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MetaMorph Helps non-Engineers Design Circuits (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the another-step-on-the-road-toward-unskilled-labor-replacing-skilled-engineers dept.

MetaMorph grew out of Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems. The introduction video you see here explains and steps you through its basic operation. The second "bonus" video goes a little deeper into the software's function. And the transcript covers everything in both videos, so if you prefer reading to watching you aren't left out -- except for the visual design process walk-through, of course. It's all open source, and their site has free demos available, so if you want to try your hand at designing circuitry with MetaMorph, go right ahead.

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  1. Interesting by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1

    It's a kind of DIY CAD for shields/hats.

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  2. What transcript? by ItsJustAPseudonym · · Score: 1

    Link to the transcript?

    1. Re:What transcript? by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1

      There's a "Hide/Show Transcript" link/toggle below the video and the description. Why there's so much blank space before that link, I have no idea.

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    2. Re:What transcript? by ItsJustAPseudonym · · Score: 1

      Wow, there it is. I had looked all over for it, but just could not see it until you pointed it out. Thanks.

      They could have linked the word "transcript" in the summary to the transcript, but no.

  3. What's in a name by geoskd · · Score: 1

    Given the current state of the world, I think they need a new name. At the very least a new acronym is appropriate...

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  4. Wow. by drolli · · Score: 2

    What are you guys talking about?

    a) Tools which generate schematics from functional descriptions have been around for some time.

    b) Block-level graphical editors for devices have been around for some time

    c) The assumption that the difficult part about engineering an electronic device is drawing the final diagram, is IMHO a complete misunderstanding of the topic. The best we can get from this is the hardware equivalent of the myriad of badly written Javascript and PHP combinations of pseudo-code-moneys who believe that knowing the fundamentals of CompSci is not needed.

    1. Re:Wow. by drolli · · Score: 1

      And these are the kind of circuits i could draw when i was 7 years old.

  5. Please help put Flash down. by danceswithtrees · · Score: 1

    Given the endless stream of vulnerabilities and the treadmill of updating Flash, I decided to uninstall Flash. Given the hate that Adobe/Flash receives on Slashdot, I would imagine that a significant fraction of the Slashdot readership has uninstalled Flash (do you keep statistics on this?).

    Can you please help the web move on from the failed experiment that was Flash?

  6. Shoe is on the other foot. by Circlotron · · Score: 1

    I am an EE. Now I know how real programmers feel when they see my (albeit functional) efforts with Qbasic.