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docs: clarify Cyton marker AUX1 wire format - #337

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The Cyton SDK currently describes marker mode as adding the marker character to the "first AUX byte." In the Cyton library, however, the marker is stored in auxData[0], which is a signed 16-bit short, and raw-AUX serialization writes each AUX value MSB first.

For a positive marker value such as 0x28, AUX1 is 0x0028, so packet bytes 27–28 are serialized as 00 28.

This PR updates only the marker-mode description to distinguish AUX1 (auxData[0]) from the first physical AUX wire byte and to state the packet positions and byte order explicitly. No firmware behavior is changed.

This is intentionally separate from #334, which addresses board-mode response examples rather than AUX1 wire representation.

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