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 In addition, we run the [ruff linter](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff) on all python files within the panda repo.
 
-## Hardware
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-Check out the hardware [guide](https://github.com/commaai/panda/blob/master/docs/guide.pdf)
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 ## Licensing
 
 panda software is released under the MIT license unless otherwise specified.
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