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BTX-style variant

Open erkinalp opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

There were many office PCs in the BTX and microBTX form factors, that have their motherboards failed since. As BTX has the layout reversed, it is incompatible with ATX layout boards. Hence, add a microBTX variant with identical IO capabilities.

erkinalp avatar Dec 02 '22 09:12 erkinalp

So this raises an interesting question. How does KiCAD handle a design with one schematic but two PCB layouts? Or does a BTX version require schematic changes?

The best way to handle this probably to fork the repo and create a "Neotron Pico BTX". If you have success at building one and can demonstrate it mechanically fits in a BTX case, we can look at moving that repository into this organisation for ongoing maintenance.

thejpster avatar Dec 03 '22 11:12 thejpster

A BTX version would not require schematic or component selection changes, but would require layout changes.

erkinalp avatar Dec 03 '22 11:12 erkinalp

@thejpster assign to me pls

erkinalp avatar Dec 04 '22 06:12 erkinalp

Any progress with this?

thejpster avatar Apr 30 '23 13:04 thejpster

Not yet, but I will eventually deal with this. I have been relatively busy recently.

erkinalp avatar Apr 30 '23 14:04 erkinalp