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+# About
+This project will be able to parse `.ibt` files, read live data from races and
+broadcast messages to the service. Its still not very mature at all, but after
+this commit I will turn it into a package instead and give it a stable API.
+Will also put some examples then.
+
+
+## The SDK
+I used various sources to develop and understand how `iRacing` works, and learn
+a lot with it. Once I have matured this project a bit I will document its
+inner workings too.
+
+
+## SharedMem
+I vendored in the code from [hidez8891/shm](https://github.com/hidez8891/shm) 
+since the repo has been archived. I took the opportunity to update some of its
+code.