
Windows tool to test out your electronics ideas – there are free and more advanced versions ($) – “VirtualBreadboard is an easy to simulation and modeling tool that can be used in place of a real breadboard for quickly performing experiments and testing out electronic and microcontroller powered ‘embedded’ applications.” Link.

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A open source Linux program that does all this and much more (including PIC compilation, modeling, and programming) is kTechLab
Any suggestions for Mac?
paulsw: I’ve been able to compile kTechLab on OSX with some patching, but you’ll need KDE. I’ve posted the patch and build instructions for compiling the SVN build to the developers list.
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