Cut Neotrellis board in half

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Cut Neotrellis board in half

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Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on if cutting a netrellis board in half will allow me to create an 8x2 long matrix? Any crazy cooks try something like this?

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Re: Cut Neotrellis board in half

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That would not be a simple task. There are critical components and jumpers located in the middle of the board. And a significant number of traces that cross that area as well. It would require a large amount of post-cutting reconstructive surgery to make it operational.

A better approach would be to re-work the PCB layout and have some custom boards made: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-NeoTrellis-4x4-PCB

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