I make these a lot. I’ve been experimenting lately by adding dried cranberries and walnuts with 1/2 the chocolate chips. I also use dark brown sugar. Tonight is dried cherry, pecan, chocolate chip.
Dark brown sugar certainly yields a deeper more ripe experience in this case although I feel compelled to assert that walnuts and similar nut species detract from the already ideal texture and sweet/bitter ratio. I've had the most success with peeled almond dust personally. Be mindful of the temperature curve of the solder paste too and the surface mount PCB should emerge from the oven without any damaged components or short circuits.
There are alternatives! Circuit simulation nowadays seems to mostly be based on SPICE derivatives such as PSPICE (licensed), LTSPICE(free!) or the simulator in Altium Designer (licensed). A good quick visualiser for basic circuits can also be found at: falstad.com/circuit I chose KiCad because it allows for simulation with existing PSPICE and LTSPICE models and can also lay out a schematic and PCB at the same time, all while being open source. The results are also somewhat accurate to what I've seen on the real circuit! Perhaps look to LTSPICE for just simulation on it's own, though I can't make a definitive recommendation!
KiCad 6, open source software. Simulator is built in! Symbol libraries (the symbols for schematics within KiCad) may need to be downloaded and installed separately!
