbersome and not
very useful. Simply moving test points to pins and wires on a schematic
to probe currents and voltages is far easier than wiring up ammeters and
voltmeters.


Kevin Aylward
salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk
http://www.anasoft.co.uk
SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode
Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture,
Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.

 

[Terry Pinnell]

ekinsman@rochester.rr.com (Ted Kinsman) wrote:

See my notes and links to some 60 ECAD programs at
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/ECADList.html

I use CircuitMaker, which I find about the most intuitive I've tried.
There is a limited student version.

Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

 

[Ian Buckner]

"Terry Pinnell" <terrypin@dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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ekinsman@rochester.rr.com (Ted Kinsman) wrote:

See my notes and links to some 60 ECAD programs at
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/ECADList.html

I use CircuitMaker, which I find about the most intuitive I've
tried.
There is a limited student version.

Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

Are you suggesting the OP is a "limited student"?

Regards
Ian

;-)

 

[Terry Pinnell]

ekinsman@rochester.rr.com (Ted Kinsman) wrote:

I am looking for a new electronics design program with a graphical
interface that would be suitable for high school students.
The program needs to be quite simple as these students have never seen
circuits before. Power supplies, resistors, caps, inductors, meters
are the idea.
In past years we have used electronics workbench, but this program has
been updated to a program too complicated for my students, and the old
version will not run on our new servers.

Any ideas for programs would be welcome.

Please respond to my email, since I do not get a chance to read this
group very offen

Thank you for your time.

Ted

Oh, and apart from my earlier reply, another possible might be
Crocodile Clips.

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK