iCircuit 3D

The designer's choice to implement simulated gravity and physics makes for an unnecessarily awkward experience - Components drop from a height and bounce on the table exactly in a way that no sane person would drop components on their work surface. Once the components land then you need to spend a much too long period of time fumbling with 3D graphics to place a component in a position where you can actually connect wires to the correct lead. Another bad example of misguided use of physics is when dealing with motors that you don't have the option to tie down - Once power comes on they will often spin crazily and move your wires and other components. The designers give you several options to control lighting, graphics quality and colors and no way to turn the fake physics off.

I've been playing with this for a couple of days now and this looks like a great tool to teach basic electronics. The 3d graphics are great. There are a couple of problems that if corrected would take this from great to brilliant. It is difficult to zoom in and out which sometimes makes it difficult to make connections especially when using a bread board. You can flip components vertically and horizontally, but it would make it so much better if you could simply rotate them so the pins face the component you're trying to connect with. No double throw relays? It would also be very useful to see voltage and current across components. Raspberry Pi simulation? There are lots of circuit boards but they don't contain any components and no obvious way to add them. I don't want to get too critical, this is a powerful tool as is, but could be soooooo much better with a few enhancements.

I love the original icircuit and 3D is a perfect compliment filled with tons of amazing components to play with and explore even though I am not an electrical engineer. I love the ability to explore and use so many parts! Great work and I can’t wait to build even more amazing creations!