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Updated README for v0.3 development

2 oz copper is no longer needed, and neither is a thin board.
Clara Hobbs 7 years ago
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 This is the circuit board for the PD Buddy Sink, a device which aims to make
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 USB Power Delivery accessible to any electronics hobbyist.
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-The board is designed for 2 oz copper.  It's probably best to use a 1.0 or 0.8
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-mm thick PCB to make sure it's possible to solder the USB connector's pins.
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+The board is designed for 1 oz copper on all layers.  1.6 mm thickness should
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+be fine.  Just keep in mind that it isn't possible to assemble the board with a
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+soldering iron anymore!
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 The PCB is made with [KiCad](http://kicad-pcb.org/), so you'll need that if you
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-want to make any changes.
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+want to make any changes.  Several PCB fabricators accept KiCad PCB files
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+directly now, but if you intend to order from one that does not, you'll need
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+KiCad to plot the Gerbers.
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 PD Buddy Sink is Copyright (C) 2017 Clayton G. Hobbs, and made available under
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 the CERN Open Hardware Licence v1.2.  See LICENSE for more information.

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