so tinkercad has circuit designand arduno now, a real arduino is $20, IDE is free, fritzing is free and does all the exact same layout stuff locally, you save your files and keep them forever.

Offered by Autodesk, Tinkercad is a free online platform you can use to build and test out your Arduino circuits. This way, you can start learning even without the components on hand.

However, [Chuck] shows us in the video below how you can use the same Codeblocks to automate Tinkercad 3D modeling thanks to a beta feature in the software. Think of it as a GUI-based OpenSCAD in ...

There is also a lot more inside Tinkercad — You can create Arduino circuits using it as well as Minecraft models that you can export into the game — but they are beyond the scope of this article.

Think 3-D printing requires specialized software and an MFA? Think again. Tinkercad, the brainchild of former Google engineer Kai Backman, is making 3-D design something anyone can do. Unlike ...