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Originally Posted by marshall
The spartan board is really cool. Can you share how that design came to be and what software you did the PCB layout in?
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We've been designing custom boards since the 2012 season. When the new roboRIO was coming out, we knew we were going to design a board to at least add the gyro. As part of the beta test, 971 also learned about the sensor brownout issues (and had observed them before in previous years). We designed the board in about a month in 2014 during the beta test, and then had one of our local sponsors assemble it during the 2015 season. After a season of use across 5 teams (and an Einstein win with one!), we made some modifications to address issues found. RC offered to help sell it, so here we are.
We used the GEDA tools to design the board under Linux. An older revision of the board design files are publicly available on 971's website.