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W5500 Ethernet breakout: Bob Smith termination and 100Ω pairs CopperPilot Team W5500 Ethernet breakout: Bob Smith termination and 100Ω pairs A small W5500 SPI Ethernet breakout with isolated RJ45 ground, Bob Smith termination, 100-ohm pairs, and thermal vias. An NVIDIA Jetson carrier board, built in KiCad CopperPilot Team An NVIDIA Jetson carrier board, built in KiCad An 8-layer Jetson carrier with 370 footprints, 794 vias, and 48 copper zones, wired, routed, and DRC clean in KiCad. RP2350 with HDMI, WiFi, and battery charging in KiCad CopperPilot Team RP2350 with HDMI, WiFi, and battery charging in KiCad One four-layer RP2350 board with HDMI, WiFi, SD, USB-C, barrel jack, and onboard battery charging, built in KiCad.

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A GPS board with PPS and a backup battery CopperPilot Team A GPS board with PPS and a backup battery A GNSS breakout with a dedicated PPS LED and a backup battery plus protection diode, built end to end in KiCad. W5500 Ethernet breakout: Bob Smith termination and 100Ω pairs CopperPilot Team W5500 Ethernet breakout: Bob Smith termination and 100Ω pairs A small W5500 SPI Ethernet breakout with isolated RJ45 ground, Bob Smith termination, 100-ohm pairs, and thermal vias. An NVIDIA Jetson carrier board, built in KiCad CopperPilot Team An NVIDIA Jetson carrier board, built in KiCad An 8-layer Jetson carrier with 370 footprints, 794 vias, and 48 copper zones, wired, routed, and DRC clean in KiCad. RP2350 with HDMI, WiFi, and battery charging in KiCad CopperPilot Team RP2350 with HDMI, WiFi, and battery charging in KiCad One four-layer RP2350 board with HDMI, WiFi, SD, USB-C, barrel jack, and onboard battery charging, built in KiCad. The smallest ESP32 board CopperPilot could design CopperPilot Team The smallest ESP32 board CopperPilot could design A plain-English prompt produced an ESP32-PICO-MINI-02 board with USB-serial, LDO, and Qwiic, laid out cleanly in KiCad. An MCP23017 I2C GPIO expander, schematic to fab CopperPilot Team An MCP23017 I2C GPIO expander, schematic to fab MCP23017 expander with 3.3V/5V jumper-selectable I2C, daisy-chain connectors, 61 stitching vias, and clean ERC/DRC in KiCad. CopperPilot builds a Raspberry Pi CM5 carrier in KiCad CopperPilot Team CopperPilot builds a Raspberry Pi CM5 carrier in KiCad Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, and USB-C power on a 6-layer CM5 carrier: 158 nets, 9 length-matched differential pairs, in KiCad. CopperPilot builds a PIR sensor board in KiCad CopperPilot Team CopperPilot builds a PIR sensor board in KiCad CopperPilot built a PIR sensor board in KiCad end to end, from pin-level checks to fab-ready output. Light sensor module, built end-to-end in KiCad CopperPilot Team Light sensor module, built end-to-end in KiCad CopperPilot built an LM393 light sensor module in KiCad with full pin-function validation and fabricatable output. A 3.5mm jack breakout, pinout to fab files CopperPilot Team A 3.5mm jack breakout, pinout to fab files CopperPilot built a 3.5mm jack breakout in KiCad from pinout to fabrication outputs with production-grade checks.