What you’ll read in this post:
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For whom this post is dedicated.
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Tinkercad as Arduino Simulation platform – What is Tinkercad
- Why you want to embed Tinkercad simulation inside your website or
Arduino article.
- Step
by Step guide to embedding Tinkercad inside your website or post.
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Benefits of having your own website over free articles, blogging or social
platforms.
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Quick guide to starting your own website in easy steps.
For whom this post is dedicated.
This
post is directed to Arduino content creators and publishers. But that doesn’t
mean that you must own a website to create or write an article.
You
may want to share your Arduino progress or an idea with the world.
So,
you can do that with a DIY Do-It-Yourself community like projecthub.Arduino.com,
instructables.com, Hackster.com or makezine.com.
You
can also share what you make on blogging platform like blogger or free WordPress.
Or you can just post it on a Facebook page.
But
it’s always way more beyond recommended that you have your own website from the
beginning on which you can post and share your own Arduino creations and
projects.
In
this way you can start to build your own audience and connect with them. That’s
how you can build your own community and like-minded group of people.
Tinkercad as Arduino Simulation platform – What is Tinkercad?
Autodesk
Tinkercad is community designing platform. You can both design your own 3D
shapes and models and you can also explore many other projects and models from
people all around the world.
Tinkercad
also is used to design and simulate electronic circuits. You can also design
your own circuits or you can see all projects from people who share their
projects.
When
mentioning electronic circuits, we now all know the power of computing and
embedded systems and of course Arduino as a simple and easy platform.
In
Tinkercad, you can design, write code and simulate Arduino projects and also
share your project and let others copy, simulate and edit your projects as you
can also do with all projects on the platform.
You
can find great illustrations of Arduino and other electronic components with
easy connections. You can find some software libraries for Arduino.
You
can edit and compile software and you can simulate the circuit before you build
the real one.
Why you want to embed Tinkercad
simulation inside your website or Arduino article
When you make a project and you want to show your audience in your
website you need some points.
First, you need to give them the circuit schematics in order they
can duplicate it. And then you need to give them the code that runs the circuit
in neat and downloadable view.
That can be enough for any ordinary website to give their audience
all the data need to duplicate the project.
But the third thing Tinkercad can give your audience is the ability
to play, edit and simulate the circuit on your website before they even build
them or simulate them on Tinkercad or any other simulator themselves.
They can actually see, feel and test the circuit on your website
without going anywhere.
Imagine what they can do and then love your website or article for
doing so.
Step by Step guide to embedding Tinkercad inside your website or
post.
So
here is how we can put a live interactive Tinkercad Arduino simulation inside
our web page.
First,
we start by going to the Tinkercad.com website.
Login
to access all circuit simulations.
Go
to circuits.
Browse
all circuits and choose which one you want to include.
This
circuit might be one of your circuits and also may be one of someone else’s
circuits.
As
you might already know that Tinkercad is a collaborative website where people
put their own circuits and share them with others so they can access them and
copy both hardware components and software code.
Click
on the circuit you choose and then click embed.
You
get a snippet of HTML code inside a text box.
Copy
that code.
The
next step depends on which type of website you are using.
You
may be using free blogging platforms, something like Blogger.com or
something more advanced like WordPress website.
Anyway,
you need to get to access where you can edit the HTML code of your
webpage, and then paste the snippet of code you’ve just copied from Tinkercad.
That’s
it. You can now return to the normal editing page of your website and then it
might take some seconds for the embedded interactive model to appear inside
your webpage.
To
make sure that everything is setup well, go to preview your page and see the
results.
If
everything goes OK, you can see the Tinkercad circuit inside your page and you
can change components and connections. You can also open the code and edit it.
And you can also click Simulate and see the circuit in action.
Congratulations!!!
Benefits of having your own website over free articles, blogging or
social platforms.
Here
some other thing that you might consider as a content creator.
You
can write and share Arduino projects on website like instructables.com
or Projecthub.Arduino.com.
That’s
completely good and helps you get noticed in the maker world. But you also need
to have your own website where you can put all your work in one place where
people get in touch with you.
Some
people may consider free blogging platforms like Blogger.com or have
only social platform accounts and that’s fine.
But
as you all know, large companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter
change their policy so frequently.
For
example, the social platform Google Plus has been shut down although many
people have used it and posted many posts on it.
Also
Blogger.com may restrict you for limited number of templates.
Facebook pages might not be seen even having thousands of users who already
LIKED it because of a slight change in Facebook policy.
You
now can see that in all those cases, you don’t have the full freedom of your
website when you put all your work on a free platform or social website.
In
short, all your like and fans belong to the large company that owns the
platform and listen to that company while reading your own content.
Then
you need to do something about that. You need to have your own website and have
your own audience.
You
might think that owning your own website is something hard or expensive, but
that’s not the case.
You
can really setup your own website with your domain name in five minutes. And
then you can add all your articles and creations inside it. And you can have
that for an affordable amount of money too.
Quick guide to starting your own website in easy steps.
Go
to BlueHost and signup for a website with domain name. You can signup and then
choose your domain name later where you can do keyword and name research.
Some
additional features you might be interested in like spam filtering and hiding
your information of your website from being public.
Many
successful websites use BlueHost for hosting. Also, BlueHost comes with the
most used platform on the internet WordPress already installed. You don’t need
to install or setup WordPress. All you have to do is just adding your content and
articles inside it.
