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 I had started wiring together a board for prototyping, but it was destroyed in hurricane Helene. I am now recreating it in schematic form in order to order a PCB.
 
-Prototype 1 is currently in progress. It will be a much simpler system. It will have no MMU, just the CPU, some RAM, some ROM, and the UART.
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+Prototype 1 is currently in progress. It will be a much simpler system. It will have no MMU, just the CPU, some RAM, some ROM, and the UART.
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+## License
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+This project is licensed under the MIT license. This applies to both the hardware (schematics, build of materials, pcb layouts) and documentation. This does *not* apply to the datasheets/ directory. Files in that directory belong to their respective copyright holders.