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+# GPS-Tracker
+Project files for a third year university project
+
+
+## Contents
+* Output files stored in GPS-Tracker/Output/ (last generated gerbers, etc)
+* Kicad source files stored in the base directory
+* Last generated PDFs to be stored in GPS-Tracker/pdfs