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A Neotron powered by the Raspberry Pi Pico
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BTX-style variant #154

Open erkinalp opened 1 year ago

erkinalp commented 1 year ago

There were many office PCs in the BTX and microBTX form factors, that have their motherboards failed since. As BTX has the layout reversed, it is incompatible with ATX layout boards. Hence, add a microBTX variant with identical IO capabilities.

thejpster commented 1 year ago

So this raises an interesting question. How does KiCAD handle a design with one schematic but two PCB layouts? Or does a BTX version require schematic changes?

The best way to handle this probably to fork the repo and create a "Neotron Pico BTX". If you have success at building one and can demonstrate it mechanically fits in a BTX case, we can look at moving that repository into this organisation for ongoing maintenance.

erkinalp commented 1 year ago

A BTX version would not require schematic or component selection changes, but would require layout changes.

erkinalp commented 1 year ago

@thejpster assign to me pls

thejpster commented 1 year ago

Any progress with this?

erkinalp commented 1 year ago

Not yet, but I will eventually deal with this. I have been relatively busy recently.