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Picaxe Electronic Bread Board Layout Emulator

Not so much an emulator but a virtual bread board to help you layout more complicated circuits before you cut a wire. It's been written by WestAust55 and is based on Ray Wilson's Virtual Breadboard concept. It can be run online here but may be slow to load based on location:-

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Preference should be given to downloading and installing the Zip file, it'll be much quicker to load:-

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Once unzipped you'll have one HTML file and four folders of images and scripts:-

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PEBBLE.html
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css
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images
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javascript
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support

Simply click on the PEBBLE file to get going. This tool run in your java enabled browser, it's know to run on IE7, Mozilla V3.0.10 and Chrome 2.0.172.33. Changes and addition can be found in the PEBBLE_Revision.

Browsers need to be tweaked to ensure that your designs are correctly printed. The details for how to do this on Internet Explorer and Mozilla can be found here:- PEBBLE Printing. You might also consider tweaking Internet Explorer to stop it's Security pop-ups from interrupting your use of PEBBLE, the info for this can be found here :- PEBBLE & IE Secuitry.

PEBBLE Image

Down the left hand side are the components that can be dragged and dropped onto the BreadBoard, one you've dragged the basic image you can right click to select the options.

The Save Load button to the bottom left calls up a text box containing the code describing your board. You can either copy the code and save it via a text editor like Notebook or paste and load a circuit designed by others. The example below give the board pictured below:-

IC||604|270|2||U?|||School08M|IC||School08M_2
Wire||692|103|21||11|#FF0000|2|11|||
Wire||692|461|21||11|#000000|2|11|||
Terminal||681|403|1||TS?||3|4|Gnd . . SI . . SO||terminal_431
Wire||667|377|11||11|#CC6633|3|11|||
Resistor|22000|669|237|1|Resistor|R?||1||IC||
Resistor|10000|716|272|2|Resistor|R?||2||IC||
BREADBOARDSTYLE=BB3

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