From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from snark.thyrsus.com (static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [71.162.243.5]) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACDD0200627 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8DA1F40617; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:26:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:26:08 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: tz Message-ID: <20120312212608.GC17895@thyrsus.com> References: <20120312210345.GC17357@thyrsus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net Subject: Re: [Thumbgps-devel] Build vs. modify vs. what should we be doing anyway? X-BeenThere: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:26:24 -0000 tz : > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Eric S. Raymond 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? -- Eric S. Raymond