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MXP Breakout Boards

So as many of you have seen, more information was released about the new MXP breakout port on the roboRIO. The way I can see this port being used most often will be purely as a way to access the additional ports provided by it. In order to do this, you would most likely need some sort of breakout board. As many of you may know, getting 1 breakout board manufactured would be either very time consuming (if you did it yourself) or expensive (if you pay for a manufacturer to do it). I wanted to know if any teams would potentially be interested in obtaining breakout boards for the roboRIO (breaking out the PWM pins and the other pins available in such a way they can be used easily). If enough teams are interested, I might order them in bulk and sell them to teams (as to minimize the costs because it's much cheaper to order 100 than 1). Any interest in this?