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Unread 09-02-2003, 18:35
Ryan Meador Ryan Meador is offline
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There is one nasty bug... I haven't reported it to parallax because I'm too lazy, but whatever. When using a USB to serial converter dongle, the debug statement on the stamp causes the blue screen of death... I'd never seen XP's version of it before I tried that. So we've been doing all our debugging using LEDs and the user mode! muhahahaha. Still works like a charm. DEBUG is highly overrated. Note that we were able to diagnose a really nasty bug as actually a partially-fried stamp chip, not a software problem.

Also, a very minor, more cosmetic thing relating to this is that it doesn't detect your COM port if it doesn't exist at the time the program starts... so much for hot-swappable USB.
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