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It's a bit over my head, but the schematic in the readme seems to have a shared ground, with one pin going to the attiny microcontroller, and the other going to a generic power source. With a big warning that your power source needs to be up to spec.


If the connector on the left represents the output of a generic power supply then I still don't see how you would connect this on the laptop side.

EDIT: On further thought I think that connector must be intended to represent the laptop input and Vcc is the output of a generic power supply (with sufficient voltage and current capacity). It was not clear to me because my Dell laptop doesn't appear to have a 3-pin power connector so maybe this only applies to certain models.




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