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Wait what?!! The pico boards will also hold the picos as well?! I was pumped when I thought they'd be two separate entites!? Like the pico to the RS-485 board. But having them combined!! Are you joking. That is so awesome. Because this is for an open-source middleware project (Ninelives) aimed at bringing industrial reliability to commodity hardware, I want to make sure the board is flexible for others who might build it. Here is what would make it perfect: Hybrid Pico Footprint: Is it possible to design the Pico mounting area to accept both? Meaning, pads for surface-mounting the castellated edges, but also standard through-holes so absolute beginners can just solder regular pins if they aren't comfortable with surface mounting? Pico Brownout Detection: Could you add a simple voltage divider connected to GPIO 29 (targeting a 1/3 scale) so the Pico can read its own input voltage and trigger a safe shutdown if power drops below 4.4V? All boards - Mounting Holes: Could I get 4-8 M3 screw holes (plus a tiny bit of clearance) at different positions on the board to give ppl secure mounting options for the machine frame? All boards - Silkscreen Text: Could you add the project title and link to the board's silkscreen? "Meow Turtle -https://github.com/squid-protocol/meow-turtle". And please add "PCB design by: [Your Handle]" so you get full credit in the repo! RP5 HAT dimensions, could we limit the main board chasis footprint to 66 x 91 mm (the case size for a typical RP5 box). It's okay if the rs-485 chips over hang that So let me get clarify for my understanding..this is the first time I've gotten this deep into PCB board design! So.. You are designing chassis type boards. One can accept a Pico 2, 2 RS-485 chips, will have extra connections to the pico 2 + and - to allow for other components to be added for flexibility, a button on GP27 and maybe the other things above. And then there is a chassis like board for the RP5 HAT that will accept 6 RS485 boards? . I didn't know that companies could do such high level assembly for low volume of boards. Thats cool. So I got the RS-485 boards from amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082Y19KV9?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_5 - If I did want to have a company do the full assembly with the all the parts purchased and assembly, would I have to give them more info than this? I'd like to design a system where it's easy for people. Or have I locked myself into a workflow were ppl would need to get the custom PCBs that you are offering and then also purchase these types of boards on their own?