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-Documentation available at [Documentation](https://gitlab.control.lth.se/labdev/LabConnections.jl/blob/master/docs/build/index.html)
+# Welcome to LabConnections.jl - the IO-software part of the LabDev project
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+The goal of this project is to develop a software package in [Julia](https://julialang.org/) 
+for interfacing with lab processes using the [BeagleBone Black Rev C](http://beagleboard.org/) (BBB).
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+The full documentation of the package is available [here](https://gitlab.control.lth.se/labdev/LabConnections.jl/blob/master/docs/build/index.md).
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+## Repository structure
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 # OBS! SPI development
 The SPI development is done in C and in a forked repository, currently