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Originally posted by rbayer
While writing RoboCon, I had NO idea what the pinout of the programming port was, so I just plugged it into my computer. It worked just fine.
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Rob, I'm surprised to hear this from you. This is terrible advice to pass on to other teams. Encouraging this kind of "experimenting" will only cause lots of damaged $1500 control systems and $1000+ laptops.
You essentially got lucky because the programming port happens to be a standard RS232 port.
Please everyone,
never just hook up to a port when you don't know what the pins on it do.