[Thumbgps-devel] Build vs. modify vs. what should we be doing anyway?

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Mar 12 17:26:08 EDT 2012


tz <thomas at mich.com>:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:
> 
> > Reason #2 is that it's probably a single-layer board (can't think of
> > any reason they'd have gone multilayer for a simple interconnect like
> > this).  Which in turn means we may very well be able to
> > reverse-engineer a workable PCB design and parts list just by looking
> > at this thing.
> 
> The board is probably minimum 4 layer.

Crap.  Well, there goes that idea then.  Or are there procedures for
reverse-engineering a multilayer board?
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