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Re: Db9 port

You should first try to get the camera to respond using LabView (or last year's Java GUI, or a direct serial connection like Hyperterminal). Once you can do that, then you can go on to get it communicating with the Robot Controller.

If your TTL-to-RS232 converter was misconnected in such a way to make it hot, I'd guess it's toast. You can play with the terminal assignment definitions in Kevin's camera code and tell the software to use the program port for its camera communication, but that'll prevent you from simultaneously using the program port for the Bells&Whistles menu communication.