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Originally posted by Dave Flowerday
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.
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Sorry, I guess I shouldn't have said "no idea". Based on how I saw everything working, I took an educated guess. Probably wasn't the best idea, but since you're supposed to plug computers into the programming port, I just guessed that plugging a computer in would be OK...
Dave's point is definately important: don't go plugging random things in to other random things. Especially if you haven't at least asked people here first.
Again, my apologies. Please note that I do NOT do this kind of thing on a regular basis--the programming port just happened to be a special case. I haven't TOUCHED the tether, or anything else undocumented and never plan on it either. $1145 is a little more than I'm willing to shell out in the name of science.