Blackboard is intended for the hobby enthusiast and should help building prototypes on so called breadboards easily.
Currently BlackBoard provides the following features:
- Create so called breadboards (also stripe or perf boards) easily
- Create simple and easy to read schematics
- NGSpice integration, thus the ability to simulate the current schematic with NGSpice
- A big library of electronic parts with more than 400 pieces and library with 500 symbols
- integrated part and symbol editor
- layer based editing
This is an eclipse project, simply import it into the workspace.
In order to build blackboard, you'll need ANT to be installed. Alternatively you can build it from within eclipse. With ANT you simply change to the BlackBoard directory and type "ant".
Important:
All data is now stored and retrieved from users home directory. Users which use nigthly builds or the sources must copy the directories symbols, models, parts, datasheets and simulators to the folder USER_HOME/.BlackBoard
To get Blackboard running an installed Java Runtime 8 is mandatory. This will change in the near future.
$ git clone git@github.com:mpue/blackboard.git
$ cd blackboard
$ ant
$ cp -R models ~/.BlackBoard
$ cp -R symbols ~/.BlackBoard
$ cp -R parts ~/.BlackBoard
$ cp -R datasheets ~/.BlackBoard
$ cp -R simulators ~/.BlackBoard
$ java -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true -jar dist/lib/BlackBoard.jar
In order to run the simulation, you must run blackboard as Administrator.
Find the german manual here: https://www.pueski.de/bb/doc/